FOG BLOG U.S. NEWS LOG: NASHVILLE BOMBER IDENTIFIED:
POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE NASHVILLE SHOOTER AND ARE WAITING TO MATCH THE IDENTITY OF THE REAMAINS FOUND AT THE SCENE TO THE BOMBER!.......Authorities have identified Anthony Quinn Warner as the Nashville bomber after matching his DNA to remains found at the scene of the explosion.
"We've come to the conclusion that an individual named Anthony Warner is the bomber. He was present when the bomb went off and then he perished," said Don Cochran, US attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, during a Sunday evening news conference.
DNA taken from the scene was matched to Warner by forensic analysts, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch said at the news conference.
Warner, 63, of nearby Antioch, Tennessee, had already been identified as a person of interest in the explosion of a recreational vehicle in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning. The blast damaged dozens of buildings, injured three people and knocked out AT&T wireless service in and around Nashville.......There is no indication that anybody else was involved and no motive has been determined, said Douglas Korneski, FBI special agent in charge of the Memphis field office.
During a press conference, Korneski declined to comment when asked if the blast could be considered domestic terrorism. Forensic analysts at the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations matched DNA taken from the explosion scene to Warner,
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