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The suspect found dead in the Tesla Cybertruck which exploded on Wednesday in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas committed suicide, American authorities said on Thursday, specifying that the motivations for this act remained, for the moment, “unknown”.
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“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, has been identified as the driver of the vehicle in the explosion investigation”said a little later, the police of this city in the southwest of the United States, on his X account (formerly Twitter). Citing the office of « Coroner » (forensic doctor), 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, awaiting DNA analysis.
Images posted on social networks showed a gray Cybertruck electric vehicle on Wednesday parked in front of the entrance to the hotel where the name « Trump » appears large, 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 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.
Enlisted in the US Army between 2006 and 2011
Matthew Alan Livelsberger is a member of the United States Army Special Forces, who was in “permission approved 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.
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Images posted on social networks showed a gray Cybertruck electric vehicle exploding in a huge cloud of smoke on Wednesday. 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.
No “irrefutable link” between the two cases
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 this Thursday that there was no “irrefutable link” between the two events.
Sheriff McMahill said Wednesday that the back of the Tesla vehicle contained cans of gasoline and “large fireworks mortars”. He estimated that the structure of the Cybertruck had “permit to limit the damage”.
By Le Nouvel Obs with AFP
