Large explosion, buildings damaged in downtown Nashville

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by: WKRN Web Staff
Posted: Dec 25, 2020 / 07:03 AM CST / Updated: Dec 25, 2020 / 08:40 AM CST


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A large explosion was reported in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning.
The explosion happened in the area of Second Avenue and Broadway near Commerce Street occurred around 6:30 am Friday. Heavy black smoke can be seen rising above the affected area.

The Metro Nashville Office of Emergency Management told News 2 a parked RV exploded and caused damage to several buildings. They said crews are currently assessing the damage but no injuries have been reported. Officials with the OEM also reported foul play was not suspected at this time.

There was a large police presence in this area along with fire crews. News 2 has reached out to Metro Police and The Fire Department to learn more.
This is a developing story. Stay with News 2 and WKRN.com for updates.

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Looks intentional. Religion of peace? BLM/Antifa? Right wing spergs?

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Agree that it's interesting, though entirely possible a red herring (someone reuploading the video to post on a forum somewhere etc).

The video on YouTube LOOKS to have been posted at 2020-12-25T16:41:50Z. Nashville is -6GMT No Daylight Savings/Zulu time, so that would make it posted at 1041 local?

EDIT: The tweet is at 2020-12-25T16:52:51.600Z, so the YouTube video definitely came first.

Mc G makes me think they might have the last name McGee. Or some similar name like McGrady (although McGee is a particularly good fit). Of course, there are plenty of McGees, even plenty of Stephanie or Steven McGees or Sean McGees in TN alone.

I did find a review from a few days ago of a Franklin, KY hotel (less than an hour's drive away) by a user using the username 'SMcG' on a hotel site.

Suspiciously, this person is from Florida. Likely bomber?

https://archive.md/vtdjZ

Of course, as this video was obviously posted after the bombing, it makes sense that someone with any common sense would just make up an arbitrary name to post this shit to cause further confusion.

I checked Linkedin and I found a few Scott McGees that work or worked for AT&T but none came up in the Tennessee area. I also checked Sam, Steve, Steven, Stephan, Samuel, Shane, Sean*, Scott, and Samantha McGee but none of the others came close to the username or had ties to Tennessee (in Linkedin). Haven't checked any McGrady's, I'll do that tomorrow. Could very well have missed something because I'm no professional lol.

Gmail requires at least 6 characters for an email so smcg wouldn't work, so they'd have to extend it by a few characters. I checked a few different combos and found that both smcgee and scott.mcgee were taken. I then checked to see if I could find anyone who was in Tennessee and/or Florida with similar user names. Also it looks like Naples and San Fernandina are in opposite sides of the state... :/

Sean is in California but Scott is in Tennessee. Checking on Facebook I did find a Scott McGee (I searched Facebook with scott.mcgee@gmail.com) that was from Nashville and was in Fernandina Beach Florida. Ages didn't match up between the sites despite the hit on the email in Facebook. Nothing I'd bet on though and likely is a nothingburger. Also he could have intentionally set the wrong information on Facebook. Just thought it might be helpful for someone else... Doesn't seem to be active at all though and he'd be a literal boomer. It didn't have much information and looks like it hasn't been updated in years. He doesn't have any ties to AT&T. He has/had a PO Box which is/was P.O. Box 391, Cowan, TN 37318-0391. 5370 Georgia Crossing Rd, Cowan TN 37318 was listed as a former address. However, it's about an hours drive from Nashville...

Also, like you said, it could just be someone reuploading it for a forum, maybe they owned a business there, etc. Could very well be a literal Q Boomer that was just in the right place at the right time and happened to upload the video. Also the sites I looked people up are very likely out dated and missing info. Not all searches included emails or aliases.

*I realized I didn't try other spellings of Sean like Shaun or Shawn.

More Edits:

This Shawn is in Florida but not Tennessee.

Ditto with this one.

That's it for now. Idk if this can be useful to anyone, but it was fun digging around, but I got to go.

 

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I checked Linkedin and I found a few Scott McGees that worked for AT&T but none came up in the area. I also checked Sam, Steve, Steven, Stephan, Samuel, Shane, Scott, and Samantha McGee but none of the others came close to the username or had ties to Tennessee. Haven't checked any McGrady's, I'll do that tomorrow. Could very well have missed something because I'm no professional lol.

Gmail requires at least 6 characters for an email so smcg wouldn't work, so they'd have to extend it by a few characters. I checked a few different combos and found that both smcgee and scott.mcgee were taken. I then checked to see if I could find anyone who was in Tennessee and/or Florida with similar user names.

