Nashville blast suspect died in explosion, say police

The 63-year-old suspect within the bombing that rocked Nashville on Christmas Day morning was killed within the blast that destroyed his motor dwelling and broken greater than 40 companies, authorities mentioned on Sunday.

FBI forensic specialists matched DNA samples recovered from the scene to that of Anthony Q. Warner, whose dwelling in close by Antioch was searched on Saturday by federal brokers.

“We’ve come to the conclusion 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, US Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, advised a information convention.

Officials mentioned it was too early within the investigation to debate the suspect’s motives.

Warner’s motor dwelling, parked on a downtown avenue of Tennessee’s largest metropolis, exploded at daybreak on Friday moments after police responding to reviews of gunfire seen it and heard music and an automatic message emanating from the automobile warning of a bomb.

The proprietor of Fridrich & Clark Realty, Steve Fridrich, advised the Tennessean newspaper that for 4 or 5 years Warner had come into the workplace roughly as soon as a month to supply laptop consulting companies, till this month when Warner advised the corporate in an e mail that he would now not be working for them. He gave no cause, in response to Fridrich.