Anthony Quinn Warner, the individual suspected to be behind the Christmas day bombing in Nashville, Tennessee, in the days before he detonated the bomb changed his life in ways that seemed to suggest that he never intended to survive the blast that killed him and wounded three people. A month before the bombing, Warner signed a document, transferring his home in Nashville to a woman in California for nothing in return. He also gave away his car, telling the recipient that he had cancer.
Warner's neighbour Rick Laude told AP that a week before Christmas Laude had asked Warner, “Is Santa going to bring you anything good for Christmas?”
Warner smiled and said, “Oh, yeah, Nashville and the world is never going to forget me.”
Laude thought Warner only meant that something good was going to happen for him financially and was surprised when he learned that authorities had identified Warner as the bomber. The police are still investigating the motive for the blast that damaged more than 40 buildings. Following the blast, which also damaged an AT & T building, cellphone service was wreaked and communication for police and several hospitals were affected.
According to a law enforcement report, Warner's only arrest was for a 1978 marijuana-related charge.
Another neighbour described Warner as a hermit.
