Recordings of calls to 911 during the Nashville attack show panic and confusion in the moments before and after the explosion on Christmas morning.
Audio recordings, obtained for the first time by the affiliated FOX 5 news station, provide a glimpse of the terror that surrounded the minutes before the explosion – when a suspicious recreational vehicle started screaming an ad warning people to evacuate and a bomb was going to detonate – and after the explosion.
“There is a sound there that says there is limited time to evacuate this area. There is a big bomb inside this vehicle. It is playing indefinitely outside,” a caller can be heard telling the dispatcher on one of the recordings included in the video. 56 seconds.
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Police discovered the RV parked next to Second Avenue North in downtown Nashville, near an AT&T building, on Friday morning, while investigating a report of gunfire. The trailer started playing the beep before switching to the song “Downtown” by Petula Clark. The bomb detonated at approximately 6:30 am
“There was a big explosion of fire”, you can hear another person who called 911. A different person described the explosion as “like a huge ball of fire”.
There was a big explosion of fire
Dozens of buildings in downtown Nashville were damaged or destroyed and three people were injured in the explosion. The only person who died was the suspect, Anthony Quinn Warner, police said.
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“My entire building has collapsed and is collapsing,” you can hear a terrified woman saying to 911. “The roof is collapsing.”
“Oh my God, this is scary. It looks like something is still on fire,” said another person during the call.
Police officers from the Greater Nashville Police Department were working to evacuate people from the area around the trailer minutes before the explosion. Several officers have already been praised for their work.
However, more than a year before the attack, Warner’s girlfriend told Metro Nashville police that the man was building bombs in a trailer at his home. The police visited Warner’s home, but made no contact with him or saw him inside his trailer.
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Officers were called to Pamela Perry’s Nashville home on August 21, 2019, after a report by her attorney that she was making suicide threats while sitting on the porch with firearms, the police department said in a statement. .
According to the incident report, when the police arrived, the police said she had two pistols unloaded beside her on the porch. She said the guns belonged to “Tony Warner” and that she no longer wanted them at home. Perry, then 62, was taken for a psychological assessment after speaking with mental health professionals.
“During that visit, before leaving for the assessment, Perry told police that his boyfriend was making bombs in a trailer,” the report said.
The report, obtained by the Tennessean, says the police went to Warner’s house, about 1.5 miles away, but he did not answer the door when they repeatedly knocked. They saw the trailer, but it was in a fenced yard and the cops couldn’t see the inside of the vehicle. They also saw several security cameras and wires connected to an alarm signal at the front door.
“They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter their house or fenced property,” said the police statement, adding that supervisors and detectives had been notified.
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Lawyer Raymond Throckmorton told police at the time that he represented Warner and told officers that Warner “often talks about the military and bomb making,” the police report said. Warner “knows what he’s doing and is capable of making a bomb,” said Throckmorton to the officers who responded.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation later announced that Warner’s only arrest was on marijuana-related charges in 1978.
Police have not yet publicly identified the reason for the attack.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.