Washington (AFP) - The 63-year-old man who killed himself by detonating a homemade bomb in his camper van in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day acted alone and may have been suffering from paranoia, the FBI said Monday.
Anthony Warner, of Antioch, Tennessee died in the December 25, 2020 explosion which injured at least three other people.
Warner's actions were "determined to not be related to terrorism," the FBI said in a report, and he did not appear to have any "broader ideological motive."
The camper van detonated on a downtown Nashville street at 6:30 am on Christmas morning after playing a taped warning message over a loudspeaker, allowing nearby residents to evacuate.
The FBI said Warner, "acting alone, built and ultimately detonated the vehicle-borne improvised explosive device."
The FBI said it was "an intentional act in an effort to end his own life, driven in part by a totality of life stressors."
These included "paranoia" and "long-held individualized beliefs adopted from several eccentric conspiracy theories," the FBI said.
The huge explosion in historic downtown Nashville, the United States' country music capital, damaged about 40 buildings.
