Nashville bombing: girlfriend told police in 2019 that a suicide bomber was building explosives in a trailer, records show

Nashville bombing: girlfriend told police in 2019 that a suicide bomber was building explosives in a trailer, records show

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On August 21, 2019, police received a call from a lawyer representing Pamela Perry, the woman who claimed to be the suicide bomber Anthony Warner, the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement on Tuesday. Her lawyer, Raymond Throckmorton, said she had made “suicide threats to him over the phone”.

When the police arrived, they found two unloaded pistols near Perry, who said they belonged to Warner. She told police officers that she no longer wanted them at home and that Warner was “building bombs in the trailer for her residence,” according to a MNPD “registration” report.

The police also spoke with Throckmorton, who already represented Warner and was also present at Perry’s home. He told authorities that Warner “often talks about the military and bomb making. (Throckmorton) said he believes the suspect knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb,” the report said.

CNN contacted Throckmorton to comment on his account – first reported by the Tennessean – but has not yet received a response.

During several attempts to enter the house, Warner did not open the door for the police, a department statement said, and since there was no evidence of a crime, they had no authority to enter.

The MNPD asked the FBI to check its databases for Warner records and none were found, the FBI confirmed in a statement to CNN.

On Monday, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation director David Rausch said Warner, 63, had not previously been on police radar.

Days left to search the crime scene

The explosion on Friday outside an AT&T broadcast building in Nashville damaged more than 40 buildings and injured at least eight people.

The investigators positively identified Warner by comparing the DNA of the scene with that of gloves and a hat from a vehicle he owned, Rausch said. The reason for the explosion is still unknown.

The blast left historic Nashville Street in disarray, and federal investigators hope it will take until Friday to dig through the rubble and collect all the evidence from the crime scene, officials said on Tuesday.

At the time, FBI and ATF national response teams finished examining half the crime scene and opened it up to city officials for cleaning and security assessment, according to FBI spokesman Jason Pack.

Nashville residents, business owners to retrieve important items and pets from the bomb site on Christmas Day

And while the authorities have a lot of work ahead of them to determine what motivated the destruction, the area began to be opened to almost two dozen business owners and residents in the vicinity of the impact site.

They were escorted by officials to buildings considered structurally safe to retrieve their important items – in some cases, their pets.

For many small business owners affected by the bombing, the damage only adds to the difficulties created by the coronavirus pandemic.

“This year has been difficult,” Pete Gibson, owner of Pride & Glory Tattoo on 2nd Avenue, told CNN. “But right when we have a little light at the end of the tunnel, everything disappears in two seconds.”

CNN’s Raja Razek, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz, Mark Morales, Jamiel Lynch, Hollie SIververman, Eric Levenson, Amir Vera, Kay Jones and Natasha Chen contributed to this report.

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