Suspect in Nashville explosion died in blast: US officers

The man believed to be accountable for the Christmas Day bombing that tore via downtown Nashville blew himself up within the explosion, and seems to have acted alone, federal officers stated.
Investigators used DNA and different proof to hyperlink the person, recognized as Anthony Quinn Warner, to the mysterious explosion however stated they haven’t decided a motive.
The officers have acquired a whole lot of ideas and leads, however have concluded that nobody apart from Warner is believed to have been concerned within the early morning explosion that broken dozens of buildings.
“We’re still following leads, but right now there is no indication that any other persons were involved,” Douglas Korneski, particular agent accountable for the FBI’s Memphis discipline workplace, stated on Sunday.
“We’ve reviewed hours of security video surrounding the recreation vehicle. We saw no other people involved,” Korneski stated.
In publicly figuring out the suspect and his destiny, officers disclosed a serious breakthrough of their investigation whilst they acknowledged the lingering thriller behind the explosion, which passed off on a vacation morning effectively earlier than downtown streets had been bustling with exercise and was accompanied by a recorded announcement warning anybody close by {that a} bomb would quickly detonate.
No motive was disclosed by investigators nor was it revealed why Warner had chosen the actual location for the bombing, which broken an AT&T constructing and has continued to wreak havoc on cellphone service and police and hospital communications in a number of Southern states as the corporate labored to revive service.
Warner, who public data present had expertise with electronics and alarms and who had additionally labored as a pc marketing consultant for a Nashville realtor, had been linked to the bombing since not less than Saturday when federal and native investigators converged on a house in suburban Nashville linked to him.
Federal brokers might be seen trying across the property, looking the house and the yard.
A Google Maps picture captured in May 2019 had proven an RV just like the one which exploded parked within the yard, however it was not on the property on Saturday, based on an Associated Press reporter on the scene.
On Sunday morning, police formally named Warner as being beneath investigation.
The officers stated their identification of Warner concerned a number of key items of proof, together with DNA discovered on the explosion web site.
Investigators from the Tennessee Highway Patrol additionally recovered components from the leisure automobile the place the bomb was detonated among the many wreckage from the blast, and had been capable of hyperlink the automobile identification quantity to an RV that was registered to Warner, they stated.