“We discovered, through the medical examiner’s office, that the individual had suffered a gunshot wound to the head before the vehicle exploded,” said Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill, suggesting suicide.
The body found Wednesday inside the vehicle has not yet been formally identified pending DNA analyses, said Kevin McMahill. But authorities believe it is Matthew Alan Livelsberger, a 37-year-old soldier. “The motivations remain unknown at this stage. […] We don’t have information that allows us to say with certainty or suggest that this was motivated by any particular ideology,” FBI agent Spencer Evans said at a news conference.
Another veteran
Matthew Alan Livelsberger is a member of the US Army Special Forces, who was on “approved leave at the time of his death,” a Pentagon spokesperson said in a statement. According to this spokesperson, Livelsberger joined in 2006 and served in the army until 2011, before joining the National Guard then the reserve army, and finally joining the special forces in 2012.
Images posted on social networks on Wednesday showed a gray Cybertruck electric vehicle, parked in front of the entrance to the hotel where the name “Trump” is displayed in large format, explode in a huge cloud of smoke. The explosion also injured seven people.
Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, is an ally of President-elect Donald Trump, who has charged him with an extra-governmental mission of deregulation and reduction of public spending in his future government.
The explosion came hours after a car-ramming attack in New Orleans, in which 14 people were killed and around 30 injured. The suspect in this attack is a former American soldier named Shamsud-Din Jabbar. He had proclaimed in several videos his support for the Islamic State (IS) group and had also claimed to have joined the jihadist organization, according to the FBI. The FBI said there was no “irrefutable link” between the two events.
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