We know this about the Nashville perpetrator – VG

It was early in the morning on Christmas Day when a caravan, playing an audio recording of a female voice urging people to evacuate as a bell rang, was parked on the street in downtown Nashville.

From time to time the Petula Clark song “Downtown” was played.

So narrow.

Inside the completely wrecked caravan, police found the remains of a person, eventually identified as Anthony Quinn Warner. Three passersby were injured. About 40 buildings in downtown Nashville were hit by the blast.

More people would likely have been affected if police officers had not managed to get residents out of the area in time, according to city mayor John Cooper.

No one else suspected

The motorhome was owned by Warner and the FBI says they believe he is behind the bomb. We are probably dealing with a suicide bomber. The police do not suspect that others are involved.

According to police, Warner had never been in the spotlight of the police before. They still trust that Warner is the perpetrator.

– Anthony Quinn Warner is the terrorist. He was present when the bomb exploded, state attorney Don Cochran said at a news conference Sunday night.

There is DNA evidence confirming that the remains found were Warner.

The New York Times reports that Warner recently told an ex-girlfriend that he was terminally ill from cancer. It’s currently unclear if he was really sick, but he should have given him his car anyway. According to the newspaper, he also recently gave up ownership of his home. Everything indicates that the attack may have been planned for some time.

However, what the motive is remains an open question.

“We are looking for one possible motive, and all possible ones,” FBI Agent Doug Korneski said at a press conference last night.

Rumors of paranoid 5G

At the press conference, the police did not want to comment on rumors that Warner has developed paranoia towards 5G phone networks.

The rumors are from Steve Fridrich, who runs a real estate company that Warner sometimes worked for. According to The Guardian, Fridrich has stated that FBI agents asked him about this.

The Daily Mail claims to have sources that this is a theory that the police are working on.

The mayor said in an interview with CBS on Sunday that “it feels like” the blast had a connection to the AT&T building that was hit hard by the bomb. However, he said nothing about the paranoia surrounding 5G.

AT&T is one of the largest telephone companies in the United States. Warner’s father worked for BellSouth, which merged with AT&T in 2006. He died of dementia in 2011.

For the past year, conspiracy theories about the 5G network have been circulating on the internet. In reality, the network, which will provide faster internet on mobile phones, is claimed to be an espionage tool for the “deep state” and used to spread both cancer and coronavirus.

Kept to himself

But while the motive is still unclear, an image of who Anthony Quinn Warner was is beginning to form. CNN has spoken with Steve Schmidt, who has been the 63-year-old neighbor in the Antioch suburb since 2001.

– He has lived there for a long time and somehow kept quiet. We only knew him as Tony. He was kind of a loner, says Schmidt, who in The Guaridan describes Warner as “a computer nerd who worked from home.”

They live in a quiet neighborhood on the outskirts of Nashville, the city of the state of Tennessee, known as the nation’s capital. This is the same place where Warner went to high school in the early 70’s, which may indicate that he has lived in the area for most of his life.

According to the neighbor, Warner had owned the caravan for a long time. Sometimes it was parked in the driveway of his house. Other times in the garden. It must have been there for the last few weeks.

Schmidt tells USA Today that he sometimes had short, perfunctory conversations with Warner. Describes it as friendly. They never talked about politics or religion.

– When it comes to politics, he had never divorced in the garden that showed support for any candidate, says the neighbor.

– Nice person

Steve Fridrich runs a real estate company, which for several years, if necessary, has hired Warner as an IT consultant.

– We knew Tony Warner as a good person, who never showed anything but professional demeanor, Fridrich writes about Warner in a statement to CNN.

It also says that the man now suspected of being behind the bomb in early December had stated that he wanted to withdraw.

– We have not had contact with him since then, Fridrich tells CNN.

According to public documents, Warner is said to have had extensive experience with electronic and alarm systems, USA Today writes. At one point, he ran a company that worked on those things.

The same newspaper writes that he is said to have been involved in a property dispute with his own mother a couple of years ago, after Warner in 2018 had his deceased brother moved into their home.