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He lived quietly and quietly, died in an explosion that shook the entire United States.
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He was a loner, a computer nerd who didn’t feed a fly.
Until he gave away his home and car, washed the trailer, and drove to downtown Nashville early Christmas morning.
To the old percussion “Downtown” with Petula Clark, Anthony Warner, 63, blew himself up and his campervan in an explosion that shook the entire United States.
Why is it a mystery.
He lived a quiet and isolated life in silence, but he left it with an explosion that resonated throughout the world.
It remains a mystery why computer expert Anthony Warner decided to end his life the way he did.
The blast shook several blocks in downtown Nashville, but only one person was killed: himself.
And that was probably how it was planned.
FBI clues
The street where Anthony Warner parked at 1:22 on Christmas Eve, Second Avenue North, is usually full of people, going in and out of shops and restaurants, but Christmas morning was quiet and peaceful.
From the loudspeaker, which was mounted on the caravan, a recorded female voice urged people to leave the area.
Then when the time came, Petula Clark’s old 1964 mega hit “Downtown” thundered between the walls of the house:
“When you are alone and life makes you feel lonely, you can always go downtown …”
“When you are alone and life makes you feel lonely, you can always go to the city …”
That is exactly what Athony Quinn Warner did, and perhaps the choice of the bat he chose to die for is a clue to the FBI in response to the question of why he did what he did.
Photo: AP
Anthony Warner was a lonely computer nerd.
“Quiet, polite and nerdy”
Anthony Warner was alone.
He was not married, had no children, and the neighbors never saw anyone come to visit the speckled brick village in Antioch, a community outside Nashville less than 20 miles from where he decided to fly his RV on the same Christmas Day.
This is where Anthony Warner grew up.
The school photo in the Antioch High School yearbook shows a short teenager with long bangs, glasses and a big smile.
He then played golf on the school team and soccer at home on the plot with his brother.
He was quiet, polite and nerdy.
Introverted and reserved.
And so it is that the neighbors on the street where he lived remember him later in life.
Photo: Police
Anthony Warner i Antioch High School.
Made in the garden
Until his father died in 2011, Anthony Warner lived with his parents in Antioquia, even though he was in his 50s.
After his father’s death, he lived with his mother for a time before moving house, to the speckled brick house, not far from his childhood home.
Here he often worked in the garden and built the fence around the small plot himself.
He rarely left the house and no one came to visit him.
– You never saw anyone go or come or go anywhere. As far as we know, he was some kind of computer nerd who worked at home, Steve Schmoldt, who lived next door to Warner all these years, tells the local Tennessean newspaper.
He describes Anthony Warner as low-key and friendly, although “some would say he’s a little different.”
According to a cousin who had not spoken to him in ten years, most of the family had lost contact with him.
Photo: Mark Humphrey / AP
The house is being investigated by the police after the explosion.
Beloved dogs
His company consisted of dogs. He had several dogs over the years, first two Shetland Sheepdogs, then a larger dog that he adopted.
According to Steve Schmoldt, he took very good care of his dogs, and even built a disabled ramp for them when they got old, so they wouldn’t have to climb the stairs to the house.
Politics or sympathies in one direction or another was never something Anthony Warner discussed with his neighbors, just the weather and the wind and the dogs.
Like his father, he worked in telephony and electronics.
In the 90s he had a company that installed burglar alarms, and at home, around his house, he had installed both lights and surveillance cameras and, next to the house, a large antenna.
He also worked in IT and computers and had contracts with several companies in the Nashville region, for which he worked.
Steve Fridrich, owner of Fridrich & Clark Realty, says that Anthony Warner was hired four to five years ago to manage the company’s IT systems. He fixed computers and made a new one when they hired someone.
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Anthony Warner captured surveillance footage shortly before the event.
Said he had cancer
But, a few months ago, Anthony Warner began to end his life.
He quit his job, gave away his house and car, and began preparing an exit that no one would miss.
Why is it a mystery? No other reason has come up that Anthony Warner simply wanted to kill himself with a real bang.
However, everything seems to be well thought out and carefully planned, including the choice of day and place.
On November 25, the day before Thanksgiving in the US, Anthony Warner gifted his Antioch home to a woman in Los Angeles and wrote to her about the property for $ 0.
The FBI has told him not to speak to the media and therefore it is unclear what his relationship with Warner was.
To his ex-girlfriend, yes, apparently he had one, he told her she had cancer and gave her his car
A few weeks ago, he terminated his contract with Fridrich & Clark Realty.
– In December, he sent us an email and announced that he would no longer work for us, Steve Fridrich tells Tennessean.
He never said why.
Photo: AP
Anthony Warner’s RV.
Filled the caravan with explosives
The only thing that remained was the caravan, a Thor Motor Coach Chateau, which had been parked on the street outside the house for years.
Suddenly, in December of this year, Anthony Warner built a gate in the fence around the house and led the caravan onto the lot.
He told the neighbor across the street that he had moved it because someone was trying to get in.
The truth was probably that he wanted to work with the camper in peace, without prying eyes.
He washed the caravan and filled it with explosives.
He also installed a loudspeaker, which would warn anyone approaching.
On Christmas morning, Anthony Warner entered Second Avenue North unnoticed and parked across the street.
A few hours later, the female voice began to count down, for a quarter of an hour.
During that time, the police managed to alert residents and evacuate people from the area.
At 6:30 on Christmas morning, when the term was over and dawn was breaking, the music began to play and Petula Clark sang “Downtown”:
“The lights are so much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your worries.”
“The lights are much brighter there, you can forget about all your problems, forget about all your worries.”
Then it crashed.
Photo: Andrew Nelles / AP
The scene of the crime after the explosion.
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