TN - RV Explosion, Nashville, 25 Dec 2020 #2

[indicolite22]

Here's why police didn't spend more time investigating suspected Nashville bomber in 2019

Former federal prosecuting attorney Alex Little:

“They saw an RV. They saw security cameras and no trespassing signs. It looked like a suspicious location like someone was paranoid. If they put that in the affidavit, that would have reaffirmed the judge’s belief that something suspicion was going on.”

 

[news buff]

Just my two cents.

If the ex girlfriend was so afraid of him, why did she accept his car? If I had an ex who I believed was making bombs and was afraid of him poisoning me, I wouldn't want the car or laptop for fear that it could be rigged.

Also, who knows what went through his head with all of this. Yes, he destroyed peoples livelihoods by destroying their businesses, but considering he did this in the manner to not harm people, maybe he thought business owners would be better off... that maybe the government and people would provide enough help, more than what they might have been getting before. Maybe, maybe not.

Yeah, he was quite the humanitarian.

 

[indicolite22]

What if police could have prevented the Nashville bombing? Turns out there's a way.

From the article:

What’s needed is an expansion of the “red flag” or “extreme risk” law concept, already in place in many states to address concerns of potential gun violence, to include reports of bomb-making and possession of bomb components.

 

[indicolite22]

Guns recovered from Nashville bomber in 2019 went unclaimed at MNPD evidence facility

The guns that AQW's girlfriend reported as his were taken in by police, but were never claimed.

 

[indicolite22]

Nashville bombing: Bomber's life was 'spiraling out of control'

Chief Drake gave a briefing to Metro Council yesterday. Bob Mendes, mentioned below, is a Council member.

"Chief Drake indicated that Warner's life was spiraling out of control and that Warner was around (I think Drake said) 'crack heads and drug addicts' while his life was spiraling. There were apparently problems with family members," Mendes shared on Twitter.

More info on the bombing in Mendes' Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/mendesbob/status/1344755863358205952

Also from the article:

Council Member Freddie O'Connell reported Metro Nashville Fire Department Chief William Swann confirmed cadaver dogs detected human remains in buildings at risk of collapse.

Mendes stated on Twitter that the police believe the remains belong to the suicide bomber.

 

[indicolite22]

Law enforcement, FBI, finds missing cats after Nashville bombing | wbir.com

Officials said that no other pets were known to be missing following the explosion on Christmas morning.

Video of owners being reunited with their pets:
https://twitter.com/MNPDNashville/status/1344766114698579969

ETA: One of the cat owners recorded a 45-second video of his apartment seemingly right after the blast and posted it on Twitter yesterday. He's heard calling the cat.

 

[MajorHoople]

Guns recovered from Nashville bomber in 2019 went unclaimed at MNPD evidence facility

The guns that AQW's girlfriend reported as his were taken in by police, but were never claimed.

A Raven .25 ACP and a Jennings .380 ACP? Well, no wonder Warner didn't want them returned. They're junk.

 

[Betty P]

A Raven .25 ACP and a Jennings .380 ACP? Well, no wonder Warner didn't want them returned. They're junk.

He probably didn't want to risk being questioned by LE if he went to pick them up. Just bought new ones.

 

[MajorHoople]

He probably didn't want to risk being questioned by LE if he went to pick them up. Just bought new ones.

Yes, that makes sense. But even if he were legal to own firearms I can't imagine why he would have such poor quality products. He was a technically competent person.

I guess I'm wondering if they were really his.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

A recent New York Post article, about accused Nashville Bomber Anthony Quinn Warner, contained an AP photo that appears to show the remains of the RV he allegedly used in the Nashville explosion. We’ve done a close-up examination of that photo and found some other things as well.

First, the photo above shows that most of the street debris, present in earlier photos, has been removed.

Several men are digging in a shallow crater about six feet wide and 18 inches deep. One fireman is holding a broom, another, wearing tactical headgear is digging inside the small crater. A third, in tactical headgear, is holding an ax with a yellow fiberglass handle. A man in hazmat gear is to their left. Four other men, two with “ATF” prints on their blue helmets’ sides, are standing by as well.

