Creepy images from the police corps camera released Monday capture the restless calm before the Nashville Christmas bombing, and then the deafening outburst and chaos in the ensuing minutes.
The camera of Officer Michael Sipos, one of the first six police officers on the scene, investigated the stunning images that investigated the suspicious RV that sounded an audio warning to evacuate around 6:30 a.m. Christmas morning.
The nearly 13-minute video opens with Sipos and his fellow police officers urging area residents to leave, as the RV’s own nefarious message resonates up and down a mostly deserted second avenue.
“Your main goal is to evacuate these buildings now,” a woman’s voice can be heard saying in the automated recording emanating from the RV. “Do not approach this vehicle.”
Police can be heard commenting on the disturbing scene.
“That’s so weird,” Sipos said. “It’s like a movie.”
“How” The purge? “” Another policeman can be heard asking, referring to the dystopian horror series.
Decreasingly disturbing tension, you can hear Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree ”playing on the speaker of a closed shop window as police pass by.
Passing the RV, a lawmaker noted that the vehicle was sitting right in front of a key AT&T building.
“The building next door is the building that houses all the hard phone lines all over the southeast,” the agent said.
“It makes sense,” another replied. “A good place to put a bomb.”
Since then, investigators have theorized that suicide bomber Anthony Quinn Warner may have run the building with the intent of a crippling service, possibly due to a paranoid fear of technology and cell surveillance. lules 5G.
Sipos finally veered off Second Avenue, returning to his marked car.
A few seconds after Sipos opened the trunk, the lightning explosion could be heard in the distance, followed by a cacophony of car alarms.
Sipos calmly put on a protective vest, closed the trunk, and headed for Second Avenue, the way back now full of broken pieces of glass and other shrapnel.
He returned to Second Avenue in time for his camera to capture the burning RV, and a handful of shaken premises came out of the buildings and asked unanswered questions.
Intermittent blows were heard in the minutes following the biggest explosion, which one officer warned could be ammunition inside the RV exploding in the heat.
“It simply came to our notice then. It could be ammunition inside the vehicle, “a police officer could be heard through police radio.” Don’t go into the open. Don’t go out into the open on Second Avenue. “
When doctors and firefighters flooded the scene, so did the most curious spectators who asked what happened.
“Dude, trust me, go over here,” Sipos addressed a civilian, gesturing at a distance to the scene of the explosion.
The blast killed Warner, injured three others and caused massive collateral damage, including telephone service throughout Tennessee and the South.
Investigators have said the 63-year-old IT expert appears to have acted alone.