The suspect found dead in the Tesla Cybertruck which exploded on Wednesday January 1 in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas committed suicidethe American authorities said on Thursday, January 2, specifying that the motivations for this act remained, for the moment, “unknown”.
“We discovered, thanks to the medical examiner's office, that the individual had been shot in the head before the vehicle exploded“Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a press conference.
“Matthew Livelsberger, 37, of Colora Springs, Colorado, was identified as the driver of the vehicle in the investigation into the explosion,” police in the southern city later said. western United States, on his X account.
Citing the medical examiner's office, she specifies that he committed suicide. “His burned body is unrecognizable,” explained Kevin McMahill, affirming at that time that he could not confirm “100%” that this soldier was the individual found inside the Cybertruck, pending analyzes DNA.
Unknown motives
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 left seven people lightly injured.
“The suspect's motives remain unknown at this stage.. (…) We do not have information that allows us to say with certainty or to suggest that this was motivated by a particular ideology,” declared, during the same press conference, Spencer Evans, special agent of the FBI.
The authorities found identity papers in the name of this soldier on site.
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