An explosion linked to an RV sent debris and shattered glass into the streets, and injured three people-Human remains found.
In the year 2020 Nashville has suffered through a tornado, protest that resulted in millions of dollars in damage to Nashville’s city hall which suffered from broken windows and set on fire, mask mandates, area businesses shut down and now a bomb. How much more can Nashville take?
A Nashville surveillance video camera captured the strange audio stating, “All buildings in this area must be evacuated now,” the recording said in a loop just before with the explosion occurred.
Before dawn on Friday, Metro-Nashville police officers received reports of gunfire on Second Avenue, restaurants, businesses and boot shops. Instead of gunfire, they found an R.V., blaring a strange warning that there was a bomb and that bomb would explode in 15 minutes.
When the R.V. did explode it sent billows of smoke above the city and blew out windows in area businesses for several blocks and left three people hospitalized. The latest are reports of human remains found belong to suspected bomber Anthony Warner who was identified as the Nashville RV bombing suspect. He was present when the bomb detonated, authorities said.
“We’ve come to the conclusion that an individual named Anthony Warner is the bomber. He was present when the bomb went off and then he perished,” said Don Cochran, US attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, during a Sunday evening news conference.
DNA taken from the scene was matched to Warner by forensic analysts, said Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch, according the a CNN news report.
The FBI also gathered DNA from Warner’s home, which they began searching Saturday, those sources said.
The Christmas Day bombing remains a mystery, but Mayor John Cooper on Friday said the blast was caused by a “deliberate bomb.” Officials said that three civilians were hospitalized and are in stable condition.