Whatever you say, whackadoo.
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.
And how did they know to go search that house if the purpose of the DNA was to match it to him? There doesn’t appear to be anything left of the RV/van to find a VIN or a license plate ID him to go look at his house.
It is also quite feasible that one of the LE had the presence of mind to note a license plate on the vehicle if he had not removed it. If there was no license plate, then it is possible that they did a data search for the type and color of the van and if only a handful of those showed up in the data base then they could quickly discover who still had their vans intact and who did not.
Whatever you say, whackadoo.
:P
-5 for copying.
And not a single picture
Yeah, pizza delivery guy. I thought it was a timed bomb. Sat pleading with Philly cops that he only had X minutes and help get it off him. Sad story.
Your link didn’t work
I think you’re on to something.
Mr. Warner must have been thinking of doing something for a long time, as he transferred property to a young lady.
Depression and loneliness is like poison.
NPR posted about a spiritual mooment saving an officer?
I can’t imagine a depression that would make me so self-centered that I’d put my elderly mother and a lot of complete strangers through this hell.
He could have just taken a gun out into the woods and offed himself. I knew a guy who did that. He didn’t want to bear any more of a cancer that had become unbearable; so he took two guns (everyone assumed it was in case one jammed) far out into a pit on his land, and efficiently removed himself from his suffering. Nobody blamed him.
They got a cheek swab from his mother.
You have a keen sense of visual perception.
The blasts, there were more than one, indeed show Egress from the damaged area, not ingress.
Which means there were detonations Inside that area.
Regards
Fast forward to the 6:18 mark. Let me know what you think.
Apparently they can do it in 90 minutes now.
Very valid question
How long does it take to get DNA match verification.
Very good question indeed.
90 minutes
Freepers love to talk clever
You on the other hand stuck in what was always my big and fav city as I grew up in Jackson up Hwy 51
Have common sense
A high IQ nutter with a wry explosive wit about him channeling Petula kills himself in a grand narcissistic way
It’s not terribly difficult to figure
Thank you for that info
Regards
Good question. I have almost gotten to the point, that I don’t believe anything the government says. If this dude was ANTIFA or BLM, do you think the government would tell us about it?
“How did they match it to his DNA so fast, did they already have a sample?”
An earlier article said that his mother had provided a sample. They probably lifted some from his house as well. Pieces of what appeared to be human remains were reported at the blast scene right away.
His mother sued Warner last year in a dispute over the house that she lives in. He either owned it, or claimed to own it, and he quit claimed it to the young Nashville woman who now lives in California, Michelle Swing. The same young woman that he quit claimed his own house to last month.
Anyway, the 2019 dispute with his mother ended when Michelle Swing quit claimed the mom’s house back to Warner’s mother. Why he quit claims houses to this young woman is still a mystery, as is how he knows her.
I’m waiting for the conspiracy lovers to decide that mom was still pissed at him, and that she dispatched him and blew him up in his RV.
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