Bomber to neighbor: World ‘never going to forget me’

Investigators continue to examine the site of an explosion Sunday, Dec. 27, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. An explosion that shook the largely deserted streets of downtown early Christmas morning shattered windows, damaged buildings and wounded multiple people. AP photo/Mark Humphrey photo
Kimberlee Kruesi, Denise Lavoie and Michael BalsamoThe Associated PressThe man authorities believe was responsible for setting off a Christmas Day bomb that injured three people and damaged dozens of buildings in downtown Nashville told a neighbor days before the explosion that “Nashville and the world is never going to forget me.”Rick Laude said he saw Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, standing at his mailbox Monday, Dec. 21, and pulled over in his car to speak with him. 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?” Laude said Warner smiled and then said, “Oh, yeah, Nashville and the world is never going to forget me.”Laude, 57, a commercial truck driver, said he didn
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