US authorities have confirmed that the person who was burned to death inside the Cybertruck of Tesla that in vegas He was a man, 37 years old and a native of Colorado Springs. The FBI has not found connections between this action and New Year’s Day itself, so it does not currently consider that the Las Vegas explosion was an act of “terrorism.”
According to investigators, DNA samples and medical records have identified the driver of the Cybertruck as Matthew Livelsbergeran active-duty United States Army soldier who acted alone and committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth inside the vehicle just before detonating the gasoline canisters and large fireworks mortars he was carrying in the back .
The police found of semi-automatic pistols in the Cybertruck, one of them at the feet of the deceased and both purchased legally on December 30. A military ID, a passport, an iPhone and credit cards were also found in the van. Livelsberger was assigned to the Army Special Operations Command and was on approved leave at the time of his death, an Army official explained.
A U.S. official told Reuters that Livelsberger, who participated in five combat missions in Afghanistanhad received a Bronze Star and another distinction from the Army for bravery, along with a Combat Infantry Badge. A close relative explained that Livelsberger had always wanted to be “an army soldier, in the Special Forceseven when he was a little boy. And when he did it, it was a soldier of soldiers“.
Politically, Livelsberger was a supporter of the president-elect Donald Trump throughout the political career of the Republican magnate, whom he considered someone who loved the military. “I thought Trump was the best thing in the world,” said the aforementioned relative of the deceased. Livelsberger went to high school in Bucyrusin the north of Ohiowhere he played football and baseball and seemed happy and popular. He graduated in 2005 and immediately after enlisted in the military.
According to this family member, the suspect had not shown any indication that he was planning a violent action, and that this episode does not fit with the person he knew as a child and as an adult.
