Nashville bombing: A girlfriend told police the 2019 bomber was building explosives in a round vehicle, according to records

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On August 21, 2019, police received a call from a lawyer representing Pamela Perry, the woman who said she was the girlfriend of bomber Anthony Warner, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reported Tuesday. His lawyer, Raymond Throckmorton, said he had made “suicide threats over the phone.”

When police arrived, they found two unloaded pistols near Perry, which they said belonged to Warner. He told officers he no longer wanted them at home and that Warner was “building bombs in the trailer of his house,” according to an MNPD report.

Police also spoke with Throckmorton, who once represented Warner and was also present at Perry’s home. He told authorities that Warner “often talks about the military and making bombs. (Throckmorton) said he believes the suspect knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb,” the report said.

CNN has approached Throckmorton to comment on his account – first reported by the Tennessean – but has not yet learned.

In the course of his various attempts to enter the house, Warner did not open the door to the police, according to a statement from the department, and as there was no evidence of a crime, they had no authority to enter.

The MNPD asked the FBI to check its databases for Warner records and none was found, the FBI confirmed in a statement to CNN.

On Monday, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch said 63-year-old Warner had not previously been on law enforcement radar.

There are days left to search the crime scene

Friday’s blast outside an AT&T broadcast building in Nashville damaged more than 40 buildings and injured at least eight people.

Investigators positively identified Warner by comparing the DNA of the scene to that of the gloves and hat of a vehicle he owned, Rausch said. The cause of the explosion is still unknown.

The blast disrupted historic Nashville Street, and federal investigators hope it will take until Friday to search the rubble and gather all evidence from the crime scene, officials said Tuesday.

By that time, the FBI and ATF national response teams had just gone through half of the crime scene and opened it to city workers for cleaning and security assessment, according to FBI spokesman Jason Pack.

Nashville residents, business owners to retrieve important items and pets from Christmas Day bomb site

And while authorities have a lot of work ahead of them to determine what motivated the destruction, the area began to open up to nearly two dozen business owners and residents on the outskirts of the impact site.

They were escorted by officials to buildings considered structurally safe to retrieve their important items, in some cases their pets.

For many small business owners affected by the bombing, the damage only adds to the difficulties created by the coronavirus pandemic.

“This year has been tough,” Pete Gibson, owner of Pride & Glory Tattoo on 2nd Avenue, told CNN. “But just when we get some light at the end of the tunnel, everything goes in two seconds.”

CNN’s Raja Razek, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz, Mark Morales, Jamiel Lynch, Hollie SIlverman, Eric Levenson, Amir Vera, Kay Jones, and Natasha Chen contributed to this report.

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