Nashville Bomber’s Anti-Police Rants Raises Red Flags For Ex Co-Worker

Anthony Quinn Warner, the man suspected by police to have detonated a bomb from within an RV in downtown Nashville in the early hours of Christmas morning may have had some negative feelings toward law enforcement. According to a former co-worker, Warner used to regularly spout anti-police rhetoric.

Over 40 years ago Warner would allegedly speak to his co-worker Tom Lundborg about his disdain for police officers.

Around the late 1970s when the two men worked together for Lundborg’s father’s security system company, A.C.E. Alarms, Lundborg recalls Warner telling him, “I hate cops. They’re all corrupt.”

For at least “a couple years” the two would work together almost daily driving to different job sites. The long car rides would sometimes turn to conversations about the police.

Lundborg remembers Warner saying, “Never trust a cop” during one of their now decades-old car-ride chats.

These photos were taken in #Nashville at the blast site. #FBI and #ATF Evidence Response Teams (ERT) continue to process the scene of the Christmas Day explosion in Nashville, TN. The teams are searching for evidence to assist in the ongoing investigation. pic.twitter.com/zhit76L1k5

— FBI Memphis (@FBIMemphis) December 29, 2020

Police were already in the area responding to a report of shots being fired when they spotted the suspicious RV, which played an ominous warning before switching to Petula Clark’s “Downtown.”

In the minutes leading up to the explosion recorded audio could be heard blasting from the RV warning people to evacuate the area.

The bomb went off as promised just minutes later at approximately 6:30 a.m., damaging dozens of business and apartment buildings and wounding three people, and killing only Warner inside the RV.

After the blast investigators discovered human tissue found among the rubble that was a direct match for Warner’s DNA.