‘World will never forget me,’ Nashville bomber told neighbour

Anthony Quinn Warner is seen on surveillance footage

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The man who blew himself up in the Nashville car-bombing on Christmas day told a neighbour the world would ‘never forget me’ in the days before the attack.

Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, devastated a block of the city in Tennessee and injured three people when his mobile home exploded in the early hours of December 25th.

When a neighbour asked him ‘if Santa is going to bring you anything good for Christmas?’, Warner replied ‘Oh, yeah, Nashville and the world is never going to forget me,” the Associated Press reported.

Rick Laude, the neighbour, said Warner was ‘just quiet’ and ‘nothing about him raised any red flags’

Warner left behind clues that suggest he planned the bombing and intended to kill himself but a clear motive remains elusive.

Investigators work near the site of the explosion

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“We hope to get an answer. Sometimes, it’s just not possible,” David Rausch, the director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, said on Monday in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show.

“The best way to find motive is to talk to the individual. We will not be able to do that in this case.”

Investigators are analyzing Warner’s belongings collected during the investigation, including a computer and a portable storage drive, and continue to interview witnesses as they try to identify a motive for the explosion, a law enforcement official said. 

A review of his financial transactions also uncovered purchases of potential bomb-making components, the official said.

Warner also apparently gave away his home in Antioch, a Nashville suburb, to a Los Angeles woman a month before the bombing.

 A property record dated Nov. 25 indicates Warner transferred the home to the woman in exchange for no money after living there for decades. The woman’s signature is not on that document.