Sean is in California but Scott is in Tennessee. Checking on Facebook I did find a Scott McGee (I searched Facebook with scott.mcgee@gmail.com) that was from Nashville and was in Fernandina Beach Florida. Ages didn't match up between the sites despite the hit on the email in Facebook. Nothing I'd bet on though and likely is a nothingburger. Also he could have intentionally set the wrong information on Facebook. Just thought it might be helpful for someone else. Doesn't seem to be active at all though and he'd be a literal boomer. It didn't have much information and looks like it hasn't been updated in years.
Also, like you said, it could just be someone reuploading it for a forum, maybe they owned a business there, etc. Could very well be a literal Q Boomer that was just in the right place at the right time and happened to upload the video. Also the sites I looked people up are very likely out dated and missing info. Not all searches included emails or aliases.

Huh.. that's an interesting catch there.

It's a bit unfortunate, up until the demise of Google Plus we could have found the Google ID from the YouTube channel for the old account and dug further (into photos, maps etc) from there, but I don't believe this is possible anymore.

I don't think there's much that can be done beyond speculation at this point unfortunately. I guess the only thing to do would be to try and work back from the angle of the camera, to where it was installed. But it would be really weird if a camera could have been installed to be positioned that stably except by someone who owned/rented the place it was installed.

 

[Dr. Sexbot]

Apologies if this was already shared, I just hit the highlights. I think this was clearly a case of "domestic terror via committee"

My actual bet's on it being an old, sad, retired, beaten-down engineer type with nothing left to live for. No particular axe to grind, hence the warnings, but wanted to go out with something other than a whimper. Maybe the poor guy's kid trooned out and there was nothing more to life.

 

[Belligerent Monk]

The sperg in me thinks the oil explosion in New York s couple days prior and this are somehow related.

 

[longjohn]

I just saw this through memeology admittedly, but trying to look more into it. The thought that the "evacuation" recording could've actually been a failed ploy to lure people out into the street is chilling. I guess the 15 minute count down prematurely went off, possibly intentionally? Watching the clips, I definitely get the impression that's actually closer to the truth with the RV detonating as the recording was still advising people to leave their homes. If that was the intention I think it makes it far more insidious than a smoke screen for a less lethal crime.

Political motivations given the state of the country would make complete sense, but the beefy blast does make it seem like they were testing to see how much the could hit ATT for. E: these aren't mutually exclusive things, and speaking of motivations, this could be a double-whammy of sorts.

Then again it could have just been a loon who hates Mondays Fridays with all the shooting reported too.

One Hell of a fucking Christmas.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

This is a truly braindead terrorism plot if it is one considering there's fucking no one walking around at 6/7 AM on a cold Christmas morning (there's snow on the ground in Nashville...) in an area where most of the shops and bars are fucked anyway because of Chinaflu.

Either it was someone committing suicide (Christmas is a big day for suicides) in a way designed to get attention or even the Muzzies are on meth in Tennessee.

It was probably terrorism solely by property damage and the perpetrator(s) didn't want to be caught by eyewitnesses, which implies they have cold feet, are testing the waters and intend to escalate if the coast proves clear.

 

[Total Annihilation]

As others as theorized here; I'm thinking its a disgruntled ex-employee of AT&T who wanted revenge on em and some of the people.
From what I've seen these cable guy folks get a ton of crap thrown at them from their bosses and some of the people (at least in shitty Illinois).
Or perhaps this person wanted their SkyKing moment.
However it turns out, I'm hoping for the best lulz to come out of this, especially if no-one else besides the autistic perp died.

 

[Quijibo69]

Kinda strange.

 

[Jason Blaha's Hat]

It was probably terrorism solely by property damage and the perpetrator(s) didn't want to be caught by eyewitnesses, which implies they have cold feet, are testing the waters and intend to escalate if the coast proves clear.

Highly doubtful, unless our guy really hates restaurants and bars on that street.

As others as theorized here; I'm thinking its a disgruntled ex-employee of AT&T who wanted revenge on em and some of the people.
From what I've seen these cable guy folks get a ton of crap thrown at them from their bosses and some of the people (at least in shitty Illinois).
Or perhaps this person wanted their SkyKing moment.
However it turns out, I'm hoping for the best lulz to come out of this, especially if no-one else besides the autistic perp died.

As I said before, the RV was not in front of the AT&T tower. The only reason people are talking about it is because it is a nearby landmark, and also probably had it’s glass doors shattered from the shockwave. Just look at an aerial view of the area, if he wanted to hit AT&T he would have parked one street over in front of the tower.

