ANTHONY QUINN WARNER

The FBI statement also said the investigation concluded that Warner's actions were not related to terrorism. Then, inexplicably, the audio switched to a recording of Petula Clark’s 1964 hit “Downtown” shortly before the blast. Investigators conducted more than 250 interviews and combed through more than 2,500 tips, the FBI said. AdNearly three months after the explosion, the blast site still remains closed off to traffic and Nashville’s bustling tourists. ___Associated Press writer Kimberlee Kruesi in Nashville, Tenn., contributed to this report.

The Nashville bomber sent packages containing writings and videos promoting conspiracy theories to multiple people just days prior to the blast, CBS News confirms. It was not immediately clear how many packages Warner mailed. The letter urged the recipient to watch the videos Warner included on the thumb drives. "They put a switch into the human brain so they could walk among us and appear human," Warner wrote. In a statement, the FBI said, "We are aware the suspect sent materials which espoused his viewpoints to several acquaintances throughout the country" and asked anyone who received a package to contact them.

The Nashville bomber sent packages containing writings and videos promoting conspiracy theories to multiple people just days prior to the blast, CBS News confirms. It was not immediately clear how many packages Warner mailed. The letter urged the recipient to watch the videos Warner included on the thumb drives. "They put a switch into the human brain so they could walk among us and appear human," Warner wrote. In a statement, the FBI said, "We are aware the suspect sent materials which espoused his viewpoints to several acquaintances throughout the country" and asked anyone who received a package to contact them.

FILE - This undated file image posted on social media by the FBI shows Anthony Quinn Warner. (Courtesy of FBI via AP, File)Before he blew himself up in a Christmas Day attack that devastated blocks of downtown Nashville, Anthony Warner sent materials about his views to people he knew, federal investigators said Saturday. In a statement to The Associated Press, FBI Special Agent Jason Pack said authorities are “aware the suspect sent materials which espoused his viewpoints to several acquaintances throughout the country.”Authorities have said Warner, 63, was responsible for the explosion, which damaged dozens of buildings and injured several people. Pack did not release additional details about what the packages from Warner contained but he urged anyone who may have received material from Warner to contact the FBI at 800-CALL-FBI. Then, inexplicably, the audio switched to a recording of Petula Clark’s 1964 hit “Downtown” shortly before the blast.

Buildings that were damaged in a Christmas Day explosion are seen, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020 in Nashville, Tenn. Officials are continuing to assess building damage caused by the Christmas Day explosion as law enforcement officials on Thursday allowed media outlets the first opportunity to survey the bomb site. (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP, Pool)NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Officials are continuing to assess building damage caused by the Christmas Day bombing as law enforcement officials on Thursday allowed media outlets the first opportunity to survey the downtown Nashville explosion site. City officials hoped to finish their assessment of the structural damage of the 41 affected buildings by Thursday. Bill Lee has asked the White House for an emergency declaration to free up money and resources to impacted business owners. Federal officials are continuing to investigate the motive of the man they identified as the bomber, 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner,

(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Singer Petula Clark expressed shock and disbelief that her 1964 hit “Downtown” was aired just minutes before a bomb detonated in Nashville on Christmas morning. “I was told that the music in the background of that strange announcement — was me — singing ‘Downtown'! Of all the thousands of songs — why this one?” Clark wrote on a Facebook post Tuesday. Clark said she loved Nashville and wished she could give everyone in the city a hug. “(Millions) of people all over the world have been uplifted by this joyful song,” Clark wrote.

According to the incident report, when officers arrived, police said she had two unloaded pistols beside her on the porch. “During that visit, before leaving for the evaluation, Perry told police that her boyfriend was making bombs in an RV,” the report stated. The report also said attorney Raymond Throckmorton told officers that day that he represented Warner and told officers Warner “frequently talks about the military and bomb making,” the police report said. Warner “knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb,” Throckmorton told responding officers. On Tuesday, Throckmorton told The Tennessean that Perry had fears about her safety and thought Warner might harm her.

Singer Petula Clark has spoken out in confusion about the use of her 1964 song “Downtown” by the man who set off a bomb in an RV on a Nashville street on Christmas Day. “Why this violent act — leaving behind it such devastation?” the British singer said in a statement posted Tuesday on Facebook. “A few hours later — I was told that the music in the background of that strange announcement — was me — singing ‘Downtown’! AdvertisementOn Facebook, 88-year-old Clark tried to make sense of why her song was used but didn’t come to a clear conclusion. “Of course, the opening lyric is, ‘When you’re alone and life is making you lonely you can always go Downtown,’” she wrote.

