Suspect Dies In Nashville Bombing

By Stefan J. Bos, Special Correspondent Worthy News

(Worthy News) – Authorities say a 63-year-old suspect was killed in a car bombing in Nashville on Christmas Day.

At least three people were injured in the blast that rocked the center of the capital of both the state of Tennessee and U.S. country music.

FBI forensic experts matched DNA samples recovered from the scene to that of Anthony Q. Warner, whose home in nearby Antioch was searched on Saturday by federal agents.

“We’ve concluded that an individual named Anthony Warner is the bomber, and he was present when the bomb went off and that he perished in the bombing,” Donald Cochran, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, told reporters.

Officials said it was too early in the investigation to discuss the suspect’s motives. Warner’s motor home, parked on a downtown street of Tennessee’s largest city, exploded at dawn on Friday.

The blast came shortly after police responding to reports of gunfire noticed music and an automated message from the vehicle warning of a bomb.

It comes when the nation is still on edge following sometimes deadly riots, shootings, and previous acts of terrorism.

The latest explosion in the heart of America’s country music capital damaged dozens of businesses, including an AT&T switching center, disrupting mobile, internet, and TV services across central Tennessee and parts of four other states.

This wasn’t the first car bombing shaking the United States. A 1995 truck bombing in Oklahoma City killed 168 people, including 19 children, and wounded hundreds. Timothy McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in June 2001 for the attack. In April 2010, a food vendor foiled an attempt to set off a car bomb in New York’s Time Square.

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