 

[NJBear]

Someone high up at ATT&T said "Merry Christmas".

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Lol @ people automatically thinking early on it may be a meth lab explosion. Everyone knows there's no way any explosion in the midwest or south can't be meth related amirite? I'm very curious as to what the motives were for doing this in a place like Nashville during Christmas. Christmas makes it sound kebab related but I don't think the city has too many of them.

IIRC it has the highest Kurdish immigrant population in the US. They don’t do a lot of terrorist bombings though, usually just shoot each other over drugs and gang stuff.

 

[OttoWest]

No manifesto + human remains = attention whore suicide

Reminds me of the Burger Up suicide in Nashville about ten years ago. Husband and wife open a local chain of upscale burger joints in the hipster parts of town.
Marriage goes sour, husband vandalizes the main restaurant by scrawling graffiti against his wife all over the interior and exterior of the building so all passersby can see it, and then goes inside and blows his brains out— all in front of the floor to ceiling dining room windows.

 

[LurkTrawl]

Huh.. that's an interesting catch there.

It's a bit unfortunate, up until the demise of Google Plus we could have found the Google ID from the YouTube channel for the old account and dug further (into photos, maps etc) from there, but I don't believe this is possible anymore.

I don't think there's much that can be done beyond speculation at this point unfortunately. I guess the only thing to do would be to try and work back from the angle of the camera, to where it was installed. But it would be really weird if a camera could have been installed to be positioned that stably except by someone who owned/rented the place it was installed.

The feds get paid to investigate this stuff, and they have a lot more information at their disposal. GPS phone data, rental records, etc. No point bothering in trying to figure it out, hell they probably already have the guy who did it in custody. Probably had him within a few hours, even.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

The feds get paid to investigate this stuff, and they have a lot more information at their disposal. GPS phone data, rental records, etc. No point bothering in trying to figure it out, hell they probably already have the guy who did it in custody. Probably had him within a few hours, even.

I think the perp is dead. Like the fragments of human remains they found were probably of the guy who did it.

 

[the fall of man]

CCTV video at ZeroHedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/powerful-explosion-rocks-downtown-nashville

Archive: https://archive.vn/Hg0IT

 

[ColtWalker1847]

As I said before, the RV was not in front of the AT&T tower. The only reason people are talking about it is because it is a nearby landmark, and also probably had it’s glass doors shattered from the shockwave. Just look at an aerial view of the area, if he wanted to hit AT&T he would have parked one street over in front of the tower.

It was across the street. That big red building that's on one side of the street in every picture of the area. That's the AT&T building.

And lol at thinking you can just park an RV anywhere downtown.

 

[Narr Then]

Before it came out about the recorded gunfire and announcement, I thought it was just an accident...someone who lived in his beat up old van, had fucked up his bodged gas and electricity supply, and died when it went boom.

It's the recordings that make it mega suss...it's a new angle on these kind of things isn't it. That's what makes me think it's an independent action rather than an organised one, it's extremely sloppy.

 

[LaxerBRO]

I've changed my mind, I'm going with bank robbers, like this was phase 1 to knock off communications for some super badass Nakatomi Plaza type heist. I don't know what is of interest in Nashville, maybe some rednecks heisted the Country Music Hall of Fame.

More like Die Hard 3, where the terrorist force the cops to use 911 and police dispatch then bomb the subway to intentionally trip the sesimic sensors at the Federal Reserve

 

[ShortBusDriver]

The feds get paid to investigate this stuff, and they have a lot more information at their disposal. GPS phone data, rental records, etc. No point bothering in trying to figure it out, hell they probably already have the guy who did it in custody. Probably had him within a few hours, even.

Disagree 110%

How many ANTIFA goons were busted by the internet in the past six month and doxxed to law enforcement? Thousands of internet users pouring over high quality footage and making the connections.

That doesn't even get into the Feds high profile fuckups like Richard Jewel or thinking the Unibomber was middle eastern.

The FBI's ability to stop terrorism is largely limited to their own goofy entrapment schemes that they put into motion themselves.

 

[LurkTrawl]

Disagree 110%

How many ANTIFA goons were busted by the internet in the past six month and doxxed to law enforcement? Thousands of internet users pouring over high quality footage and making the connections.

That doesn't even get into the Feds high profile fuckups like Richard Jewel or thinking the Unibomber was middle eastern.

The FBI's ability to stop terrorism is largely limited to their own goofy entrapment schemes that they put into motion themselves.

Well they do have access to the NSA. I'd imagine that'd be pretty advantageous assuming they're not retarded.