Anthony Quinn Warner, a Nashville terrorist, was chosen on Christmas morning for his devastating suicide blast because his “intent was more destruction than death,” a lead investigator said Monday.
The 63-year-old loner blasted several buildings remarkably when the generally crowded streets of the city’s historic center were mostly deserted, according to the Tennessee director of research. David Rausch told NBC’s “Today” program.
He also gave “a chance to clear the area” with warnings from his parked RV “that an explosion was imminent,” said Rausch, of the audio that also strangely played Petula Clark’s classic pop song “Downtown”.
The evidence “certainly gives you this idea that the possibility was that he had no intention of harming anyone but himself,” the lead researcher said.
“It seems the intention was more destruction than death,” he said.
The massive investigation, involving federal, state and local authorities, is hampered by the fact that the IT consultant appears to have no presence on social media or to leave any suggestion of political ideology, the researcher confirmed.
“We don’t know for sure that we will ever get to the full answer because obviously this individual is no longer with us” to be questioned, Rausch said.
“We may never find out the exact reasoning behind the activity that took place,” he added.
The office manager also revealed that his team was able to confirm that Warner died in the blast using DNA debris from a hat and gloves from one of the attacker’s old cars.
Nashville Mayor John Cooper said Sunday that the bombing looked like an “infrastructure attack” aimed at the block’s AT&T building, which caused huge service disruptions in several states.
“For all of us locally, there seems to be some connection to the AT&T facilities and the bombing site,” Cooper said. he told CBS News “Face the Nation.”
“It must have something to do with infrastructure,” he said of the attack by a man who reportedly believed conspiracy theories about 5G networks.