CenturyLink – by LUCAS L. JOHNSON II
LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — Investigators said Tuesday that a package sent to a rural Tennessee home exploded, killing a lawyer who lived there and injuring a woman.
Killed was 74-year-old Jon Setzer and 72-year-old Marion Setzer was in critical condition at Vanderbilt University Hospital on Tuesday, police said.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation officials declined to say what kind of package was sent to the Lebanon home.
“A package was delivered, as far as where or when, I can’t give that information,” TBI spokeswoman Illana Tate said.
Along with the TBI, agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, were investigating at the home on a rural cul-de-sac. Crews in white hazardous materials suits were walking around the property, and official vehicles filled the yard of the red brick two-story home with white dormers on Tuesday.
“We will be here night and day trying to come to the quickest resolution to this issue as we can,” Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn said.
Earlier, alcohol bureau spokesman Michael Knight said investigators had ruled out accidental causes like a gas leak or electrical malfunction. Later authorities confirmed it was a package. Police on Tuesday afternoon announced an $8,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction in the case.
Authorities declined to say if Jon and Marion Setzer were married but neighbors referred to them as a couple and said they were friendly and sometimes looked after other neighbors’ pets when they went out of town.
David Hughen arrived at his house about an hour after the blast on Monday, and noticed that the front and back windows of the Setzer home had been shattered.
“With the house as well-built as it was, it had to be a huge explosion,” Hughen, a contractor, said of the home built four years ago. “It’s just a huge mystery that a terrible thing has happened to good people.”
Another neighbor, Charles Thompson, said the blast in the small neighborhood has left him shaken.
“It didn’t appear that they were the kind of people this would happen to,” Thompson said. “It’s very scary.”
Rev. Mike Ripski, senior pastor at Lebanon First United Methodist Church where the couple attended, said they will be sorely missed.
“This horrific tragedy has left the members of the church and all who know them in disbelief and profound sorrow,” Ripski said. “Our prayers continue for their children and grandchildren.”
Officials — some with dogs — continued to search for evidence late into the evening Tuesday.
“Anything that was in that area will have to be methodically removed,” Knight said. “We have to decide is this something that was part of the residence, or is this something that was part of the item in question.”
In a release, TBI officials asked residents to contact police if they locate any suspicious packages.
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Associated Press staffer Dylan Lovan contributed to this report from Louisville, Ky.
Well now. I wonder who HE pissed off.
Exactly!! He way pissed someone off. I would like to know who, so if they mail me something, I don’t open it!
“We will be here night and day trying to come to the quickest resolution to this issue as we can,” Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn said.”
In other words, they haven’t picked their patsy yet.
Or they haven’t been informed who it’s to be.
Yet.
Ghost of the Unabomber?
Kinda reminds me of Valerie Jarrett’s infamous quote:
“After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.”
Mob hits all over with no one to stop them.
I would be all for non-stop assassinations if they kept it between themselves and left us out of it? They had better not leave out the senate. That truly would be priceless NC and I would contribute heavily to both parties!:D
Kinda reminds me of that scene from the movie, “Mars Attacks” (for lack of a better movie) where the character Grandma Florence Norris is watching the aliens on TV, who were in the Capitol Building shooting up the place:
She laughs and says,
“They blew up Congress! Ha ha ha ha!”
I remember everyone in the audience laughing hysterically. Good times.
He’s a Lawyer?
Theres no way they could ever tie this down to one person..Every person a Lawer comes in contact sooner or later would like to see him dead..lol
Don’t go pissing people off..its really that simple