{"id":87,"date":"2008-10-18T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/suspect-dead-4-hurt-in-ga-law-office-explosion.html"},"modified":"2008-10-18T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T10:04:00","slug":"suspect-dead-4-hurt-in-ga-law-office-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/suspect-dead-4-hurt-in-ga-law-office-explosion.html","title":{"rendered":"Suspect dead, 4 hurt in Ga. law office explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 10\/17\/2008 11:05 PM<br \/><br \/>By KATE BRUMBACK and GREG BLUESTEIN<br \/>Associated Press Writer<br \/><br \/>DALTON, Ga. (AP) _ A bitter family dispute over property in north Georgia apparently erupted Friday when a 78-year-old man threw an explosive into a law firm that represented his son, causing a blast that killed the father and injured four people in the office.<br \/><br \/>The explosion blew out windows of the two-story, colonial-style house where attorneys worked, and some in the small blue-collar town of 30,000 felt vibrations from more than a block away.<br \/><br \/>Authorities identified the bomber as Lloyd Cantrell, a man known around town for wearing bib overalls and carrying a small Chihuahua. Over the years, Cantrell amassed several parcels of land in the area, and gave some of the property to his son.<br \/><br \/>His son had grown fearful of his father, though, and filed a lawsuit seeking to keep his dad off the property the son had been given, claiming the elder man stole tools, kicked down a door and was suicidal.<br \/><br \/>Authorities said it was too early to talk about a motive in the case, but the dispute between the father and son was well-documented in court records.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;Essentially, what we&#8217;ve got here is not an act of terrorism,&#8221; said Scott Sweetow, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. &#8220;It is a depraved individual, by all accounts, who decided to launch what ended up being a suicide attack.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Police were called Friday morning to a disturbance at the firm of McCamy, Phillips, Tuggle &#038; Fordham in Dalton, 26 miles southeast of Chattanooga, Tenn. An officer saw a man get out of a sport utility vehicle and run behind the building. The explosion followed.<br \/><br \/>Authorities think Cantrell threw the explosive through a front window or door. As of late Friday, they hadn&#8217;t identified the nature of the explosive.<br \/><br \/>Inside the SUV, authorities found cylinders of natural gas, propane gas and gasoline, which they carefully removed before towing the vehicle late Friday.<br \/><br \/>Two of the injured were treated at a hospital and released, and one was admitted. A fourth, attorney Jim Phillips, was taken to a burn center in Augusta. Hospital spokeswoman Anne Cordeiro said he was in critical condition.<br \/><br \/>A block and a half from the blast site, bank executive Wayne Russell said he heard and felt the explosion.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;It sounded like a transformer that&#8217;s blown,&#8221; said Russell, 53, executive vice president of Omni National Bank. &#8220;We could actually feel a sort of rocking motion from the explosion.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>The firm housed the office for Samuel L. Sanders, who represented Lloyd Cantrell&#8217;s son in a bitter legal dispute that dated back at least two years. A police spokesman said he didn&#8217;t know whether Sanders was in the office at the time of the explosion.<br \/><br \/>Lloyd Cantrell&#8217;s attorney, David Blackburn, said Cantrell&#8217;s son, Bruce, filed a lawsuit seeking to block his father from the land, in part claiming that his dad carried a pistol with him and threatened to kill himself.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;He has repeatedly said that &#8216;The only thing that would keep me off the property is to be put in jail,'&#8221; according to a complaint filed by Bruce Cantrell&#8217;s attorney in 2006. Several attempts to reach Bruce Cantrell Friday were unsuccessful.<br \/><br \/>The case was set to go trial in August, but it was delayed.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;I know he got frustrated because it took so long,&#8221; Blackburn said of his client. He described the family as &#8220;abysmally dysfunctional.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>&#8220;He was a pretty nice old man,&#8221; Blackburn said of the father. &#8220;He was a little cantankerous at times, and I think he was really frustrated.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Four miles from the explosion, investigators streamed in and out of the suspect&#8217;s house, which sits on a large wooded lot with a rusting tractor in front. The white house resembles a large garage with a small living area and a corrugated tin roof. A riding lawn mower and an old recreational vehicle were in the back.<br \/><br \/>Attorney Robert Smalley, a lawyer at the firm, left 15 to 20 minutes before the blast but turned back when he received phone calls about it.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;We&#8217;ll take today with our families and try to regroup,&#8221; he said &#8220;Our thoughts right now are with the injured and their families.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Police cordoned off the block and shut down a post office near the law firm, which specializes in personal injury and wrongful death cases, according to its Web site.<br \/><br \/>Students at an elementary school across the street were evacuated to a nearby church.<br \/><br \/>___<br \/><br \/>Bluestein reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writers Walter Putnam and Dorie Turner in Atlanta also contributed to this report.<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 10\/17\/2008 11:05 PMBy KATE BRUMBACK and GREG BLUESTEINAssociated Press WriterDALTON, Ga. 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