Nashville Mayor John Cooper on Sunday suggested that Anthony Quinn Warner, the man identified as the Nashville bomber, targeted an AT&T Inc. switching station.
Speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Cooper said, “To all of us locally, it feels like there has to be some connection with the AT&T facility and the site of the bombing.”
Intelligence officials have also considered whether the AT&T building was targeted in the Christmas Day bombing. The blast heavily damaged the facility, knocking out cellular service in much of Tennessee, Kentucky and Northern Alabama.
Nashville investigators on Sunday identified Warner, 63, as the suspect behind the explosion. They said he died in the blast.
AT&T said Sunday morning that it had restored 96% of its wireless network, 60% of business service and 86% of consumer broadband and entertainment services. A switch station connects phone calls sent and received in the neighborhood.
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