The day after a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, police said the suspect was found Wednesday inside the vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head. His motivations remain “unknown,” says the FBI.
New information on the suspect in the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas (Nevada) has emerged. He had a gunshot wound to the head and his motivations are “unknown”, local police and the FBI announced Thursday, January 2.
The body found Wednesday inside the vehicle has not yet been formally identified pending DNA analyses, Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a press conference.
“We discovered, thanks to the medical examiner’s office, that the individual had been shot in the head before the vehicle exploded,” explained the sheriff, suggesting suicide.
“The suspect’s motivations remain unknown at this stage. (…) We do not have information that allows us to state with certainty or suggest that it was motivated by a particular ideology,” said during the same press conference Spencer Evans, special agent of the FBI, federal police.
The FBI said Thursday that there was no “irrefutable link” between the two events.
With AFP
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