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Topline
Longtime Nashville resident Anthony Warner has been identified by officials as the shooter who set off a devastating explosion in downtown Nashville that impacted 40 buildings and sent three people to hospital.
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Key facts
At a news conference Sunday afternoon, FBI Agent Doug Korneski said that Warner had been confirmed to be the person responsible for the Nashville blast through DNA testing of the remains found at the site.
Investigators also recovered parts of a vehicle registered to Warner that were also at the scene, he said.
There is no indication that anyone else was involved in the attack, Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters.
Korneski said Warner’s motives are still unclear and he was unable to confirm whether the incident could be classified as domestic terrorism, which he said must be linked to a specific ideology.
“[Domestic terrorism is] the use of force or violence in furtherance of a policy [or] social ideology. We haven’t linked it to that yet, ”Korneski said.
Officials encouraged anyone with information about Warner or the explosion to send a tip to investigators.
Key Background
Warner had previously been identified as a person of interest in the investigation, and agents searched his home in Antioch, a Nashville neighborhood, on Saturday. The 63-year-old was a computer technician for local businesses and once owned a home security company. Warner’s neighbors described him to the media as the Washington Post as a “loner” who rarely left home. One of Warner’s employers, real estate agent Steve Fridrich, told local television station WSMV that investigators asked him if Warner had paranoia regarding 5G conspiracy theories and if it could be related to the explosion, which occurred. near an AT&T broadcast building. Fridrich said he had never heard Warner mention the conspiracy.
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