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Anthony Warner Died In Nashville RV Bombing, Police Chief Said

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by Tyler Durden
Monday, Dec 28, 2020 - 3:45

Update (1944 ET): CBS News has obtained a picture of the Nashville bomber, Anthony Q. Warner. 

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Update (1908 ET): ABC News' Josh Margolin cited multiple law enforcement sources that say 63-year-old Anthony Q. Warner was paranoid over 5G cellular technology and believed in aliens. 

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Update (1748ET): On Sunday evening, AT&T released a statement that said its building on 2nd Avenue in Downtown Nashville sustained "significant damage" in the early hours of Christmas morning. As a result, tens of thousands of customers across the Nashville metro area, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama experienced a loss of communication service(s). 

The AT&T building on 2nd Avenue suffered significant damage in the blast. That facility includes connection points for regional internet services as well as local wireless, internet and video. In the hours that followed the explosion, our local service remained intact through temporary battery power. Unfortunately, a combination of the explosion and resulting water and fire damage took out a number of backup power generators intended to provide power to the batteries. That led to service disruptions across parts of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama. More than 48 hours later, some customers are still experiencing outages. We know it is frustrating and we apologize for the inconvenience. We also thank you for your understanding. -AT&T statement 

Aerial View Of Downtown Nashville Bombing Site

As of Sunday evening, Downdetector shows the AT&T outage still persists across multiple states. 

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Update (1720ET): This evening, at the Metro Nashville Police press conference, authorities have confirmed Tennessee man Anthony Quinn Warner, the suspect who was confirmed today by police as the bomber, perished in the explosion on Christmas morning. 

Authorities said preliminary tests of human remains found at the scene of the bombing in Downtown Nashville were a match to Warner.

The results suggest Warner blew himself up - though a motive has yet to be revealed. 

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Update (1700 ET): Metro Nashville Police is set to hold a press conference at 1700 ET. Law enforcement officials will provide an update on the Christmas Day bombing in Downtown Nashville.

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Update (1609 ET): Hitting the wires Sunday afternoon is a report that Rutherford and Wilson Counties' deputies are investigating a white box truck, parked on Highway 231 South near Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Tennessee, which reportedly played a similar audio recording to the recreational vehicle that exploded in Nashville, according to News Channel 5.

Deputies have closed down the highway and have sent a bomb squad robot to investigate. 

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Metro Nashville Police have confirmed 63-year-old Anthony Q. Warner is a suspect in connection with the Downtown Nashville bombing on Christmas Day. 

Federal agents raided Warner's home on Saturday afternoon. Several neighbors told WaPo that a recreational vehicle, similar to the one that exploded Friday morning, was parked in his backyard for months. 

On Saturday, we quoted CBS' David Begnaud as saying, "one theory investigators are looking at, regarding the Nashville Christmas Day explosion, is the possibility that AT&T may have been the target or some other building or infrastructure in the area of the explosion." 

By late Saturday, local news WSMV News4 reported that "FBI agents spent the days at another location today besides searching the home of Anthony Warner, pursuing tips that he was paranoid about 5g spying on Americans."

During an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning, Nashville Mayor John Cooper said the bombing location suggests Warner intended to attack the AT&T building. He said the city is rushing to protect critical infrastructure in the wake of the attack.

"Those of us in Nashville realize that on Second Avenue, there is a big AT&T facility and the truck was parked adjacent to this large, historic AT&T facility, which happens to be in downtown Nashville," Cooper told CBS. "And to all of us locally, it feels like there has to be some connection with the AT&T facility and the site of the bombing."

He also said that it's "a bit of just local insight in because it's got to have something to do with the infrastructure."

Besides Warner's home, federal agents visited a real estate agency office where he worked on computers. 

According to The Tennessean, Steve Fridrich, owner of Fridrich & Clark Realty in Nashville, said Warner provided his firm with computer consulting services for the last four or five years.

Last month, Warner wrote an email to the realty company that he would no longer be working for them. Fridrich said Warner gave no reason. 

"He seemed very personable to us – this is quite out of character I think," Fridrich told the newspaper.

Nashville Police are expected to hold a press conference around 1700 ET. 

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