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FBI and ATF agents search the basement of a home Saturday, Dec. 26 in Nashville, Tenn. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey
A police car drives past the scene of an explosion Saturday, Dec. 26 in Nashville, Tenn. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey
Nashville Police Officer Richard Luellen speaks at a news conference Sunday, Dec. 27 in Nashville, Tenn. Luellen is one of six officers credited with evacuating people before an explosion took place in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey
Nashville Chief of Police John Drake speaks at a news conference Sunday, Dec. 27 in Nashville, Tenn. Drake spoke before five officers told what they experienced when an explosion took place in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning.
A tip, a hat and a pair of gloves led to ID of Nashville bomber Anthony Quinn Warner; motive remains a mystery Mariah Timms, Natalie Neysa Alund and John Bacon, USA TODAY
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A tip, a hat and a pair of gloves provided all the evidence authorities needed to identify the remains of a man they say triggered the bomb that rocked this city and took his own life on Christmas morning.
David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, said Monday that a tip from the public put Anthony Quinn Warner on law enforcement radar and that DNA from gloves and a hat retrieved from a car Warner owned help confirm the identification.
Authorities had assembled on Saturday at Warner s home in Antioch, Tennessee, about 16km southeast of the explosion site. Several neighbours described seeing an RV similar to the one that blew up on Friday morning, in the backyard of the Antioch home in the months before the blast.
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Investigators remove items from the basement of Anthony Warner s home in Antioch, located about 16km southeast of the explosion site. Warner, 63, was not married and rarely ventured from his home, according to neighbours; he lived for years with his parents and then by himself. He once owned an alarm company, and he protected his home with an array of security cameras, rarely returning a neighbourly wave and not responding to an offer of Christmas dinner, neighbours said in interviews.