In Tennessee, US, Police investigating a camper van blast that injured three people in Nashville  has named a suspect after DNA was gathered at the scene. Lawyer Donald Cochran identified Anthony Q. Warner on Sunday as the bomber in the camper RV blast that shook downtown Nashville. Police Chief John Drake had recognized Warner, 63, as a person of interest for the situation. He is believed to have died in the explosion.

The Metro Nashville Police Department on Sunday posted a video of the blast. The 39-second video shows an individual leaving the scene, followed by a blast that shakes the MNPD camera and ousts a traffic signal. The video, which was posted on Twitter, lingers on the destruction left by the blast. Investigators said that they do not believe that there was any other individual involved. Authorities reviewed hours of surveillance footage  and stated that they just observed only Warner involved.

What is known about Warner?

Anthony Warner had a solitary job as an information technology professional, halting in to different workplaces to fix PCs. He was 63. He was not married. His neighbours scarcely knew him. A neighbour in Antioch depicted Warner as “a computer nerd”. Steve Schmoldt, who lived nearby to Warner for over twenty years, depicted him as “friendly” and “calm”, adding, “I guess some people would say he was a little odd.” Mr Schmoldt also said that Warner gave no sign of having held solid political convictions or allegiances. “He never had any yard signs or banners in his window or anything like that,” Steve Schmoldt added.

Mr. Warner had experience in working with electronics as a contractual worker in information technology for organizations in Nashville region, and furthermore had a robber alarm business that was enlisted in Tennessee from 1993 to 1998, as indicated by state records.

He had sent an email to one of his customers three weeks back to say that he was resigning. He began shedding possessions. He told his ex girlfriend that he had cancer and gave her his vehicle. Records show that he transferred ownership of his home on the day before Thanksgiving. But he made sure to hold on to one last thing which was his R.V., a Thor Motor Coach Chateau that he kept in his back yard.

What happened in Nashville?

He parked the vehicle at around 1:22 a.m. on Christmas morning on Second Avenue North in midtown Nashville, in the heart of a region of honky-tonks, cafés and boot shops that would regularly be packed. The place was however quiet in the early hours of a holiday morning. The R.V. had been rigged with explosives and a speaker set to play a warning and a song-“Downtown” by Petula Clark, a hit delivered in 1964 celebrating the bright lights and bustle of a vibrant city.

After some time, cops heard the speaker’s message around the area and rushed to clear as many people out of nearby apartments and hotels as they could. Just before first light, the R.V. exploded; its blackout reverberated across blocks. Trash was flung a few streets away. Mr. Warner was inside the R.V. . It is believed that he was the solitary individual who died in the blast. No motive behind the blast has been identified yet. Douglas Korneski, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I. field office in Memphis is leading the investigation to pinpoint the exact cause and motive of the blast.