Nashville Police Releases Video of Christmas Day Explosion

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) on Sunday evening released one video of the Christmas Day explosion that rocked the downtown area.

MNPD had a camera station at the intersection of 2nd Avenue N and Commerce Street. A law enforcement officer can be seen walking around the intersection. At the 17-second mark of the video, a huge explosion and bright fireball can be seen in the background, turning the downtown street into an eerie red color.

Here is the video posted Sunday night by MNPD:

MNPD scoured through dozens of hours from surveillance cameras in the area, and officials stated that no "suspicious" person was ever seen leaving the vehicle that exploded.

This video released Sunday night is just one of many they investigated.

Law enforcement officers first responded to shots being fired around 5:30 a.m. on 2nd Avenue on Christmas morning. Meanwhile, a suspicious camper van broadcast messages that warned people to leave the area.

MNPD was en route to the scene when the RV exploded outside of an AT&T transmission building.

The blast not only caused extensive damage to businesses in the nearby downtown area, it affected cell phone coverage and disrupted hospital and police service systems throughout Tennessee and parts of Alabama and Kentucky.

Authorities have identified Anthony Quinn Warner as the Nashville bomber from Christmas morning and said he died in the explosion that injured three people.

"Anthony Warner is the bomber, he was present when the bomb went off and he perished in the bombing," said U.S. Attorney Donald Cochran at a press briefing Sunday afternoon.

According to WKRN, DNA of human remains from the blast scene matched with Warner's.

The explosion happened in a downtown area of Nashville where there were several shops and restaurants.

No motive is known at the time, but authorities are looking into a possible link to Warner's father's former employment with BellSouth, which merged into AT&T in 2006.

"The fact that the father worked in the same company is definitely a lead investigators would pursue," an official, who wished to remain anonymous, told Newsweek.

"In an investigation of this magnitude it would be logical to see if there is a nexus between adverse employment action of the father, and the location of where the bombing took place."

There is speculation about Warner's possible ties to conspiracy theories concerning 5G technology, as previously reported.

"We're looking at every possible motive that could be involved," said Douglas Korneski, special agent in charge of the FBI's Memphis field office. "It's just going to take us some time. Our investigative team is turning over every stone."