Anthony Quinn Warner, person of interest in Nashville bombing, a 'computer geek,' neighbor says

 Nashville man Anthony Quinn Warner is the man or woman of hobby investigators have connected with the Christmas day explosion in downtown Nashville, police leader John Drake showed Sunday.

Warner, 63, is an established Nashvillian who held numerous IT jobs for the duration of his life. Federal government are scouring the town for proof on Warner.

Public information display he had large enjoy with electronics and alarm systems. He lately labored as an unbiased pc technician with the actual property firm Fridrich & Clark.

Federal dealers searched his Antioch domestic and the Fridrich & Clark actual property workplace in Nashville Saturday. Google Street View pics of Warner's domestic display a white RV parked at the back of a wood fence at the property.

A comparable RV became on the middle of the Friday morning blast on Second Avenue in  downtown Nashville. His friends stated seeing the RV at the house for years. 

Police stated the explosion got here from the RV quickly after a speaker gadget broadcast an pressing caution to evacuate the area. Authorities have now no longer diagnosed whose human tissue became observed Friday on the blast site, Darrell DE Busk, a public affairs workplace for the FBI, stated Sunday afternoon. He couldn't offer a time estimate on whilst the outcomes might be available.

“It depends on the lab and the evidence," DE Busk told The Tennessean. “This case is receiving priority.”

Police in the area moments before the blast said the speakers also played the wistful 1963 song "Downtown" by Pegula Clark. The lyric, about going to the city to seek refuge from sadness, echoed down Second Avenue just before the blast: "The lights are much brighter there."

Neighbor: Warner never talked legislative issues; minded his own business and thought about his creatures Steve Schmidt and his significant other have lived close to Warner for more than two decade When Schmidt’s better half moved into the house in 1995, Warner was at that point living nearby. Schmidt portrayed his long-term neighbor as amicable, somebody with whom he would make brief casual banter prior to heading out in different directions.

Fuel your old neighborhood energy and fitting into the narratives that characterize it. He portrayed Warner as "sort of relaxed to the point of, I don't have a clue, I surmise a few people would state he's somewhat odd." "You never observed anybody go back and forth," Schmidt said of Warner's home. "Never observed him go anyplace. Supposedly, he was somewhat of a PC nerd that worked at home." Warner had put lights and surveillance cameras outside his home. Warner would do a ton of work in his yard, a tall radio wire is set noticeably on the house, Schmidt said. Warner fabricated the fence around his yard himself, the neighbor reviewed.

 

The neighbors never discussed legislative issues or religion. Warner never gave any sign of any firmly held philosophy. "I can advise you to the extent legislative issues, he never had any yard signs or banners in his window or anything like that. On the off chance that he had any political convictions he kept, that was something he minded his own business. Schmidt said while the RV had been stopped external the home for quite a long time, a longtime prior, Warner incorporated an entryway in the fence and drove the RV into his yard. "Frankly, we didn't generally give any consideration it was gone until the FBI and ATF appeared," Schmidt said.

 

He and his better half viewed the news Christmas morning as data unfurled about the Second Avenue bombarding. They saw the photographs police delivered of the RV being referred to. That evening, they saw a few vehicles driving all over their road.