- An August 2019 police report discovered by The Tennessean found that the alleged Nashville bomber’s girlfriend, Anthony Quinn Warner, had told authorities she believed he was making a bomb in his trailer.
- Nashville police visited Warner’s property at the time, but did not find him at home. They watched the trailer in their backyard, but were unable to see it inside.
- The police conducted an inquiry into Warner with the FBI and the Department of Defense after the visit, but both organizations said they had no record of him.
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Nashville’s alleged suicide bomber’s girlfriend, Anthony Quinn Warner, spoke to the police more than sixteen months ago about her boyfriend, according to new documents obtained by The Tennesseean.
Tennesseean discovered a report by the Nashville Metro Police Department in April 2019 in which Warner’s girlfriend, who was not identified, told police she was “building bombs in her home trailer”.
Police were called to his girlfriend’s home in Antioch, Tennessee, after his lawyer, Raymond Throckmorton III, was concerned by the comments she made. Throckmorton had previously served as a lawyer for Warner in a civil matter, but did not represent him in August 2019. According to documents seen by The Tennesseean, he told officers at the time that Warner “often talks about the military and bomb making “, and” knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb. “
After speaking with Throckmorton and Warner’s girlfriend, the police stopped at Warner’s home on Bakertown Lane and observed a trailer in their backyard. According to the report seen by the Tennessean, he was surrounded and the officers failed to see what was happening. They noticed that he was surrounded by “several security cameras and wires connected to a[n] alarm signal at the front door. “
According to The New York Times, an incident report and an investigation into Warner were forwarded to the FBI and the Department of Defense. Both organizations reported that they had no Warner records.
Authorities are still speculating on what motivated Warner, but David B. Rausch, the director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, told The TODAY Show on Monday, “it appears that the intention was more destruction than death. “
Warner was the only victim in the explosion, although several people reported injuries.
Rausch insisted that Warner had not previously been investigated by the agency.
“He was not on our radar,” he said to “TODAY”. “He was not someone identified as a person of interest to the agency. Therefore, we did not know this individual until the incident.”
“It’s pretty obvious to me that someone didn’t do what they were supposed to do,” Throckmorton told News Channel 5.
The bomb blast was captured in a police body camera on Christmas morning by several police officers who were called to the scene.
“It looked like a great accessory for a movie scene, all the windows breaking at once,” said police officer Amanda Topping at a news conference on Sunday.
The RV explosion occurred outside an AT&T facility and caused damage to more than 40 buildings.