One year and two months after the December 25th bombing in Nashville

Just three days after the bombing in downtown Nashville, TN on December 25, 2020, FBI Special Agent in Charge Doug Korneski of the FBI Memphis Field Office released the results of forensic tests of human remains recovered from the blast site on 2nd Avenue. DNA examinations of tissue samples by both the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the FBI laboratory in Quantico, VA, were consistent to those of Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, of Antioch, TN.

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Above photos were captured on February 19, 2022 - One year and two months after the December 25, 2020 bombing on Second Avenue in downtown Nashville, TN.

Alone on the Streets

One day after the Nashville bombing, the homeless remained in the area and alive with the same struggles from the previous day, the previous year and in some cases, the previous ten years.

He feeds the birds daily with packs of Ramen Noodles he is able to buy with the change given to him by those who pass by.

Not knowing who his parents are, he simply says that he has no mother or father. Not knowing his age, he says that too many years have passed to count. Life, completely unknown and utterly alone.

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.” ― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World