They are heroes : 6 Nashville police officers evacuated residents moments before RV exploded Share Updated: 5:14 PM EST Dec 27, 2020 By Travis Caldwell, Eric Levenson and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN They are heroes : 6 Nashville police officers evacuated residents moments before RV exploded Share Updated: 5:14 PM EST Dec 27, 2020
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Show Transcript they didn t think about protecting themselves. They thought about the citizens of Nashville and protecting them. The initial 911 call was for shots fired but responding. Officers quickly realized the threat was an RV park nearby playing a recorded warning. You conserve this message, Theo. Officers quickly sealed off the area and evacuated nearby residential buildings between myself and all the other officers knocking on doors. I think we made contact with six or seven families. Um, inform them. The native exit the building. But outside on the street, authorities say, the loudspeaker o
US Attorney: Suspect in downtown Nashville bombing died in blast
Federal investigators are asking anyone with info about Anthony Quinn Warner, the man believed to be responsible for the Nashville bombing, to call an FBI tip line. Author: KIMBERLEE KRUESI (MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press) Published: 1:59 PM EST December 27, 2020 Updated: 11:02 PM EST December 27, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. The man believed to be responsible for the Christmas Day bombing that tore through downtown Nashville blew himself up in the explosion, and appears to have acted alone, federal officials said Sunday.
Investigators used DNA and other evidence to link the man, identified as Anthony Quinn Warner, to the mysterious explosion but said they have not determined a motive. Officials have received hundreds of tips and leads, but have concluded that no one other than Warner is believed to have been involved in the early morning explosion t
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.
Anthony Warner was RV bomber, killed in Christmas Day blast in Nashville, federal officials say Peter Sblendorio
A man believed to have acted alone in the explosion of a bomb inside an RV in Nashville early Christmas morning was killed in the blast, federal authorities said Sunday.
The man was identified as Anthony Quinn Warner after officials connected him to the incident through evidence that included a DNA match.
“We’re still following leads, but right now there is no indication that any other persons were involved,” FBI special agent Douglas Korneski. “We’ve reviewed hours of security video surrounding the recreation vehicle. We saw no other people involved.”