Spotlight moves to LA entertainment executive Michelle Swing as Christmas bomber plot thickens

The mystery surrounding the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville deepened on Monday as authorities tried to figure out who played an important role in the circle of the deceased perpetrator.

The bomber, who detonated his RV on Sunday killing himself and injuring three others, has been identified by police as Anthony Quinn Warner.

Warner, 63, was a loner who went to great lengths to keep other people away from him.

Now some of the focus is shifting to an entertainment executive based in Los Angeles to whom Warner gave two homes worth $409,000 for free. The woman, 29-year old Michelle Swing, claimed on Monday that she had no knowledge of the property exchange.

Swing told the Daily Mail that she was unaware Quinn had signed the $160,000 Bakertown Road property raided on Saturday away to her last month via a quitclaim deed.

Swing’s signature does not appear on the November 25 transfer, according to the outlet.

“In the state of Tennessee you can deed property to someone else without their consent or their signature or anything,” Swing is quoted as saying by the outlet.

“I didn’t even buy the house he just deeded it over to me without my knowledge. So this all very weird to me, that’s about all I can say,” she added.

However, Warner also transfered another home on Bakertown Road to Swing via a quitclaim deed last year.

The $249,000 house had previously belonged a member of his family and Warner had only been in possession of it for five months before again giving it to Swing for free. She later also used a quitclaim to give the house to another person.  

Swing declined to say whether she had ever met Warner or whether she had family links to him, adding: “I’ve been told to direct everything else to FBI.”

FBI agents swarmed the $160,000 property on Saturday morning in their hunt for the mystery RV driver behind the devastating blast outside Nashville’s AT&T building.

The Christmas morning explosion is now thought to have been the result of a suicide bombing after it was revealed that human remains had been recovered at the scene and officials said they were not looking for another suspect.

Investigators believe that Warner was paranoid about 5G technology being used to spy on Americans.  Some have said that is why his RV exploded outside of an AT&T transmission center.

As well as refusing to discuss her ties, Swing is now hiding her own online footprint, deleting social media, including Facebook and LinkedIn.

Before they were erased, however, the accounts gave some background into the music executive who for years has lived more than 2,000 miles from Tennessee.

She has family in Lenoir City, about 165 miles from Nashville, and has previously lived there, records show.

She also studied marketing and business at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, her LinkedIn shows.

Her career was initially also based in the Volunteer State until she moved to California in 2012, starting in San Francisco, where she worked as a project manager for Live Music & Festival Solutions.

She worked at StubHub between February 2016 and September 2018, then moved to her current home base in LA in October 2018, her LinkedIn showed.

She is currently an executive in artist development for Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), which has refused to comment.