Nashville bomb: Tennessee cops pull over ‘truck with PA system telling people to evacuate’
Tennessee cops pull over ‘truck playing spooky message urging people to evacuate’ just 30 miles from where RV blew up on Christmas Day
- The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office parts of Highway 231 had been shut on Sunday due to a suspicious vehicle
- It comes two days after the Nashville bombing in which the explosion was prefaced by a recorded warning
- Police on Sunday confirmed that Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, is a person of interest in the Christmas explosion
- Warner is believed to have died when an RV blew up outside Nashville’s AT&T building, leaving three injured
- Footage from the scene Sunday shows white truck surrounded by police; the driver has since been detained
A Tennessee highway was on Sunday closed amid reports of a truck with PA system telling people to evacuate the area.
The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office tweeted: ‘Highway 231 South from the Cedars of Lebanon State Park to Richmond Shop road is currently shut down due to a suspicious vehicle.’
It comes just two days after the Nashville bombing in which a recreational vehicle blew up on a mostly deserted street and was prefaced by a recorded warning advising those nearby to evacuate.
Police on Sunday confirmed that Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, is a person of interest in the Christmas explosion. Warner is believed to have died when an RV blew up outside Nashville’s AT&T building, leaving three injured.
A Tennessee highway was on Sunday closed amid reports of a truck with PA system telling people to evacuate the area. Footage from the scene showa white truck on an empty road surrounded by police cars
Footage from the scene shows a white truck on an empty road surrounded by police cars.
The truck had told people to evacuate via a PA system, WSMV reports. The driver has since been detained.
Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement the truck had been ‘playing audio similar to what was heard before the Christmas Day explosion in Nashville.’
They said the truck had been parked outside a convenience store in Rutherford making the announcement before making its way to Wilson County.
Police were called at 10:30am local time and then located the vehicle.
Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement: ‘Sheriff’s deputies in Rutherford and Wilson Counties are investigating a box truck parked at a convenience store playing audio similar to what was heard before the Christmas Day explosion in Nashville.
‘The driver traveled from Rutherford County into Wilson County where he was stopped by deputies and detained.
‘As a precaution, nearby residents were evacuated during the active investigation.
‘Rutherford County dispatchers received a call about 10:30 a.m. about the white box truck parked at Crossroads Market in Walter Hill. Deputies located the truck and made the traffic stop.
‘Rutherford and Wilson County Sheriff’s Office and the Tennessee Highway Patrol are working together in the ongoing investigation.’
Police said the truck had been parked outside a convenience store in Rutherford making the announcement before making its way to Wilson County. Police were called at 10:30am local time and then located the vehicle
The Christmas Day attack in Nashville, which damaged an AT&T building, continued to wreak havoc on cellphone service and police and hospital communications in several Southern states.
Investigators shut down the heart of downtown Nashville’s tourist scene — an area packed with restaurants and shops — as they shuffled through broken glass and damaged buildings to learn more about the explosion.
Mayor John Cooper has enforced a curfew in the downtown area until Sunday via executive order to limit public access to the area. More than 40 buildings were affected.
According to Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake, police officers responded on Friday to a report of shots fired when they encountered the RV blaring a recorded warning that a bomb would detonate in 15 minutes.
Police evacuated nearby buildings and called in the bomb squad. The RV exploded shortly afterward.
On Sunday police described how the RV played an ominous warning about the impending explosion and the song ‘Downtown’ by Petula Clark in the minutes before the blast went off
Speculation is growing that the AT&T building was intentionally targeted in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing as the FBI probes rumors that the main person of interest in the attack, identified by police as Anthony Quinn Warner, harbored deep paranoia about 5G technology. Pictured: Investigators dig through the wreckage on 2nd Avenue North
Speaking to CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday, Nashville Mayor John Cooper said he suspects that the AT&T building was targeted in the attack
The FBI is said to be investigating whether Warner may have been motivated by a paranoid belief that Americans are being spied on with 5G technology.
Nashville Mayor John Cooper on Sunday said he suspects that the AT&T transmission center was intentionally targeted in the attack.
One man whose business was destroyed in the blast told WZTV he’d spotted a similar RV parked in the area multiple times in the past few weeks, suggesting that Warner may have ‘staked out’ the site.
Several neighbors of Warner’s home on Bakertown Road in Antioch described him as an ‘oddball’ who posted ‘No Trespassing’ signs around the property and was often seen tinkering with a TV antenna on the house.
