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On December 25th, 2020, US Christmas Day, a bomb detonated in Nashville, Tennessee
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A bomb detonated in downtown Nashville, Tennessee last year on December 25th. Now the ex-girlfriend of the man who committed the suicide attack is suing for the reward money totaling 284,000 US dollars. Pamela Perry filed a lawsuit with the court on Friday for the amount because she "came forward at great personal risk to help law enforcement with the identification of Anthony Warner," US media reported.
Warner parked a motorhome in the middle of a Nashville tourist area early on Christmas Day 2020 morning before triggering the blast that killed him, injured several others and badly damaged dozen of buildings, including a key network facility owned by North American telecommunications giant AT&T.
The explosion disrupted telephone and data services for days within a radius of several hundred kilometers.
After the explosion, Marcus Lemonis, CEO of Camping World, offered a reward of $ 250,000.
The Nashville Convention and Visitors Corporation offered $ 34,500 to anyone who provided information to identify the assassin.
The $ 34,500 ultimately went to law enforcement, including the Nashville Police Department.
Warner died in the attack, but the money was allegedly offered for his "capture and conviction."
On Friday, employees at the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corporation said they had not seen the lawsuit and were unable to comment, but CEO Butch Spyridon told a TV station back in May that hundreds of leads had been received and an FBI report was being made thanked law enforcement but did not identify a whistleblower.
"I have no records to say this helped more than anything," Spyridon said.
A spokesman for Marcus Lemonis told a TV station that the reward was for information that led to the "arrest and conviction" of the person responsible.
Warner died in the explosion, so he was neither captured nor convicted.
However, it wasn't the first time Perry had spoken to the police about Warner.
In August 2019, Perry told Nashville police that Warner "was building bombs in the RV near his home," a police report said.
The police then passed the information on to the FBI.
The investigation was later closed after an FBI check revealed Warner's criminal record, preventing police from interrogating him or entering his property.
Perry's attorney Jim Roberts said the lawsuit is aimed at doing what is just and right.
An investigation conducted in the months following the attack found that Warner acted alone.
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