“We do not have information that allows us to say with certainty or suggest that this was motivated by a particular ideology”
Wounded “before the explosion”
“We discovered, through the medical examiner’s office, that the individual had suffered a gunshot wound to the head before the vehicle exploded,” said Kevin McMahill, suggesting suicide, but specifying that the body had yet to be identified formally. But authorities believe it is Matthew Alan Livelsberger, a 37-year-old soldier.
In the army from 2006 to 2011
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.
Motivations still “unknown”
Furthermore, the FBI indicated that the motivations are not yet known. “The motivations remain unknown at this stage. (…) We do not have information that allows us to say with certainty or suggest that it was motivated by a particular ideology,” said Spencer Evans, special agent of the FBI, during a press conference.
“No irrefutable link” with New Orleans
Images posted on social networks showed on Wednesday a gray Cybertruck electric vehicle, parked in front of the entrance to the hotel where the name “Trump” is displayed in large format, exploding in a huge cloud of smoke. The explosion also injured seven people. Sheriff McMahill said Wednesday that the rear of the Tesla vehicle contained cans of gasoline and “large fireworks mortars.” He estimated that the structure of the Cybertruck had “helped limit the damage”.
Note that, in the investigation following the fatal car-ramming attack in New Orleans, which occurred the same day, the federal police specified: “At this stage, there is no irrefutable link between the attack on New Orleans and that on Las Vegas.
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.
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