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Authorities identified 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner as the attacker in the Nashville blast that left three lightly wounded and damaged dozens of buildings.
Donald Q. Cochran, US Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, reported that 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner was identified as the attacker in the Nashville blast. “He was present when the bomb went off and he was killed in the bombing,” Cochran said.
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The explosion left three lightly injured and damaged dozens of buildings when a vehicle exploded early on Christmas Day, minutes after broadcasting a recording urging that the area be evacuated.
Authorities said there was no indication that anyone else was involved in the bombing, and the investigation continued into the possible motives behind it, the New York Times reported Sunday. According to the US newspaper, federal agents searched Warner’s home in Antioch, Tennessee, about 11 miles from the scene of the explosion on Saturday.
“Financial records show that Warner purchased components that could have been used in the pump,” the newspaper’s publication read.
The FBI questioned several Warner acquaintances on Saturday and asked them if they knew that the suspect was afraid of 5G technology, according to several local networks. That would fit in with one of the attacker’s possible motivations: disrupting telecommunications in the area.
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The vehicle exploded in front of an AT&T telecommunications company building, disrupting landline and cell phone service for thousands of people across the state of Tennessee, and in parts of neighboring Kentucky and Alabama.
The six police officers who were in the area when the explosion occurred on Friday spoke with the local press this Sunday and confirmed that, just before the explosion, the song “Downtown” by Petula Clark sounded in the vehicle.
Another suspicious vehicle
The tension continued Sunday when authorities detained the driver of another “suspicious vehicle” outside Nashville, cutting off traffic on a section of the local highway to investigate the matter. That truck had emitted “an audio message similar to that heard before the Nashville Christmas Day explosion,” according to a statement from the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office.
When he played that recording, the truck was parked in front of a grocery store in the town of Walter Hill, Rutherford County, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) from downtown Nashville, the sheriff’s office said.
After playing that recording, the truck drove to the town of Lebanon, in Wilson County, also very close to Nashville, where authorities detained its driver.
The television images this Sunday showed the truck parked on a rural stretch of the road, with no homes around it, and with numerous vehicles from local authorities, the FBI and other agencies blocking the road several meters away.
With information from Efe *
