Anthony Warner, the man who has been identified as the perpetrator in the Christmas bombing at Nashville, Tennessee, United States, was a ‘loner’ IT consultant, reported NBC news on Monday.
The reports said that according to people who knew him, Anthony had recently retired as an information technology consultant.
"He was a loner," Schmoldt said. "I never saw anybody go into his house. I never saw him have anybody over," Steve Schmoldt, Warner's next-door neighbor since 2001 was quoted saying in the NBC report.
The motive behind the bombing has not been released, as investigation is still ongoing into the blast which took place in the morning of December 25 on 2nd Avenue North in downtown Nashville, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent for Public Affairs Doug Korneski.
A recorded message that indicated a bomb would explode in 15 minutes was heard coming from the RV before it exploded.
The message had a voice that sounded like that of a woman and repeated with an undistinguished American accent in a monotone characteristic of public announcements like, "this area must be evacuated now" and "if you can hear this message evacuate now" interspersed with a countdown.
The following day, federal agents searched what was confirmed to be Warner's home in Antioch, Tennessee, about 11 miles from the site of the blast.
Officials believed there was no indication that anyone else was involved in the explosion.
The explosion caused structural damage to several buildings, fires and power outages in the region.
Three people were injured but not in critical condition. Anthony himself was the only person killed in the bombing.