The recording from Officer Michael Sipos' camera captures officers walking past the RV parked across the street as the recorded warning blares. The recording from Officer Michael Sipos' camera captures officers walking past the RV parked across the street as the recorded warning blares. Nashville Police"That's so weird," Officer Sipos can be heard saying. Moments later, a thunderous blast can be heard off camera, and the footage then shows officers helping people evacuate. When Officer Sipos sees people near his patrol car, he instructs them: "Hey, ya'll got to go that way.

Warner, the man accused of exploding a bomb in Nashville, Tenn., on Christmas Day, told a neighbor days earlier that Nashville and the world is never going to forget me. A month before the bombing, he signed a document that transferred his longtime home in a Nashville suburb to a California woman for nothing in return. While investigators tried to piece together a possible motive for the attack, a neighbor recalled a recent conversation with Warner that seemed ominous only in hindsight. Rick Laude told The Associated Press on Monday that he saw Warner standing at his mailbox less than a week before Christmas and pulled over in his car to talk. David Rausch, the director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, said authorities hope to establish a motive but sometimes simply cannot.

The Nashville bombing is prompting new concerns about "lone wolf" terror threats in the United States. Investigators believe the Nashville bomber acted alone in carrying out the explosion that rocked the city's downtown on Christmas. "Lone wolf" attackers have proven to be some of the most difficult for law enforcement to stop. While the Nashville bombing has not been characterized as an act of domestic terrorism, the number of domestic terror cases under FBI investigation has been rising in recent years. Which covers everything from anarchists violent extremists to militia types," FBI Director Christopher Wray has said.

While officials on Sunday named Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, as the man behind the mysterious explosion in which he was killed, the motive has remained elusive. Yet thus far, officials have not provided information on what possibly drove Warner to set off the explosion. CBS affiliate WTVF reports that Warner's criminal history was short: one marijuana arrest in 1978 by Nashville police. Then, for reasons that may never be known, the audio switched to a recording of Petula Clark's 1964 hit "Downtown" shortly before the blast. But on Sunday, just blocks from where the bombing took place, tourists had already begun to fill the sidewalks on Lower Broadway, a central entertainment district.

FBI names Nashville Christmas bomber, remains found on site The FBI has identified 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner as the Nashville bomber but there are still questions about his motive. CBS News’ Mola Lenghi has more.

CBS News has obtained a photo that law enforcement sources have confirmed is of Warner and being used in the investigation. Law enforcement sources confirmed this is a photo of Anthony Quinn Warner. A law enforcement source told CBS News investigators obtained a DNA sample from Warner's mother to be matched with human remains recovered from the scene. Gloves and a beanie hat were found in that car, and DNA from those items was used to match Warner's DNA from the scene. Early Christmas morning, Nashville police responded to a call of shots fired near the AT&T data center in downtown Nashville.

Warner, the man accused of exploding a bomb in Nashville, Tenn., on Christmas Day, told a neighbor days earlier that Nashville and the world is never going to forget me. Only after a bomb exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning could Rick Laude grasp the sinister meaning behind his neighbor’s smiling remark that the city and the rest of the world would never forget him. After asking how Warner’s elderly mother was doing, Laude said he casually asked, “Is Santa going to bring you anything good for Christmas?”Warner smiled and said, “Oh, yeah, Nashville and the world is never going to forget me,” Laude recalled. Laude said he didn’t think much of the remark and thought Warner only meant that “something good” was going to happen for him financially. Warner also apparently gave away his home in Antioch, a Nashville suburb, to a Los Angeles woman a month before the bombing.

FBI confirms identity of Nashville suspect and says he died in blast Federal investigators have identified Anthony Quinn Warner as a person of interest in the Nashville bombing on Christmas Day. The FBI said Sunday that human remains found at the scene belong to Warner. Mola Lenghi reports.

The FBI said on Sunday that the human remains found at the scene of a massive Christmas Day explosion in Nashville match suspect Anthony Quinn Warner, 63. CBS News has obtained a photo that law enforcement sources have confirmed is of Warner and being used in the investigation. Law enforcement sources confirmed this is a photo of Anthony Quinn Warner. A law enforcement source told CBS News investigators obtained a DNA sample from Warner's mother to be matched with human remains recovered from the scene. Gloves and a beanie hat were found in that car, and DNA from those items was used to match Warner's DNA from the scene.

