Opinion| As if there were not enough terrible things occurring in 2020, the city of Nashville received a dose of terror and on Christmas morning.
As children were waking up across the country to see what Santa had left them, a huge bomb, allegedly built and deployed by Anthony Quinn Warner, was detonated in the city.
We are told that the suspect, who the authorities say acted alone, was killed in the blast. Call me crazy, but it seems a little early to know whether or not the man was working with anyone else on the demented plot, but I am not privy to the facts of the case, so I guess we just have to take the investigators’ word for it.
You can watch the press conference where Don Cochran, the US Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee gave the details of the official story:
Now we are learning more about the alleged bomber and his final days before Christmas.
Fox News reported, Via the AP:
‘The suspect who authorities say was responsible for the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville reportedly told his neighbor in the days before the explosion that “Nashville and the world is never going to forget me.”
Rick Laude said he saw Anthony Quinn Warner standing at his mailbox on Dec. 21 and pulled over in his car to speak with him. After asking how Warner’s elderly mother was doing, Laude said he casually asked him, “Is Santa going to bring you anything good for Christmas?” Laude said Warner smiled and then said, “Oh, yeah, Nashville and the world is never going to forget me.”
Laude, 57, a commercial truck driver, said he didn’t think much of the remark and thought Warner only meant that “something good” was going to happen for him. He said he was “speechless” later when he read that authorities had identified Warner as the suspected bomber.
“Nothing about this guy raised any red flags,” Laude said. “He was just quiet.”‘
Sounds like this guy was straight out of central casting for crazed suicide bomber. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Nashville and anyone and everyone who was harmed, in anyway, by this cowardly act.
