Nashville Police Chief John Drake confirmed to local news outlets that Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, is the person of interest in the Christmas Day explosion in downtown Nashville.
Drake told The Tennessean that Warner was linked to the blast near the AT&T building downtown. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department told Reuters that Warner is under investigation in the case.
According to the news outlet, citing public records, Warner held several IT jobs over the years. He also had extensive experience with alarms and electronics systems. Recently, he worked for real estate company Fridrich & Clark.
Before the explosion, police said that the speakers on the RV that later exploded played the song “Downtown” by Petula Clark.
Steve Schmoldt, a neighbor of Warner, told the Tennessean that he lived next to the man for two decades, saying Warner was “kind of low key to the point of, I don’t know, I guess some people would say he’s a little odd.” Warner was furthermore described as friendly and made small talk