Anthony Quinn Warner, who was named by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the suspect in the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville, appears in an undated Tennessee driver's license photograph released by the FBI December 28, 2020. Authorities on Sunday identified Anthony Quinn Warner as the man behind a Christmas Day bombing that rocked downtown Nashville. Warner allegedly set off a bomb inside a recreational vehicle Friday morning, injuring three people and damaging more than 40 businesses. Authorities determined that Warner, 63, was the bomber after an analysis of DNA evidence found at the scene, police said. Correction: An RV in downtown Nashville exploded at around 6:30 a.m. local time on Christmas Day.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, that aired Sunday, December 27, 2020, on "Face the Nation." MARGARET BRENNAN: We want to go now to Frank Figliuzzi. FIGLIUZZI: So my confidence comes out of the language that law enforcement has been using as recently as the press conference yesterday afternoon. FIGLIUZZI: I think it's quite likely that this was a suicide mission for this individual. FIGLIUZZI: --where we're going to see the nation increasingly polarized about election results and upcoming inauguration.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol has said a robot was sent to investigate the truck and no device was found. The company suffered widespread outages in Tennessee and other states after a bomb in a recreational vehicle exploded near one of its facilities in downtown Nashville. Sheriff’s officials said the truck had been playing the audio when it was parked at a convenience store around 10:30 a.m. at the Crossroads Market in Walter Hill. Sheriff's officials did not specify what the box truck was playing. ___1:15 p.m.Nashville Police say a Tennessee man named Anthony Quinn Warner is under investigation in connection with the Christmas Day bombing that rocked downtown Nashville.

Washington — Nashville Mayor John Cooper said Sunday he believes there is a "lot of momentum" in the ongoing investigation into the bombing that rocked a section of Nashville on Christmas Day. "Everybody feels like there is a lot of momentum behind the investigation," Cooper said in an interview with "Face the Nation." "It's so shocking that on Christmas morning, this time of greatest hope, you have a bombing, a deliberate bombing, how can this be?" The explosion occurred early Christmas morning, after police responded to calls of shots fired near an AT&T building in downtown Nashville. Cooper said the city and scores of affected businesses, which are still weathering the coronavirus pandemic, will need help to rebuild.

Law enforcement sources told CBS News the suspect in the Nashville bombing on Christmas Day may have been killed in the blast. Multiple sources confirm that Anthony Quinn Warner, a Nashville area resident, has been identified as a person of interest in this case. Warner, a Nashville area resident, had a similar make and model RV as the one in photos released to the public. Shortly afterward, the warning of an imminent bomb started blaring and an explosion rocked the area at about 6:30 a.m. The scene is very large, and authorities said they are beginning at the "outermost" perimeter of the blast and working their way in.

Federal officials now turn to exploring the monumental task of piecing together the motive behind the Christmas Day explosion that severely damaged dozens of buildings and injured three in downtown Nashville, Tenn. While officials have named 63-year-old Warner as the man behind the mysterious explosion in which he was killed, the motive has remained elusive. (Courtesy of FBI via AP)NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The man believed to be responsible for the Christmas Day bombing that tore through downtown Nashville blew himself up in the explosion, and appears to have acted alone, federal officials said Sunday. “Nashville is considered safe," said Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake. Officials said their identification of Warner relied on several key pieces of evidence, including DNA found at the explosion site.

Person of interest in Nashville bombing identified by authorities At least one person of interest has been identified in connection to the explosion of a recreational vehicle in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on Christmas morning. Multiple sources confirm that Anthony Quinn Warner, a Nashville area resident, had a similar make and model RV as the one in photos released to the public. Jeff Pegues has more.

Law enforcement sources told CBS News the suspect in the Nashville explosion on Christmas Day may have been killed in the blast. Multiple sources confirm that Anthony Quinn Warner, a Nashville area resident, has been identified as a person of interest in this case. Warner, a Nashville area resident, had a similar make and model RV as the one in photos released to the public. Police responded to a call of shots fired early Friday near the AT&T building in downtown Nashville. Shortly afterward, the warning of an imminent bomb started blaring and an explosion rocked the area at about 6:30 a.m.