Police on report man was making bombs: âHindsight is 20/20â By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and HALELUYA HADERO | December 30, 2020 at 4:21 AM CST - Updated December 31 at 2:06 AM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) â More than a year before Anthony Warner detonated a Christmas Day bomb in downtown Nashville, officers visited his home after his girlfriend told police he was building bombs in a recreational vehicle at his residence, according to documents. But they did not make contact with him, or see inside his RV.
Those revelations, contained in a newly disclosed 2019 incident report, put Nashvilleâs police chief on the defensive Wednesday as he said his officers did nothing wrong and that they had handled the situation properly. He added that other than a 1970s marijuana-related arrest, Warner was âsqueaky clean.â
Ms. Perry “made statements that her boyfriend,” Warner, “was building bombs in the RV trailer at his residence,” reads part of the incident report compiled by police at the time.
The responding officer also reported that Raymond Throckmorton, a lawyer who told police he represented both Ms. Perry and Warner, stated the latter “frequently talks about the military and bomb making.”
Mr. Throckmorton, the officer wrote, “stated that he believes that the suspect [Warner] knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb.”
Nashville police subsequently attempted to speak with Warner at his residence but were unsuccessful, the officer recalled in the report.
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When authorities eventually showed up at Warren’s door no one answered with a subsequent request to search the property denied, The Tennessean reported.
Warner’s
bomb-making then continued unhindered until Christmas morning, when he detonated explosives in the vehicle and leveled a stretch of downtown Nashville.
Girlfriend was concerned about comments Warner made
Records reviewed by the Tennessean show that
Raymond Throckmorton, an attorney for the woman, initially called police and said that Warner’s girlfriend was concerned about comments he had made and didn’t want two guns she said belonged to Warner in her home.
Records say Nashville PD alerted to bomb-making a year before attack
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According to a Metro Nashville Police Department report, officials investigated a report that Anthony Quinn Warner was making explosives more than a year before he detonated a suicide bomb in the city s downtown area last Friday. Photo courtesy Nashville Fire Department | License Photo
Dec. 30 (UPI) The girlfriend of a suicide bomber who detonated his RV in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day alerted police he was making explosives inside the vehicle more than a year before the attack, police records indicate.
The records obtained by The Tennessean and WSMV-TV on Wednesday showed that Anthony Quinn Warner s girlfriend told police in August 2019 that she feared for his safety and that he frequently talks about the military and bomb making.
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The Nashville police chief on Wednesday defended his department s handling of a 2019 complaint from the Christmas Day bomber s girlfriend that he was building bombs more than a year before he conducted the blast that shook the city s downtown.
Anthony Quinn Warner s girlfriend told Nashville police in August 2019 that he was building bombs in the RV trailer at his residence, according to documents obtained by The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Though the report was flagged for local and federal authorities, there appears to have been no action to stop Warner.