We believe that they are excavating the small crater in search of remains of the explosive device used in the bombing. The men in the tactical gear are likely FBI or ATF Explosive Ordnance Disposal specialists.

After a bombing, an extensive search is made to find any piece of the device for analysis, reconstruction of the detonation mechanism, and testing for chemical residues left by the blast. This small crater is consistent with an explosive device of low destructive power like a volatile gas but not a liquid, which burns, rather than explosively detonates, when ignited.
Analysis of the RV Used in Nashville Explosion | SOFREP

 

[indicolite22]

It's interesting how some suggest, analyzing videos of the blast, that the explosion was caused by an air-fuel bomb, but some other "sources close to the investigation" mention purchases of chemical precursors for making explosives and traces on nitroglycerin found on a tree trunk at the bomb site.

 

[dotr]

Happy New Year everyone, the cat came back!

 

[killarney rose]

Happy news
WATCH: Missing cats reunited with owners after downtown Nashville bombing | wbir.com

 

[dixiegirl1035]

It's interesting how some suggest, analyzing videos of the blast, that the explosion was caused by an air-fuel bomb, but some other "sources close to the investigation" mention purchases of chemical precursors for making explosives and traces on nitroglycerin found on a tree trunk at the bomb site.

Are they mutually exclusive?

 

[MajorHoople]

The television show Modern Marvels did a segment on a type of explosion called a BLEVE "Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion". The Nashville explosion resembles something like this.

 

[indicolite22]

Are they mutually exclusive?

According to the article below, for a fuel-air device you only need liquified fuel (like propane, methane, acetylene or natural gas) and perhaps some black powder for automated detonation.

Nashville’s Big Bomb Was a Very Rare Device, Experts Think

 

[indicolite22]

Nashville Police Say There Was 'No Evidence or Reasonable Suspicion' of Anthony Warner Building Bomb Last Year - Tennessee Star

“Officer Pollard recalls the attorney saying that Warner [was] capable of making a bomb, but he didn’t believe he was doing so,” stated Drake.
...
The attorney also claimed that he never knew that no further investigation occurred thereafter.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

According to the article below, for a fuel-air device you only need liquified fuel (like propane, methane, acetylene or natural gas) and perhaps some black powder for automated detonation.

Nashville’s Big Bomb Was a Very Rare Device, Experts Think

Thanks, but again, are they mutually exclusive? Could he have done both?

 

[indicolite22]

A recent New York Post article, about accused Nashville Bomber Anthony Quinn Warner, contained an AP photo that appears to show the remains of the RV he allegedly used in the Nashville explosion. We’ve done a close-up examination of that photo and found some other things as well.

First, the photo above shows that most of the street debris, present in earlier photos, has been removed.

Several men are digging in a shallow crater about six feet wide and 18 inches deep. One fireman is holding a broom, another, wearing tactical headgear is digging inside the small crater. A third, in tactical headgear, is holding an ax with a yellow fiberglass handle. A man in hazmat gear is to their left. Four other men, two with “ATF” prints on their blue helmets’ sides, are standing by as well.

We believe that they are excavating the small crater in search of remains of the explosive device used in the bombing. The men in the tactical gear are likely FBI or ATF Explosive Ordnance Disposal specialists.

After a bombing, an extensive search is made to find any piece of the device for analysis, reconstruction of the detonation mechanism, and testing for chemical residues left by the blast. This small crater is consistent with an explosive device of low destructive power like a volatile gas but not a liquid, which burns, rather than explosively detonates, when ignited.
Analysis of the RV Used in Nashville Explosion | SOFREP

Quote from the article:

This small crater is consistent with an explosive device of low destructive power like a volatile gas but not a liquid, which burns, rather than explosively detonates, when ignited.

According to the article, the condition of the RV wreckage also points to a gas explosion rather than a high explosive detonation. In the latter case the vehicle would have been blown up into the air and its parts would have been more scattered.

RV frame wreckage:

 

[indicolite22]

Thanks, but again, are they mutually exclusive? Could he have done both?

I have no knowledge of explosives, but to my understanding it would have been like using two different types of bombs in one attack. One type would be a hassle enough.