Recordings of 911 calls during the Nashville bombing show the great panic and confusion in the moments before and after the Christmas morning explosion.
Audio recordings, first obtained by the affiliated news station FOX 5, give a glimpse of the horror that surrounded the minutes before the explosion – when a suspicious recreational vehicle began wiping out an announcement warning people to evacuate and that ‘ a bomb would explode – and after the explosion.
“There’s a sound there that says there’s a limited time to evacuate this area. There’s a big bomb in this vehicle. It’s playing over and over and over again outside,” a caller could be heard saying the sender in one of the recordings. in the 56-second video.
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Police discovered the RV along Second Avenue North in downtown Nashville, near an AT&T building, early Friday morning while investigating a shooting report. The RV started playing the audible warning before switching to Petula Clark’s song “Downtown”. The bomber struck shortly after 6:30 p.m.
“There was a big, fiery explosion,” another 911 caller could hear. Another caller described the blast as “like a big fireball”.
There was a big, fiery explosion
Dozens of buildings in downtown Nashville were damaged or destroyed and three people were injured in the blast. The only person who died was the suspect, Anthony Quinn Warner, police said.
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“My whole building just collapsed and collapsed,” a frightened woman can be heard as she 911. “The roof collapses.”
‘Oh my God, it’s scary. “It looks like something else is on fire,” another person said during the call.
Metro Nashville police officers worked minutes before the blast to evacuate people from the area around the RV. Several officers have since been praised for their work.
But more than a year before the bombing, Warner’s girlfriend told Metro Nashville police the man was building bombs in an RV at his home. Police visited Warner’s home but did not contact him or see him in his RV.
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Officers were called to Pamela Perry’s home in Nashville on August 21, 2019, following a report from her attorney that she was making suicide threats while sitting on her front porch with firearms, the police department said in a statement.
According to the incident report, upon arrival of the police, the police said she had two unloaded pistols on the porch next to her. She told them the guns belonged to ‘Tony Warner’ and she no longer wanted them in the house. Perry, then 62, was taken to a psychological evaluation after talking to mental health professionals.
“During the pre-departure visit after the evaluation, Perry told police that her boyfriend was making bombs in an RV,” the report said.
According to the report, obtained by the Tennessee, police went to Warner’s home, about 2.4 miles away, but he did not answer the door when they repeatedly knocked. They saw the RV, but it was in a fenced backyard and officers could not see into the vehicle. They also spotted several security cameras and wires attached to an alarm sign on a front door.
“They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his house or fenced property,” the police statement said and supervisors and detectives were then notified.
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Attorney Raymond Throckmorton told officers at the time that he represented Warner, saying Warner “regularly talks about the military and making bombs,” police said. Warner “knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb,” Throckmorton told officials.
Later, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced that Warner’s only arrest was for a 1978 marijuana charge.
Police have not yet identified a motive in the attack in public.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.