Tom Lundberg was a teenager in the late 1970’s when he worked under accused Nashville bomber Anthony Quinn Warner, an alarm company technician.
At the time, Lundberg’s father had ACE alarms, a pay-as-you-go commercial and residential burglar system, but was unable to scrap the car. He left a young Lundberg and 20-something “Tony” Warner to run the business, and they led burglary alarm installations and service calls to various sites.
“I worked with Tony as his assistant. I kind of looked at him. He was a kind of hippie. Had long hair, a Magnum, P.I. Mustache, ”Lundberg told the Daily Beast. “He was a smart cock type person. I rode with him every day all day-during the summer, for at least a few years.
Lundberg said Warner did not like the right, liked smoking weeds and claimed he had left the Navy. (It is unclear whether Lundborg was ever in the U.S. Armed Forces, but records show he was arrested in 1978 for possession of marijuana.)
He had previously walked away from Nashville’s main rock station, 103 KDF, and if Warner had found the police officer, he would have been able to break the silence to give a lecture to the teen Lundborg.
“I hate the police. “They’re all corrupt,” Warner would say. “Never trust a cop.”
Lundberg said he spoke to the FBI about Warner as authorities tried to gather the motive for the Christmas Day blast that injured eight people and destroyed several homes. The blast killed 63-year-old Werner.
That early morning, Warner’s reported recreational vehicle exploded after playing a terrifying warning recording: the bomb would go off in 15 minutes. RV also played the 1964 hit “Downtown” by Petula Clark, which opens with the words, “When you’re alone and life makes you lonely / you can always go downtown.”
“He was a little boy, kind of silent, but the girls looked great … my dad going on a bar dive with him. It was popular among the women there, you might say.”
The motive for the bombing is unclear, although investigators are investigating whether Warner bought conspiracy theories about 5G technology about G. Werner parked his RV next to the AT&T building before the explosion.
“It simply came to our notice then. David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, said Monday that as we continue our investigation with all of our partners, there is all this speculation in this situation.
Authorities are also investigating why Warner, who was unmarried and appeared to have no children, moved 29-year-old music executive Mitchell Swing to his two homes in Los Angeles. One quickclaim act was filed on November 25, while the other was in 2019.
A neighbor, Rick Lude Day, told the Associated Press that he and Warner had chatted several days before the bombing, and Loud asked, “Will Santa bring you anything good for Christmas?”
“Oh, yes, Nashville and the world will never forget me,” Warner replied.
Loud said he didn’t think there was anything strange in their conversation and that “nothing about this guy raises a red flag.”
Meanwhile, another neighbor, who refused to identify himself, told a Daily Beast reporter that when Moore was walking around last month, Warner came out of his house to feed him. “My daughter used to tell me she had a claim, ‘I want this bloom.’
Warner was believed to have had dogs, and it is unclear whether he also died in the RV explosion.
“I was shocked,” Lundberg said of Warner’s apparently deliberate bombing. “You wouldn’t expect anyone with common sense to do something unusual. My memories of it are very distant, but still, it was my memories. ”
“It simply came to our notice then. You think he was there to do what he was doing, “added Lundborg, whose family security business is now known as The Simpsiers.
Werner was the only technician at Lundborg, and worked outside the Lundborg family’s residence in Antioch, Tennessee, where Warner attended high school.
“He was a small guy, kind of dumb, but the girls looked nice,” Lundberg said. “My dad used to go bar dive with him. It was popular among the women there, you might say. He didn’t flirt too much, but you could tell he liked it. Lundberg said Werner had a girlfriend at the time.
Lundberg said Werner “betrayed” his parents and started his own alarm company with an ACE client or two. But the business set up, Lundberg said, because it doesn’t have the “personality” to deal with customers.
Lundberg last saw Warner in 2007, when a technician took over IT for a Chevrolet dealership in downtown Nashville.
But more recently, Warner Friedrich and Clark were managing technology for Realty. Business owner Steve Friedrich said he hired Werner as an independent contractor four or five years ago and Werner repaired the firm’s computers and set up machines for new employees.
Friedrich said Warner has other customers in the area but they do not know his name.
“Tony Werner has never been an employee of our company, but from time to time he came to our office to serve our computer. Earlier this month, he advised us that he was retiring and that Friedrich and Clark had no contact with him since. Friedrich said in a text message.
“Knowing that Tony was a suspect in the bombing on 2nd Avenue on Christmas morning, Friedrich and Clark informed the authorities that he had provided IT services to our company. The Tony Werner we know is a nice guy who never exhibited a behavior that was less than professional. “
– With additional report by Steven Haley
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