Nashville bomber's girlfriend warned cops about explosives in RV 16 months ago

It's likely that AW, [I will not fully name him here] the guy who detonated his RV Christmas morning in downtown Nashville, TN, had been plotting his suicide bombing since August 2019, according to a new report by the Tennessean. AW's girlfriend alerted police about the possible bomb-making at that time.

“Sixteen months before [the bomber’s] RV exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, officers visited his home in Antioch after his girlfriend reported that he was making bombs in the vehicle,” the Tennessean noted, based on documents obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request.

The documents, which include a Nashville Metropolitan Police report, indicate that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation along with the FBI, were informed that AW had been working with explosives and may have been trying to wire a bomb to his RV.

The documents state that he also reportedly made threats consistent with the plan he eventually carried out, but  city, state, and federal authorities did nothing about it.

“On Aug. 21, 2019, the girlfriend told Nashville police that [the bomber] “was building bombs in the RV trailer at his residence,” the report states, according to the Tennessean. “Nashville police then forwarded the information to the FBI,” they added.

Nashville police eventually went to the woman’s home after they “were called by her attorney, Raymond Throckmorton III, who was concerned about comments she had made. When they arrived, they found her sitting on the porch with two unloaded guns nearby.”

The guns belonged to AW. and his then-girlfriend asked police to confiscate them. Throckmorton III reportedly told the police that AW “frequently talks about the military and bomb-making,” and the woman confirmed to authorities that the man “knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb.”

“According to the police report and Throckmorton [III], the woman was experiencing a mental health crisis at the time. Officers called their mobile crisis division, and after talking with the woman, she agreed to be transported by ambulance for a psychological evaluation,” the Tennessean noted.

The police then  visited the bomber’s home, and saw the RV. But they did not have sufficient evidence to search either the home or the trailer but passed what little information they had on to the TBI and FBI. 

Checks on the bomber’s name came up clear, so authorities dropped the case, forgetting that there is always a first time for whatever we do.

Nashville police also said they asked Throckmorton III to ask AW to allow law enforcement on his property but he refused. 

The lawyer, spoke to local media and seemed to accuse the Nashville police of shifting blame.

In a statement this week, the TBI admitted that the bomber, whom they claim was more interested in destruction than death, was “not on our radar” and that they had no prior knowledge of his plans or his bomb-making efforts [other than the fact they were told by the woman closest to him that he was planning to blow stuff up].

Three people were injured in the Christmas morning attack and dozens of businesses were damaged or destroyed. The FBI identified AW, who was blown to smithereens, by his DNA. They still don't have a motive and are exploring several possibilities, which I will not entertain at this time.

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