Federal agents are investigating over 500 tips and scouring the charred site of an explosion in Nashville, a day after a motor home blaring a recorded warning blew up and injured three people.
Metro Nashville Police Department Spokesman Don Aaron confirmed Warner’s identity on Sunday.
Federal and state investigators are trying to determine who set off a bomb inside a recreational vehicle on Friday morning, injuring three people and damaging more than 40 businesses.
They are also working to identify human remains found at the scene.
Nashville Chief of Police John Drake speaks at a news conference in Nashville, Tennessee [Mark Humphrey/AP Photo]Meanwhile, local media reported on Sunday that FBI agents investigating the explosion visited a real estate agency where Warner had worked on computers.
Steve Fridrich, owner of Fridrich & Clark Realty in Nashville’s Green Hills neighbourhood, told the Tennessean newspaper he spoke with the agents late on Saturday about Warner, 63, after the company told the FBI he had worked there.
Home searched after US blast
MOTIVE UNKNOWN: Investigations are reportedly focused on Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, who had lived at the house in Nashville, but signed it over to a woman last month
Reuters, NASHVILLE, Tennessee
US Federal agents investigating the explosion of a motor home in Nashville, Tennessee, were on Saturday searching a two-story suburban house for clues to the blast, which injured three people in the heart of the US’ country music capital on Christmas Day.
Agents were also trying to identify apparent human remains found near the exploded vehicle.
The motor home, parked on a downtown Nashville street, exploded at dawn on Friday, moments after police responding to reports of gunfire noticed it and heard an automated message emanating from the vehicle warning of a bomb.
Federal agents investigating the explosion of a motor home in Nashville were searching a two-story suburban house Saturday for clues to the blast, which injured three people in the heart of America's country music capital on Christmas Day.
Federal agents were also trying to identify apparent human remains found near the exploded vehicle.
The motor home, parked on a downtown street of the Southern U.S.
New mayor takes Scrantonâs reins
This is not how Paige Gebhardt Cognetti envisioned her first year as Scrantonâs mayor.
Elected in November 2019 to fill the final two years of former Mayor Bill Courtrightâs term after his guilty plea to federal corruption charges, Cognetti took office Jan. 6 and had to start working almost immediately to put out figurative fires.
The first was dealing with the potentially devastating Lackawanna County Court decision in a tax lawsuit that threatened to drive the city into insolvency, followed in short order by the burgeoning COVID-19 crisis that prompted her to declare a public health emergency in mid-March.