Nashville bombing: girlfriend told police in 2019 bomber was building explosives in RV, reports show

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On August 21, 2019, police received a call from a lawyer representing Pamela Perry, the woman who said she was the girlfriend of bomber Anthony Warner, Metropolitan Nashville police said in a statement Tuesday. Her lawyer, Raymond Throckmorton, said she threatened him with suicidal attacks over the phone.

When the police arrived, they found two unloaded pistols near Perry, who said they belonged to Warner. She told agents she no longer wanted them in the house and that Warner was “building bombs in the RV trailer in his hometown,” according to a MNPD report.

Police also spoke to Throckmorton, who once represented Warner and was also at Perry’s home. He told authorities that Warner “often talks about the military and bomb-making. (Throckmorton) stated that he believes the suspect knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb,” the report said.

CNN has reached out to Throckmorton for comment on his account – first reported by the Tennessean – but hasn’t heard anything yet.

In the course of their several attempts to enter the house, Warner did not want to open the door for the police, a statement from the department said, and because there was no evidence of a crime, they had no authority to enter.

MNPD asked the FBI to check its databases for Warner data and none were found, the FBI confirmed in a statement to CNN.

On Monday, David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, said Warner, 63, had not been on law enforcement’s radar before.

Days left from crime scene searches

Friday’s explosion outside an AT&T transmission building in Nashville damaged more than 40 buildings and injured at least eight people.

Investigators positively identified Warner by comparing the scene’s DNA to that of gloves and a hat from a vehicle he owned, Rausch said. The motive for the explosion is still unknown.

The blast left Nashville’s historic street in disarray, and federal investigators expect it will take until Friday to search the debris and gather all evidence from the crime scene, officials said Tuesday.

According to FBI spokesman Jason Pack, the FBI and ATF national response teams had at the time gone through half of the crime scene and opened it up to city workers for cleanup and security assessment.

Nashville residents, business owners to retrieve important items and pets from the bomb site on Christmas Day

And while authorities still have a lot of work to do to determine the trigger for the destruction, the area was opened up to nearly two dozen businessmen and residents on the outskirts of the impact site.

They were escorted by officials to buildings deemed structurally safe to pick up their important belongings – in some cases, their pets.

For many of the small business owners affected by the bombing, the damage only adds to the hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

“This year has been tough,” Pete Gibson, the owner of Pride & Glory Tattoo on 2nd Avenue, told CNN. “But if we get a little light at the end of the tunnel, it’ll all go away in two seconds.”

Raja Razek, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz, Mark Morales, Jamiel Lynch, Hollie Silverman, Eric Levenson, Amir Vera, Kay Jones and Natasha Chen contributed to this report.

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