Sheriff: Las Vegas Cybertruck Bomber Had A Gunshot Wound To The Head, Incident Was Likely A Suicide

Posted • January 3, 2025: The suspect who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas has been identified as 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger of Colorado Springs. According to the US Army, Mr. Livelsberger was on leave from his assignment in Germany. Army spox tells Fox the suspect in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion was an active-duty Special Forces operations sergeant who was on leave from Germany where he was serving with the 10th Special Forces Group: "Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger enlisted as an 18X and served in the active duty Army from January 2006 to March 2011. Livelsberger then joined the National Guard from March 2011 to July 2012, followed by the Army Reserve from July 2012 to December 2012. He entered the active duty Army in December 2012 and was a U.S. Army Special Operations Soldier.

Additionally, U.S. Army Special Operations Command can confirm Livelsberger was assigned to the command and on approved leave at the time of his death. USASOC is in full cooperation with federal and state law enforcement agencies, but as a matter of policy, will not comment on ongoing investigations.” He was an active member of the special forces, specifically the Green Berets. He rigged this vehicle to explode using firework-mortars and gasoline cans. Only Livelsberger was killed, though several others were injured. Police now say that he shot himself before the vehicle exploded: Las Vegas sheriff: Special Forces Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger shot himself before his rented Cybertruck blew up at the Trump hotel. Sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says victim in Cybertruck explosion suffered gunshot to the head before blast; "The individual had sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the vehicle."

Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill added that this incident was likely a suicide: The sheriff said at a news conference Thursday that the investigation indicates that the driver sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head before the vehicle exploded. He said one of the guns found in the vehicle was at the driver’s feet. He added that investigators do not have complete confirmation of the driver’s identity because the individual’s body was burned beyond recognition. However, he said there was mounting evidence that the driver was 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger of Colorado Springs. Livelsberger was on leave from his Special Forces unit in Germany at the time of his death, Army officials said. The soldier first enlisted in 2006. He added that investigators do not have complete confirmation of the driver’s identity because the individual’s body was burned beyond recognition. However, he said there was mounting evidence that the driver was 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger of Colorado Springs.

Livelsberger was on leave from his Special Forces unit in Germany at the time of his death, Army officials said. The soldier first enlisted in 2006. “This activity is related to the explosion in Las Vegas,” the FBI said in a statement. At the same time, authorities continued to probe what they believe to have been a separate deadly attack in New Orleans that left 15 New Year’s revelers dead and injured dozens of others just hours before. -- Wait, didn’t the FBI just say there’s no “definitive link today?” (…)

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