Perpetrator Named in Nashville Christmas Bombing
FBI announcing they'd made a DNA match to the remains found at the scene of the explosion in downtown Nashville. They say Anthony Warner acted alone. pic.twitter.com/UP6BIuBdgi
— NewsChannel 5 (@NC5) December 27, 2020
The FBI said on Sunday that the human remains found at the scene of a massive Christmas Day explosion in Nashville match suspect Anthony Quinn Warner, 63. Earlier Sunday, authorities officially named Warner as a person of interest in the case, one day after searching his home in Antioch, Tennessee.
“We can tell you Anthony Warner is the man believed to be responsible for this horrible crime,” said Nashville Metro police chief John Drake on Sunday afternoon.
CBS News has obtained a photo that law enforcement sources have confirmed is of Warner and being used in the investigation.
A law enforcement source told CBS News that investigators obtained a DNA sample from Warner’s mother to be matched with human remains recovered from the scene. Authorities on Sunday confirmed they had used a relative’s DNA sample.
FBI special agent Doug Korneski said Sunday that there is no indication of additional suspects. Investigators are still searching for a motive. They would not say if the bombing is being considered domestic terrorism, and authorities confirmed Warner was not on law enforcement’s radar prior to the explosion.
Periodically, there comes up a thread where someone asks “hey, Engineers! If you wanted to do something, what would you do?” There were always sub-categories of “what if I didn’t want to get caught”, “what if I didn’t mind going to prison”, and “what if I didn’t mind dying in the attempt”.
And there’s usually one or two interesting comments before someone says “QUIT GIVING THEM IDEAS!”
Anyway, I’m pretty sure that this was adjacent to one of the interesting comments.Report
Honestly, the biggest thing stopping non-engineers from being destructive at an engineering level is doing the math. I don’t mind “giving them ideas” because most don’t have the math or science background to execute the idea without step by step instructions (which also means that should they encounter a hiccup, they can’t adjust to overcome it).Report
There’s only but so many things that an enthusiastic idiot can accomplish, true.
But that list still includes things that can, for example, have people taking off their shoes at the airport until doomsday.Report
If you want to get elected president, run on the platform of deploying sufficiently good sensor and processing tech that walking through a ten-foot-long tunnel is sufficient screening. No taking off your shoes, no removing your belt and keys and coins, take your carry-on bag through with you. Landslide victory.Report
Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02zi1S8vZQ
We could get there with Millimeter wave and good pattern recognition AI. Hell, it doesn’t need to be much better than a bored TSA agent to be effective.Report
Maybe add some of the new sensor technology for identifying trace chemicals in the air that’s showing up.Report
That’s the thing about security, you can only have so much before it becomes more trouble than it’s worth and everyone stops taking it seriously.
But even basic security should catch the enthusiastic idiot. It’s the smart guy they’ll only catch by happenstance.Report
Ah, the infamous “person skilled in the art” from patent law. I’m just a systems guy: how do/can the parts fit together, how does/can the process work, granted for a wide range of parts and processes. (Also with low tastes for certain kinds of math, real time software, and public policy.) I’ve always said that what makes me a good systems guy is that I know when it’s time to go talk to a real expert.Report
One would think that if you are up to no good, you’d want to be very careful about how you talked to said expert.Report
Sometimes even when you’re not up to no good, if you’re doing something particularly interesting.Report
“FBI special agent Doug Korneski said Sunday that there is no indication of additional suspects” Yeah, like they’d really tell us IF there were additional suspects.Report
This story has been around the twitters, but I haven’t seen it here yet
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/29/nashville-explosion-woman-warned-mnpd-warner-building-bomb-2019/4082253001/
“Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago, report shows“
(Also, that lawyer is probably going to have some explaining to do. He denies the part of the story where he defended Warner against the police searching his property, but there’s another story where he seems to be the lawyer on several different sides of the contact when Warner signed over his property a few months ago)Report
Lots of online folks seem to think the police did their job, tarred the girlfriend for being mentally unstable and we should all move on. Which – if true – means we have learned nothing since Oklahoma City about how to thwart domestic terrorists. Yeah team.Report
It’s interesting to me how Nashville police didn’t think they could get a search warrant after being told a person is making bombs, but Louisville police could get one because a woman might be getting packages for an old boyfriend who sells drugs.
Priorities?Report