For a brief moment my heart leapt.
Posted on 12/27/2020 2:59:07 PM PST by BenLurkin
The violent explosion that rocked downtown Nashville, Tenn., on Christmas morning is believed to be a suicide bombing by Anthony Q. Warner, 63, U.S. Attorney Don Cochran said Sunday.
Authorities continue to ask those who knew or encountered the suspect to contact the FBI. The agency is still investigating, but there is no indication that anyone else was involved, Cochran said.
Officials said DNA testing of human remains on the scene matched to Warner. They said no other threats were known against the city but wouldn't comment on possible motives for the bombing.
According to NPR member station WPLN, Warner had owned a home in the suburban Nashville community of Antioch that was searched on Saturday by federal officials.
The investigation into the bombing has brought hundreds of law enforcement personnel — including agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — into the Tennessee capital to comb through the wreckage and investigate more than 500 leads.
The Friday morning blast came from an RV parked outside an AT&T building. No fatalities were reported, but three people were hospitalized for their injuries and dozens of buildings were damaged.
The effects of the blast were still being felt more than 48 hours later. Some police and hospital communications systems are still out in some areas of Tennessee, as well as in neighboring states.
City officials on Sunday credited the city's police officers for their quick work to evacuate the area, averting potential tragedy.
"Their actions saved lives," Mayor John Cooper said. "They may consider what they did was just a regular part of their duties. But we in Nashville know it was extraordinary."
Speaking to reporters Sunday morning, police described the scene they encountered upon responding to a 911 call shortly before the bomb went off that reported shots fired in the area. Soon after officers arrived, a recorded female voice started sounding from the RV, warning it was going to explode. A countdown began.
"At that moment, it felt real," said officer James Wells, who has been with the force for less than two years. Wells said he noticed cameras attached to the RV.
"It felt like whoever was behind it was watching," he recalled. Wells said he looked around to make sure no one was secretly watching them. Mentally, he started preparing for a possible shootout.
"All of the cop lingo that you hear about — the spider senses, about the hair standing up on the back of your neck — all that went through my body," said Wells.
At one point, the RV started playing a recording of the song "Downtown" by Petula Clark. Then it switched back to the countdown, then back to the music. Some of the officers returned to their cars, blocking roads to set up a perimeter. A police sergeant ordered an evacuation, and officers started knocking on doors to get people out.
After knocking on doors, Wells said he went back to his car and pulled it back farther to get out of blast radius. He then got out of his car and started walking toward the RV. Suddenly, Wells said, he heard the voice of God telling him to turn around and check on Officer Amanda Topping, who was by herself on Broadway Street.
"It felt like I only took three steps," Wells said.
Suddenly, the music stopped.
"I just see orange," Wells recalled. "And then I hear a loud boom. And as I'm stumbling — 'cuz it rocked me that hard — I start stumbling, I just tell myself to stay on your feet, stay alive."
Meanwhile, Topping was walking toward Wells. Suddenly, an explosion pierced the calm.
"I just saw the biggest flames I've ever seen," Topping recalled. "I'll never forget the windows shattering after the blast all around me."
"I felt a push," said Officer Michael Sipos. "I was thrown into the trunk, a little bit. I turned around to see a very orange sky, and a lot of smoke." Officer Brenna Hosey said she was knocked to the ground.
Topping felt the wave of heat, she said, motioning to her face. She couldn't see Wells, who was close to the blast. She took off in a sprint, eventually finding Wells, who told her to take out her gun. The two of them grabbed each other and ducked into a doorway to prepare for whatever might happen next.
"It just felt like something out of a movie," Wells recalled. Another officer was yelling at him, asking him to do something — but he had temporary hearing loss from the blast. An ambulance wanted to take him to the hospital, but when Wells learned that three people were injured, he told the paramedics to check on the civilians first.
Wells, who said he's a spiritual person, credited his survival to the voice in his head that told him to walk in the opposite direction.
"That's what saved my life," Wells said. "That's what got me to see my kids and my wife on Christmas. 'Good to see you' has a completely different meaning to me now."
Wells said the experience will tie him to his fellow officers for the rest of their life. After the press conference was over, Wells and Hosey embraced. For several seconds, they stood in silence, simply holding each other.
NPR's John Burnett and Reese Oxner contributed to this report.
Warner told one of his neighbors that people had been trying to break into the RV and that he had recently moved it out of his yard.
“Michelle Swing was a lt more familiar with Warner than we are being told. SHE transferred property to HIM in August of 2019.”
Not exactly.
Warner transferred his own mom’s home to Swing in 2019. Warner’s mom sued Warner over this. Swing, whose relationship with Warner has never been explained, transferred the property back over to Warner’s mom.
