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Federal authorities say a 63-year-old Antioch man was responsible for a Christmas morning bombing that left the suspect dead and captured the nation’s attention over the holiday weekend as officials worked to determine who parked an RV downtown to detonate.
What motivated him is still unknown.
In between a digitized female voice giving warnings to evacuate the area, there was music, the officers said.
"Downtown," a wistful 1964 song by Petula Clark, echoed down Second Avenue just before the blast.
“When you're alone and life is making you lonely you can always go downtown,” blared Clark’s voice through the speakers. “When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know.”
Authorities are expected to continue their investigation downtown in the coming days. The type of explosives used in the blast remain unknown. Warner wasn’t on the radar of law enforcement before Friday’s explosion, they said, and officials have declined to deem the bombing an act of terrorism.
Schmoldt said while the RV had been parked outside the home for years, a couple weeks ago, Warner built a gate in the fence and drove the RV into his yard.
Daniel Douglas, who lived across the street from Warner for 26 years, said Warner told him he moved the RV because people were trying to break into it.
Warner received packages frequently, his neighbor said, and in the past year installed a mailbox. Previously, Warner used a post office box to receive his mail but then began receiving packages at home, Douglas said.
As news unfolded Friday morning, it wasn’t immediately obvious that Warner and his RV were nowhere to be found.
“To be honest, we didn’t really pay any attention it was gone until the FBI and ATF showed up,” Schmoldt said.
Anthony Warner had a solitary job as an information technology specialist, stopping in to various offices to fix computers. He was 63. He was not married. His neighbors barely knew him.
He sent an email to one of his clients three weeks ago to say he was retiring. He started shedding possessions: He told his ex-girlfriend that he had cancer and gave her his car. Records show that he signed away his home on the day before Thanksgiving.
But he made sure to hold on to one last thing: His R.V., a Thor Motor Coach Chateau that he kept in his back yard.
OR..it was a total diversion for what really was blown up.
We'll get the story..."lone wolf, disgruntled employee, etc"
His neighbors said he was a keep to himself/hermit kind of guy but was very nice. A company he did computer consulting work for also said he was very nice person. I guess we'll see.
I think he screwed up since he blew himself up in the process and didn't accomplish much with his effort. Fortunately for people nobody was seriously hurt.
Yesterday, 33 yr-old James Turgeon drove a box truck by a TN church with his own recording. Law enforcement surrounded him. He did not have a bomb. He was on probation and thought it would be a funny joke. There goes his freedom.
Quite an assumption. What if your dead body was in the RV when it blew up? Would recovering your remains from scene mean that you set off the bomb? Just saying, why assume?
THIS! ^^
We have more questions than answers. Someone could have killed the guy and stolen his RV. He's a loner, so people will believe any story fed to them.
But I'm still pondering why they executed Timothy McVeigh as quickly as they did. People can call me a conspirator if they want to. I don't care. When things don't make sense to me, I can't let them go, and I never forget.
Hey, at least he didn't outfit an AR-15 with a "bump stock" and go on a rampage on Christmas Eve.
Yes, he killed himself, destroyed vehicles, damaged historic buildings and disrupted cell phone communications. But as far as nut jobs going out with a bang, this one could have been a lot worse.
Hey, at least he didn't outfit an AR-15 with a "bump stock" and go on a rampage on Christmas Eve.
Yes, he killed himself, destroyed vehicles, damaged historic buildings and disrupted cell phone communications. But as far as nut jobs going out with a bang, this one could have been a lot worse.
It's quite obvious that hurting people was not the intent.
That AT&T building does a lot more than just service cell phone communication.
We have more questions than answers. Someone could have killed the guy and stolen his RV. He's a loner, so people will believe any story fed to them.
But I'm still pondering why they executed Timothy McVeigh as quickly as they did. People can call me a conspirator if they want to. I don't care. When things don't make sense to me, I can't let them go, and I never forget.
This one doesn't sit right with me.
What exactly is making you doubt it?
They'll find a reason. It's going to take a few days to get his computer history. I'll be shocked if it's due to his father.
They'll find a reason. It's going to take a few days to get his computer history. I'll be shocked if it's due to his father.
Not sure, really. It's probably nothing more than my suspicious mind. He probably did it, but I need to see solid evidence. Maybe that evidence has been produced and I'm not aware of it? I'm not really following this story as much as others seem to be doing. So many things to do,,,, so little time in which to do them.
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