The RV played a frightening recording telling residents to evacuate as a bomb was about to go off. That was followed by a 15-minute countdown until detonation.
But one expert believes that rather than an attempt to minimize deaths the person who made the recording wanted to draw first responders in.
putting this back on my TL for anyone that hasn’t seen it. this is real footage, real audio. this message was being broadcast from the RV that exploded. #nashvillebombing pic.twitter.com/VGWTLaz0WD
— camille 🌷✨ (@angclreyes) December 26, 2020
“I kind of think it was probably an idea to get first responders to come in,” Bill Ryan, an ex-NYPD Detective, told Fox News on Saturday.
“You have to really wonder what the motivation of the bombers [are] is – I don’t think this was one person, it was probably an organized group of people,” he said.
Videos have circulated on social media showing the RV making the announcement and others that show people running and hiding for cover.
Police officers, who are being hailed as heroes, rushed to evacuate residents as the ominous messages from the RV played over and over again.
“These officers didn’t care about themselves,” Metro Police Chief John Drake said. “They didn’t think about that. They cared about the citizens of Nashville. They went in and we’d be talking not about the debris that we have here but potential people.”