Michelle Swing is the mystery in all of this. Warner has transferred two houses to her, his moms in 2019, and his own last month. Swing isn’t talking and no one seems to know how or why he knows her.
Swing is an attractive young woman. My guess is that she was doing the Sugar Baby thing in college and that he was one of her clients. He became obsessed and he wanted their relationship to be more than casual sex for money. That’s why he was giving her houses. She wasn’t interested and when she rebuffed him he got severely depressed. His dramatic exit from life was done for an audience of one.
Tnks
The thing about life, we’re not going to come out of it alive.
My religious convicts can’t include suicide.
So I guess in any given situation, I’d have to suffer along until.
The guy you knew, to bad he didn’t reach out and find a powerful pain relief medication. But he is not suffering anymore.
Or, he could have had a crush on her but the vast age difference and she has a child.
Could be anything I guess.
She moved from Tenn. and went to CA. So she wasn’t around for the last transfer.
ElmerFedGuv sending an RPG to the rigged trailer?
Ofcourse, he did.
Based on prior history, I’d say we wouldn’t get anything out of the gubmit or media.
The whole thing is just another charade to goad us into more ‘security’ & ‘protection’ from the gubmit.
👍
Possibly a missile.
From an email:
Here’s your answer on bomb
AT&T got a contract to do forensic audit on Dominion voting machines and those machines were being moved to Nashville this past week.
The former owner of the AT&T building in Nashville, William Kennard, is a board member for Cerberus Capital Management and AT&T.... He also was Bill Clinton’s FCC chair, and Obama’s Ambassador to the EU.
Dominion voting is owned by Cerberus Capital Management.... Cerberus is run by Staple Street Execs. Joe Bidens Brother in Law, Steven Owens, is the cofounder of Staple Street Execs along with William Kennard (mentioned above).
Super Computer in TN was connected to the AT&T internet in NASHVILLE.... yesterday evening the Cumberland river cooling system was compromised due to internet outage and Supercomputer fried.....
If you don’t know, “Kraken” is a reference to a supercomputer former prosecuter, Sidney Powell, has been talking about.
So, the explosion “just happened” to be at the AT&T location where they “just so happen” to control the cooling system for the super computer and house the dominion voting machines and drives for forensic audit...
Does it make sense now why no lives were lost? Does it make sense now why the FBI task lead couldn’t even put together a coherent sentence in the press conference yesterday? Does it make sense why the mayor was making light of the situation, almost laughing yesterday?
*Still think we are all crazy?
“doing the Sugar Baby thing in college”, maybe she was just one really fine waitress.
Or she’s his daughter. What do we know about Ms Swing’s parentage?
The business with the houses demonstrates that he had difficulty with relationships and did extreme things. I kinda think that if she had a sugar baby history, she would have already been outed by former fellow student sugar babies.
Exactly. How can they say for certain they know who it is via DNA when they haven’t had the time to test it properly. Sounds like the old quote we don’t know who it is but we know it’s not terrorism”.
DNA matching can be done in 90 minutes if you cut to the head of the line. It’s not the process that takes time these days, it’s the backlog.
“I kinda think that if she had a sugar baby history, she would have already been outed by former fellow student sugar babies”
It’s just a girl and a cell phone app. There is no group of fellow sugar babies to know what she’s doing.
Last year college girl Mackenzie Lueck was murdered by a “client” whom she met on Secret Arrangements, one of the original sugar baby apps. No one knew she was doing this and it took police about a week to figure out where she had gone after landing at Salt Lake City airport. Cases like Lueck get solved by examining cell tower data to see where her cell phone went, not by talking other sugar babies. Unless the girl tells other people no one knows.
Especially considering the recorded text-to-voice loudspeaker warnings.
If he wanted to kill himself without endangering others, he could have driven to one of thousands of now deserted business parking lots, and run a hose from the tailpipe into the vehicle.
Lot's of theories bouncing around, some that are just out there, and some which make interesting points. I have no idea what it's all about, but given their track record, whatever the Feds eventually insist will be a big steaming pile of BS.
For a brief moment my heart leapt.
Major Carter. I loved her in that series.
Most girls doing this get introduced to it by a friend. And women talk. Then there all the clients. And classmates who recognized her photo on the app. That stuff is never as secret or secure as its purveyors want you to think.
I still think there might be a blood connection. I find it interesting that the first house was conveyed from the father to the deceased brother to himself and then to Swing and the mother who occupied it was apparently never on the deed. I can’t help but wonder if Swing is an unacknowledged grandchild. I also think there is some facial resemblance.
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