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DNA tests confirm RV bomber, Anthony Warner, was killed in Christmas Day blast in Nashville, Feds say

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b3232"><strong>The Nashville RV bomber died in Chritmas Day blast&comma; Feds said <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b3232"><strong>Anthony Quinn Warner was RV bomber&comma; killed in Christmas Day blast in Nashville<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b3232">F<strong>ederal officials say DNA test confirms identity of Nashville Christmas bomber <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b3232"><strong>Suspect Anthony Warner&comma; a 63-year-old information-technology contractor&comma; was known to be paranoid that the 5G networks were being used to spy on Americans <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b3232"><strong>Agents on Saturday morning raided Warner’s home in Antioch&comma; where he reportedly kept an RV <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;3b3232"><strong>That RV looked identical to the one that exploded downtown Nashville on Christmas morning<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;Anthony-quinn-Warner-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-365421"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Bombing suspect Anthony Quinn Warner &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; died in the blast in downtown Nashville on Saturday&comma; authorities said<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Tennessee &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;IT geek” behind the Christmas Day bomb blast in Nashville was a chronic loner who built a fence around his home to keep others out&comma; according to a report&period; <br>Authorities said DNA samples confirmed that bombing suspect&comma; Anthony Quinn Warner&comma; 63&comma; died in Friday&&num;8217&semi;s blast&period;<br>The early Christmas morning blast in Nashville caused service outages across the region&comma; including to police departments&comma; emergency services and Nashville International Airport&comma; which temporarily halted flights Christmas Day&period;<br>It also disrupted services in several neighboring states&comma; including Mississippi&comma; Kentucky&comma; Alabama and Georgia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;Nashville-bomb-blast-RV-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-365289"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Surveillance footage shows the recreational vehicle suspected of being used in the Christmas day bombing which was playing &&num;8220&semi;Downtown&&num;8221&semi; by Petula Clark before the blast<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;Aftermath-of-Dec-25-morning-bomb-blast-in-Nashville-TN-7&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-365340" width&equals;"587" height&equals;"320"&sol;><figcaption><strong>The early Christmas morning blast in Nashville caused service outages across the region&comma; including to police departments&comma; emergency services and Nashville International Airport&period; It disrupted services in several neighboring states&comma; including Mississippi&comma; Kentucky&comma; Alabama and Georgia<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Federal agents have been looking into whether Warner&comma; who police confirmed to the Tennessean is the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;person of interest” in the case&comma; was driven by his fears of the powerful 5G networks&period;<br>Agents on Saturday morning raided Warner’s home in Antioch&comma; where he reportedly kept an RV that looked identical to the one that exploded downtown Nashville on Christmas morning&period;<br>Suspect Anthony Warner&comma; an information-technology contractor&comma; was known to be paranoid that the 5G networks were being used to spy on Americans&period;<br>Other conspiracies have tried to link 5G networks to the COVID-19 pandemic&period; This was moreso with Warner&comma; who had increasingly closed himself off prior to the bombing&comma; neighbors revealed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;Anthony-Quinn-Warners-home-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-365276"&sol;><figcaption><strong>According to his neighbors&comma; Just weeks ago&comma; Warner built a gate in the fence&comma; pulled his RV into the driveway&comma; and shut the gate<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;Federal-agents-are-seen-on-Saturday-outside-Anthony-Quinn-Werners-Nashville-home-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-365305"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Federal officials searched Warner’s home on Saturday&comma; according to the Tennessean&period; A Google Street View image from 2019 reportedly shows an RV parked at the property<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Just weeks ago&comma; Warner built a gate in the fence&comma; pulled his RV into the driveway&comma; and shut the gate&comma; neighbors said&period;<br>It was the same vehicle authorities said Warner packed with explosives and denoted in the city on Friday&comma; killing himself and injuring three&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You never saw anyone come and go&comma;” neighbor Steve Schmoldt told the Tennessean&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Never saw him go anywhere&period; As far as we knew&comma; he was kind of a computer geek that worked from home&period;”<br>He described his longtime neighbor as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a little odd&period;”<br>Schmoldt said neighbors didn’t even notice when the RV disappeared from Warner’s driveway&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;To be honest&comma; we didn’t really pay any attention… it was gone until the FBI and ATF showed up&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;John-Cooper-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-365425"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Nashville’s mayor said Sunday that the city’s Christmas blast appeared to be an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;infrastructure attack” on the AT&amp&semi;T building there — amid reports the suspect was paranoid about 5G networks spying on Americans<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The 6&colon;30 a&period;m&period; blast outside a Nashville AT&amp&semi;T facility damaged 41 buildings and caused a massive disruption to communications systems that even blacked out 911 centers in surrounding counties&comma; the Tennessean said&period;<br>Warner grew up in Antioch outside of Nashville&comma; and graduated from Antioch High School in the mid-1970s&comma; and began working IT jobs in the area&comma; the report said&period;<br>He had one run-in with the law in 1978&comma; when he was charged with felony drug possession and was sentenced to two years of probation&period;<br>High school golf coach Charlie Bozman&comma; for whom Warner played&comma; recalled him as a quiet and unassuming student&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What I can remember about him was essentially three things&colon; quiet&comma; polite&comma; and — I don’t like to use the term — but quite frankly nerdish&comma;” Bozman said&period;<br>But in recent weeks Warner seemed to be settling accounts&period;<br>Property records show that Warner transferred ownership of his longtime home to a California woman the day before Thanksgiving&period;<br>The tech expert is believed by authorities to have previously had a relationship with Swing’s mother&comma; according to the report&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;Michelle-Swing-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-365447"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Property records show that Warner transferred ownership of his longtime home to Michelle Swing &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; the day before Thanksgiving<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Anthony Quinn Warner&comma; 63&comma; laid out his plans in a cryptic November letter to Michelle Swing&comma; to whom Warner recently signed over ownership of two homes without any documented exchange of money&period;<br>Warner&comma; who had been working as an IT consultant for a local realty firm&comma; emailed the company’s co-owner earlier this month&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In December he sent us an email saying he’d no longer be working for us&comma;” said Steve Fridrich of Fridrich &amp&semi; Clark Realty&comma; for whom Warner had worked for nearly five years&period; He never gave a reason&period; <br>Police are now questioning acquaintances about reports that Warner feared 5G technology&comma; but have yet to ascribe a motive to the bombing&period;<br>At&amp&semi;T said Sunday that it had made &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;significant progress” restoring much of the downed service&comma; which was largely caused by flooding from emergency sprinklers&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In addition&comma; there is other significant damage to the building from the blast&comma; including to the elevators&comma; some beams&sol;columns&comma; and the building’s façade&comma;” the company said in a statement&period;<br>The mayor said his city was still reeling from the attack&comma; especially given the festive timing&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s so shocking that on Christmas morning&comma; this time of greatest hope&comma; you have a bombing&comma; a deliberate bombing&period; How can this be&quest;” he said on &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Face the Nation&period;”<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And the public&comma; I know&comma; is anxious to try to understand it better&comma;” he said&period;<br>Gov&period; Bill Lee <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;GovBillLee&sol;status&sol;1342852676535652354" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">posting on Twitter<&sol;a>&comma; on Saturday issued an emergency declaration seeking federal aid for businesses impacted by the blast<br>A curfew remained in place until Sunday&comma; although downtown remained restricted&period;<br>On Sunday also&comma; the driver of a box truck playing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;audio similar” to what came from the RV days earlier was detained in Tennessee&comma; according to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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