Woman who reported Nashville bomber files lawsuit over reward

A woman connected with the Christmas day bomber in Nashville has filed a lawsuit, claiming she should receive the $284,000 in rewards offered in the aftermath of the blast.

The suit, filed by Pamela Perry, seeks the reward because she came forward “at great personal risk to aid law enforcement in identifying” Anthony Warner as the bomber.

Warner detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville around 6:30 a.m. on Christmas morning last year. The blast significantly damaged buildings in the Second Avenue and Commerce Street area, and damaged an AT&T switch facility, which crippled telephone and internet services across the state.

Warner was the only person killed by the bomb.

An investigation conducted in the months following determined Warner acted alone.

In the days following the explosion, Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis offered a $250,000 reward, and Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. offered $34,500 to anyone with information leading to the bomber or bomber’s identification.

Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp., Camping World and Marcus Lemonis are named in the lawsuit filed in Davidson County Chancery Court.

Perry wants the reward money because she called the FBI on Christmas Day to provide them with information about Warner and spoke with them the following day, according to the lawsuit. The suit filed Nov. 19 claims the information led to the identification of Warner as the bomber.

It was the second time Perry spoke with police about Warner.

In August 2019, Perry told Nashville police Warner “was building bombs in the RV trailer at his residence,” a Nashville police report stated. The report stated Warner was Perry’s boyfriend. Jim Roberts, the attorney for Perry, said the day after the lawsuit was filed that the two were never romantically involved.

Nashville police forwarded information about Warner to the FBI.

The investigation stopped later that month after an FBI background check provided no previous records on Warner, and law enforcement was prevented from interviewing him or going onto his property.

Roberts said the lawsuit is a mechanism for doing the fair and right thing.

In April, the convention bureau split the $34,500 reward between the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Nashville police for their response and help in the investigation.

Butch Spyridon, CEO of the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp, said he had not seen the lawsuit and therefore couldn’t comment as of Friday night.

Representatives for Camping World and Lemonis could not be reached for comment.