▲ Camping vehicles suspected of being used in an explosion
A suspect in a vehicle explosion in the middle of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, which shook Christmas morning in the United States, committed self-destruction at the scene, and investigation results were revealed on the 27th (local time).
According to the Associated Press, the investigative authorities pointed out Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, who lives in Nashville as a suspect and searched his home the day before. Has confirmed.
It was also found that the camping vehicle (RV) used in the incident was the same as the RV’s vehicle number registered by Warner.
“There is no evidence that anyone other than Warner was involved in the explosion,” said an FBI official who led the investigation.
However, the investigative authorities said they had no conclusions about the motives of the crime, the AP said.
In Nashville, around 6:30 am on the 25th, a camping vehicle parked in the middle of the city exploded, injuring three people and destroying 40 nearby buildings.
Warner has experience with electrical and alarm systems, and has worked as a computer consultant for a real estate agency in Nashville, but is not known to have had any special problems with the people around him.
In addition, there are reports that it has been confirmed that the property was recently rearranged, such as transferring ownership of two houses to two women.
Earlier, Nashville WSMV reported that investigative authorities may have thought that Warner was’a tool for spying on Americans’, and that such paranoia was investigating whether this was the background of the case.
In fact, the vehicle exploded in front of the building where the central office of the telephone switching office of the US telecommunications company AT&T was located, causing some communications services to be interrupted and the airport’s flight takeoff to a temporary halt.
Meanwhile, it is known that a popular pop song from the 60s came out of the vehicle just before the explosion on the 25th.
At the time, the police who were dispatched after being reported that there had been a shooting were heard from the RV on the scene that the bomb would detonate 15 minutes later, and the message “Escape now” continued to appear in countdown format.
Soon a pop song came out of the car, and the RV exploded shortly after the music was over.
After listening to the music, one policeman remembered some of the lyrics and later learned through another colleague that the pop song was Petula Clark’s’Downtown’, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965.
Although the explosion took place downtown, it is not known what connection this song is to the incident.
Meanwhile, the driver of a truck parked at a convenience store near Nashville was detained that morning.
The truck was followed by music similar to’Downtown’, where officials left the convenience store and pulled the car on the roadside to inspect the car with a robot.
In case of emergency, the eastern road to Nashville was closed.
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