They also said he had an RV matching the one used in the attack parked on the property, as seen in Google street-view images from last year.
The FBI was said to have received two tips concerning Warner prior to the explosion, including one from a person who reported that he was making bombs in his RV in August 2019.
DailyMail.com revealed that the $160,000 home had been transferred for free to 29-year-old Michelle Swing on November 25 – but she claims she was unaware of the exchange.
REVEALED: Nashville ‘bomber’, 63, told LA mother, 29, he planned to spend Christmas ‘in the woods with his dogs’ and warned her basement of home he gave her for free was ‘not normal’
A letter allegedly sent by the suspect in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing to a woman he transferred ownership of his house to has been revealed.
Police on Sunday confirmed that Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, is a person of interest in the investigation launched when an RV exploded outside Nashville’s AT&T building on Friday morning, leaving three people injured and dozens of structures damaged.
FBI agents were seen raiding Warner’s home in Antioch on Saturday as DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that he had given the property away for free to 29-year-old Michelle Swing of Los Angeles in a quitclaim deed dated November 25.
Swing told DailyMail.com that she was unaware that Warner, a self-employed IT contractor, had signed the $160,000 home over to her.
But a new report claims that Warner informed Swing of the transfer in a letter last month, writing: ‘The attic has plywood and lighting, take a look. The basement is not normal, take a look. Woof woof Julio.’
In the letter Warner also shared that he ‘intended to travel on Christmas Eve to spend a few weeks in the woods with his dogs’, according to The Sun.
Nashville bombing suspect Anthony Quinn Warner allegedly sent a letter to Michelle Swing (above) telling her that he had transferred ownership of his home in Antioch to her last month
The $160,000 house Warner gave to Swing for free in a quitclaim deed dated November 25 is shown above. On the left side is a white RV matching the one used in Friday’s bombing
FBI agents swarmed Warner’s Bakertown Road property on Saturday morning
Warner’s two properties are located just a 15 minute drive from where the bomb exploded
ATF and law enforcement members investigate the Christmas Day explosion that tore through downtown Nashville
Speaking to DailyMail.com, Swing declined to disclose whether she had ever met Warner or if she had any family links to him, saying: ‘I’ve been told to direct everything else to FBI.’
The Sun reported that police believe Warner may have had a relationship with Swing’s mother.
The outlet said Swing told investigators that she last spoke to Warner a week before Thanksgiving and that she had never met him in person.
Chilling video captured the moment the RV exploded outside Nashville’s AT&T building at about 6.40am Friday morning
The RV used in the Christmas morning bombing is shown above hours before it exploded
Smoke rises around the AT&T transmission center in downtown Nashville moments after the explosion on Friday morning
Adding to the mystery over Warner was the revelation that he had transferred his Antioch home to Swing late last month via a quitclaim deed.
Swing, who lives in Los Angeles, insisted that she was unaware of the transfer and her signature does not appear on the deed dated November 25.
‘In the state of Tennessee you can deed property to someone else without their consent or their signature or anything,’ Swing explained to DailyMail.com on Saturday.
‘I didn’t even buy the house he just deeded it over to me without my knowledge.
‘This all very weird to me, that’s about all I can say.’
Records show Warner also transferred another home on Bakertown Road to Swing via a quitclaim deed in January 2019.
The $249,000 house had previously belonged to a member of his family and Warner had only been in possession of it for five months before again giving it to Swing for free. She later also used a quitclaim to give the house to another person.
The house was originally owned by Warner’s father Charles but was passed to Warner’s brother Steve after Charles’ death in 2011.
Steve died of cancer in September 2018, a month after Warner acquired the house.
Court records show Warner’s mother Chris tried to stop the transfer of the second home last year after accusing her son of acting in his own interest as Steve’s power-of-attorney before his death, according to the Tennessean. Chris later dropped the case against her son.
Swing has claimed that she had no idea that the house had been transferred to her at no cost on November 25
Swing’s signature does not appear on the November 25th transfer and she told DailyMail.com she knew absolutely nothing about it
According to records, in January 2019, Warner also transferred this $249,000 home to Swing
Swing’s address in the record for the transfer is listed as Lenoir City, Tennessee, a two-hour drive from Nashville.
In March 2019, she also used a quitclaim to give away the house to a person named Betty Lane, according to county records.
According to her LinkedIn profile, she studied Marketing and Business and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she remained working until 2012 when she moved to California.
Swing first lived in San Francisco before a move to Los Angeles in October 2018, where she works in artist development for Anschutz Entertainment Group.
