Downtown Nashville bombed

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They already have "a person of interest" in custody. Even his name is now public: Anthony Quinn Warner. Not to be confused with the actor "Anthony Quinn" who played Zorba the Greek.

A picture was starting to emerge of Warner as an unmarried, childless loner who was self-employed in IT. Over recent years, he lost a father and brother, leaving him with few family members left. A neighbor said he "lived here a long time. He was quiet, kept to himself.”

The man identified as a person of interest in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing gave his house away for nothing a month before the blast, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, signed the property away via a quitclaim deed to Lisa Swing, a 29-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, for $0.00, according to county records. Quinn’s signature does not appear on the November 25th transfer and she told DailyMail.com she knew absolutely nothing about it.

A website named Conan Daily provided the following details of Warner:

He was born on January 17, 1957.
He is 5’5″ tall.
He has one brother and one sister.
He is unmarried.
On January 29, 1978, he was arrested for felony possession of controlled substance in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. He was found guilty on November 8, 1979. Represented by Pat Flynn, he appeared before Judge Raymond Leathers on January 25, 1980.
On November 29, 1993, an explosive handling permit was issued to him in Tennessee and it was scheduled to expire on November 30, 1998.
He has experience with alarms and electronics.
He has been living in a two-story red brick house in the 100 block of Bakertown Road in Antioch, Tennessee since 1995. Among his neighbors was Stephen Stone, who was born in 1959.
Images of his Antioch house captured on Google Maps in May 2019 show a white recreational vehicle parked in the yard, which is surrounded by a wooden fence.
On November 25, 2020, he gave his Antioch house via a quit claim for $0 to Michelle Louise Swing, an unmarried woman born in 1991 and a resident of Los Angeles, California, USA.
At around 6:45 a.m. on December 25, 2020, an RV exploded outside the AT&T transmission building on Second Avenue North in Nashville. The vehicle was similar to the one seen parked outside his Antioch house.
At around 11:00 a.m. on December 26, 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents went to his house in Antioch to investigate whether or not he was the man behind the RV explosion on December 25, 2020 in Nashville.
At around 2:30 p.m. on December 26, 2020, the FBI and ATF agents who entered his Antioch house cleared it and confirmed that no one was inside. The white RV previously parked in the yard was also no longer there.

Another website WanderWoodsAndWater.com provided:



Anthony Quinn Warner appears to be a principal at Custom Alarm Electronics at 3724 Bakertown Rd in Nashville, Tennessee. This business address corresponds to a 2,074 square foot house that sits on a 0.32 acre lot. His residency is 115 Bakertown Rd. in Antioch, TN.

Anthony Quinn Warner is only a person of interest. For an IT specialist, he doesn't seem to have much of an Internet presence. There doesn't even seem to be a photograph of the man on line. He has maintained government permits to allow him to handle explosives. These permits cost around $100 a year to maintain and he has held these permits for a couple decades. Therefore he has expertise in this area and a deep search in his past may show that he is somehow employed in handling explosives.

Latest report suggest Quinn might have committed suicide which could explain the human remains found in the explosion

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasre ... 9a3c924375

It seems a good chance that it was a suicide bombing.

Yeah. Sounds like the poor guy wanted out, and his background in explosives presented him with the means to do it.
Possibly with a bit of a revenge thing going on with AT&T?

Hmm, interesting,
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/c ... 052711001/
Anthony Quinn Warner, self-employed computer guru ID'd as lone Nashville bomber, killed in blast
Natalie Allison
Nashville Tennessean

The suspect behind the Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville has been identified as 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner, authorities confirmed during a press conference Sunday. Police said Warner owned the RV that exploded in downtown Nashville early Friday, and that he died in the blast.

Human tissue was found amongst the debris left behind by the explosion, and DNA examinations of tissue samples by The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and FBI were found to be consistent with Warner. In addition, the Tennessee Highway Patrol uncovered a vehicle identification number from the remains of the RV, which revealed it was registered to Warner.

Police said the RV sounded warnings to evacuate and a 15-minute countdown to clear the area. The voice of the woman on the recording is believed to be a robotic, computerized voice, the sources said. The RV also blasted a song before it detonated, which was identified by law enforcement as "Downtown" by Petula Clark.



The Mayor said the Nashville target may have been the AT&T building.

Source: Nashville bombing suspect Anthony Quinn Warner died in explosion, police confirm

He appeared to destroy the heart of DOWNTOWN Nashville’s tourist scene — an area packed with honky-tonks, restaurants and shops. I wonder if COVID triggered this response.