Nashville explosion suspect killed instantly – News

“We conclude that an individual named Anthony Warner is the attacker, was present when the bomb exploded and was killed in the blast.US Attorney Don Cochran said at a press conference.

Special agent in charge of the FBI’s office in Memphis, Doug Korneski, said that “there is no indication that other people were involved”, although he added that leads are still pending.

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With the investigation ongoing, authorities said they could not give details of possible motives for the event, but said Warner was not on their radar before the explosion, the news agency reported. . AFP.

Police reportedly identified Warner, 63, on Saturday as a “person of interest” for his alleged connection to the blast, which came from a vehicle parked on a downtown Nashville street that had broadcast a message from alert earlier. to explode.

Officers searched a house in Antioch, a neighborhood in the city area, but at that time they did not want to confirm whether they already had a suspect.

The explosion that occurred around 6:30 a.m. Friday in historic Nashville, the country music capital of the United States, damaged around 40 buildings and injured at least three people, at a time when the area was virtually empty in the early hours of Christmas Day.

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An explosion, described as “intentional” this morning shook the center of #Nashville pic.twitter.com/Fj0ipWwK9f

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Authorities found human tissue at the site of the blast, which Tennessee chief investigator David Roush confirmed to match DNA found in the vehicle used by Warner.

Police said after the explosion that it was an “intentional act,” but the motive remained unclear and FBI behavior analysts were working on the investigation.

The vehicle was parked in front of an AT&T phone company building and caused damage that disrupted telecommunications services in Tennessee as well as parts of Alabama and Kentucky.

AT&T said in a statement that customers in the tri-state were still experiencing outages, more than 48 hours after the explosion.