Nashville bomb blast: Girlfriend told police in 2019 that bomber had built explosives in an RV, according to records

Nashville bomb blast: Girlfriend told police in 2019 that bomber had built explosives in an RV, according to records

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Police received a call on August 21, 2019 from a lawyer of Pamela Perry, the woman who said she was the girlfriend of bomber Anthony Warner, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement Tuesday. Her lawyer, Raymond Throckmorton, said she made “suicide threats by phone” to him.

When police arrived there, they found two unloaded pistols near Perry, who said they belonged to Warner. She told officers she no longer wanted them in the house and that Warner was “building bombs in the RV trailer in his home,” according to a report by the MNPD.

Police also spoke to Throckmorton, who once represented Warner and was also at Perry’s home. He told authorities Warner “regularly 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 released Throckmorton for comment on its report – first reported by the Tennessee – but has yet to hear about it.

In the course of their attempts to enter the house, Warner did not want to open the door for the police, reads a statement from the department and as there was no evidence of a crime, they have no power to enter do not go.

MNPD has asked the FBI to search its databases for Warner’s records and none have been found, the FBI confirmed in a statement to CNN.

David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, said Monday that Warner, 63, had not been on the law enforcement radar before.

Days left from the sieve of the crime scene

The blast outside an AT&T transmission building in Nashville on Friday damaged more than 40 buildings and injured at least eight people.

Investigators positively identified Warner by comparing DNA from the scene to that on gloves and a hat from a vehicle he owned, Rausch said. The motive for the blast is still unknown.

The blast left historic Nashville Street in disarray, and federal investigators expect it will take until Friday to sift through the rubble and gather all the evidence from the crime scene, officials said Tuesday.

At the time, national response teams from the FBI and ATF completed half of the crime scene and opened it to city workers for cleanup and security assessment, according to FBI spokesman Jason Pack.

Nashville Residents, Business Owners Picking Up Important Items and Pets from the Christmas Day Bomb

And while authorities are putting a lot of work ahead to determine what motivated the destruction, the area has begun 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 that are considered structurally safe to pick up their important items – in some cases their pets.

For many of the small business owners affected by the bombing, the damage only contributes to the suffering caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s been a tough year,” 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, it all disappears within 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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