CBS News is reporting that Anthony Quinn Warner, is a person of interest in connection with the “RV explosion” on 2nd Avenue in downtown Nashville. Investigators on Saturday afternoon, December 26, 2020 are at a home in the block of 100 Bakertown Road in Antioch conducting searches and gathering evidence. As of Saturday afternoon authorities have made no official statement about the search or any connection of the explosion on 2nd Avenue N with Anthony Quinn Warner or anyone who lives in the block of 100 Bakertown Road in Antioch, Tennessee.
Anthony Quinn Warner is a 63-year-old resident of Antioch, which is located about 11 miles southeast of the explosion scene. Google map images show that an RV similar to the RV image release by Metro Nashville Police Department has been parked at a home in the block of 100 Bakertown Road in Antioch, Tennessee.
WZTV FOX 17 News, Nashville during a live stream Saturday afternoon that ATF and FBI activity is ongoing at a “Nashville home” as agents follow bombing leads …
CBS’s Chief Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues tweeted that CBS News has learned the name of a person of interest tied to the explosion that “rocked Nashville on Christmas Day.” Multiple sources tell CBS News that Anthony Quinn Warner, a Nashville area resident, had a similar make and model RV, according to Jeff Pegues.
BREAKING: This is the RV that exploded on 2nd Ave N this morning. It arrived on 2nd Ave at 1:22 a.m. Have you seen this vehicle in our area or do you have information about it? Please contact us via Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463 or online via https://t.co/dVGS7o0m4v. @ATFHQ pic.twitter.com/JNx9sDinAH
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) December 25, 2020
David Begnaud, the lead national correspondent for CBS This Morning, also shared information about the investigation in a Twitter thread. Begnaud said that one theory is that AT&T may have been the target, or that some other building or infrastructure in the area of the explosion may have been a target.
The blast caused considerable damage to the AT&T building at 185 2nd Avenue N, including assets inside the building. AT&T’s Nashville Main Central Office at 185 2nd Ave N in Nashville is the central office or telephone exchange, with network equipment inside the building and possibly server farms inside the building. A telephone exchange, telephone switch, or central office is a telecommunications system used in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or in large enterprises.
The AT&T outage connected with the explosion caused service issues in middle Tennessee and Kentucky. Several police agencies reported that their 911 systems were down because of the outage, including Knox County, where Knoxville, Tennessee is located about 180 miles east of Nashville. The building may also have housed components of FirstNet, which is a combined radio and “exclusive” Internet system designed to establish, operate, and maintain an interoperable public safety broadband network for firefighters, paramedics and police officers. Congress allotted $7 billion and 20 MHz of radio spectrum to build the network. The construction of the nationwide FirstNet network requires each state to have a Radio Access Network (RAN). The establishment of FirstNet was awarded to AT&T as the major telecommunications provider.
CBS News reports a law enforcement source said one theory investigators are looking at, regarding the Nashville Christmas Day explosion, is the possibility that AT&T may have been the target or some other building or infrastructure in the area of the explosion.
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) December 26, 2020
The RV housing the explosive device was parked at the AT&T building in downtown Nashville since Christmas Eve a day before the explosion.
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) December 26, 2020
The blast caused considerable damage to AT&T, which apparently is a communication switch hub, knocking out internet & cell phone service throughout a wide area from Nashville to Alabama.
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) December 26, 2020
Investigators believe the explosion was an intentional act. They are speculating that human life was not the prime target as the explosion occurred on a Christmas morning when it was quiet & not many people in downtown Nashville and the recorded announcements from the RV prior…
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) December 26, 2020
… to the blast warning people that an explosion was imminent and then warning people to evacuate now as the time of the explosion grew closer to detonation.
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) December 26, 2020
^^ MOBILE? USE VOICE MIC ^^
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