The Livelsberger Shooting in the Cybertuck: A Soldier Loved the Army and the Trump Era on New Year’s Day
Investigators said previously that Livelsberger shot himself in the head inside the Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks just before it exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill says Livelsberger sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the Cybertuck detonating; investigators believe it was self inflicted.
There were several items in the vehicle, among which was multiple firearms, fireworks, a military ID, an iPad, and credit cards. FBI and local law enforcement officials are still looking for a reason.
According to a report in the Denver Gazette, Livelsberger sent texts after renting the truck that boasted of it’s “ungodly” speed. The New York Post said he left his home in Colorado the day after Christmas after an argument with his wife. The Independent got in contact with Livelsberger’s uncle who told them he was someone who loved the Army and Trump.
The Green Berets were highly trained special forces who worked to counter terrorism abroad and train partners. He had been in the Army since 2006 and was previously deployed to Afghanistan twice, the Army said. He was on approved leave when he died after returning from an overseas assignment in Germany.
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On Wednesday, the Las Vegas police said that canisters of gasoline, camp fuel, and large firework mortars were found in the back of the Cybertruck. The explosion, which was caught on video, injured seven people.
According to Jeremy Schwartz, acting special agents in charge of the FBI in Las Vegas, the agency is working closely with law enforcement to learn about the explosion. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force was working to determine whether the explosion was an act of terrorism.
At this point, the FBI does not think that anyone else is involved in the attack, Christopher Raia said during the press conference.
Raia said investigators are combing through five electronic devices — three cellphones and two laptops — and there is “nothing to indicate through call records, through anything on those devices, through interviews, through anything in our systems that he was aided in this attack by anyone.”
The FBI is looking for more information about the attack, after it was determined that it may have been aided by additional suspects.
Raia stated that the driver rented a white F-150 in Houston and headed to New Orleans on Tuesday. While he was planning to hurt his family and friends he was concerned that the news headlines would not concentrate on the war between the disbelievers and the believers, according to Raia. Jabbar also said he joined ISIS before the summer of 2024.
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Bourbon Street, which has been closed as authorities investigate, has been cleaned overnight and was reopened to pedestrians on Thursday. Fourteen yellow roses have been placed on the sidewalk near Canal Street as a makeshift memorial for each of those killed in the speeding rampage.
The Sugar Bowl, a nationally televised game that is part of the college football playoffs, was slated to take place in New Orleans on Wednesday night but was postponed until Thursday afternoon.
When asked about security measures in the city ahead of the game, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry told reporters that officials “reinforced the area” and “deployed some additional types of assets.”
“I don’t like to give specifics because I don’t like to tell the enemy what we got,” he said. “But I can tell you that we’re not as bad a shape as we were before,” he said. He said there is “an unprecedented amount of law enforcement resources that are being utilized.”
Raia said said there is currently “no definitive link” between the attack in New Orleans and a Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas in front of the Trump Hotel on Wednesday, in which the suspect was killed inside the vehicle.
Jabbar, 59, a Suicide with a Bombing in Las Vegas, and two other men left by a Chevy Impenetrable Explosion
The FBI reported that the Army discharged Jabbar, who was a US citizen. He also served as a Human Resource Specialist and Information Technology Specialist from March 2007 until January 2015 and then in the Army Reserve as an IT Specialist until July 2020, an Army spokesperson confirmed to NPR. In February of 2009, he went to Afghanistan for about 11 months. He left the service with the rank of staff sergeant.
The FBI says there is “no threat to residents” in the area after concluding its search of the Houston home of the suspect in the case. The Texas Newsroom reported that a neighbor, who didn’t know Jabbar by name, described the suspect as quiet and their interactions as normal.
It was reported that both men served in different parts of Afghanistan in the same year. While there is no evidence of a connection between the incidents, the sheriff said that they are not prepared to rule out anything at this point.
Turo said on Friday, “We do not believe these two individuals would have been flagged by anyone – including law enforcement.” While we wait for the law enforcement to wrap up their investigation, we are consulting with national security and counterterrorism experts to learn more about how we can get even better and do our part to prevent this from happening again.
The map of the eight stops that the truck made at the charging stations over the three days were shown by law enforcement officials during the briefings. They also claimed that someone from the electric car maker was going to assist in the investigation, including possibly recovering video from the truck’s cameras.
“I’m comfortable calling it a suicide with a bombing that occurred immediately thereafter,” said Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. I don’t give it any other labels. Mcmahill noted that the police have yet to investigate the suspect’s laptops or phones, or identify a possible motive.
A highly decorated Army soldier who died in an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck at the Trump hotel in Las Vegas left a note saying it was stunt to serve as “wakeup call” for the country’s ills, investigators said Friday.
Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, also wrote in the note that he needed to “cleanse my mind” of the lives lost of people he knew and “the burden of the lives I took.”
The FBI’s Special Agent In Charge said at a news conference that it was a tragic case of suicide involving a combat veteran who was struggling with post traumatic stress disorder.
“This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wakeup call. Americans only pay attention to violence and spectacle. “What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives?” wrote Livelsberger in a letter found by authorities who released only excerpts of it.
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Cindy said Matthew asked if she could borrow a tool from him when he was fixing an SUV, and that she hadn’t seen him in two weeks.
The town of Livelsberger searched a home as part of the investigation. The man lived there with a wife and baby, according to his neighbors.
He received five Bronze Stars, one with a device for courage under fire, a combat Infantry Badge, and an Army Commendation medal for bravery.
Pentagon officials have declined to say whether Livelsberger may have been suffering from mental health issues but say they have turned over his medical records to police.
The new details came as investigators sought to determine Livelsberger’s motive, including whether he sought to make a political point with the Tesla and the hotel bearing the president-elect’s name.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has recently become a member of President-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle. Neither Trump nor Musk was in Las Vegas early Wednesday, the day of the explosion. Trump hosted a New Years Eve party at his South Florida estate.
Musk spent at least $250 million to support Trump during the presidential campaign in order to find ways to cut the government’s size and spending.
The Investigative Investigation of the Pulsar-Vehicular Livelsberger Associated with a Black Hole Explosion
The steel-sided vehicle absorbed much of the force from the bomb and investigators think Livelsberger may have been planning a more damaging attack.
“We don’t know if it was a result of this particular ideology, or if it was a coincidence but it’s not lost on us that it is in front of the Trump building,” said Spencer Evans, with the Las Vegas FBI.
An investigator with the law enforcement agency said that investigators learned that the man may have got into a fight with his wife after he rented a car and bought guns. They were not authorized to talk about the ongoing investigation, so the official spoke on the condition of anonymity.