Suspected Nashville bomber Anthony Quinn Warner told neighbour ‘the world is never going to forget me’
- Investigators still seeking motive behind Christmas morning explosion that killed Quinn himself, injured three others and damaged dozens of buildings
- Before the incident, the 63-year-old computer consultant gave away his home and a vehicle, and said he was retiring
It seemed like a friendly chat between neighbours. Only after a bomb exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning could Rick Laude grasp the sinister meaning behind his neighbour’s smiling remark that the city and the rest of the world would never forget him.
Laude said on Monday that he was speechless when he learned that authorities identified his 63-year-old neighbour, Anthony Quinn Warner, as the man suspected of detonating a bomb that killed himself, injured three other people and damaged dozens of buildings.
Laude said he saw Warner standing at his postbox less than a week before Christmas and pulled over in his car to talk. After asking how Warner’s elderly mother was doing, Laude said he casually asked him, “Is Santa going to bring you anything good for Christmas?”
Warner smiled and said, “Oh, yeah, Nashville and the world is never going to forget me,” Laude recalled.
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Laude said he did not think much of the remark and thought Warner only meant that “something good” was going to happen for him financially.