The soldier who died in Cybertruck explosion wanted to make a wakeup call
A New Las Vegas Area Veteran in the ‘Burst of a Bat” on New Year’s Eve in Louisiana’s Bourbon Street
The driver of the car that was burned beyond recognition was identified by investigators by using his family’s DNA and a tattoo. The cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, according to coroners officials.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Kevin Mc Mahill believes Livelsberger may have self inflicted the gunshot wound to the head.
Officials found several items in the vehicle including multiple firearms, fireworks, a military ID, an iPhone and several credit cards. The FBI and local law enforcement officials are still looking for a motive.
The FBI said that there is no other potential threat to the area around the Bourbon Street area, because the driver of the truck that rammed into the crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day acted alone.
Livelsberger was in the active-duty Army from January 2006 to March 2011. From July 2012 to December 2012 he was a member of the Army Reserve.
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On Wednesday, Las Vegas police said that crews pulled gasoline canisters, camp fuel canisters and large firework mortars from the back of the Cybertruck. Seven people were injured in the explosion.
Jeremy Schwartz, acting special agent in charge of the FBI in Las Vegas, said that the agency was working closely with area law enforcement to learn more about the explosion. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force was working to determine whether the explosion was an act of terrorism.
“We do not believe that anyone else is involved in this attack at this time,” Christopher Raia, FBI deputy assistant director, told reporters during a press conference.
Raia said investigators are looking at five electronic devices, three cellphones and two laptops and they have nothing to indicate that he was aided in this attack by anyone.
This is a change in the FBI’s initial assessment on Wednesday that it was likely Jabbar did not act alone and the agency was searching for information that could lead to additional suspects who may have aided in the attack.
An act of terrorism is being investigated after a man dressed as an Army veteran killed a Houston cop in a gunfight. Raia claimed that a black flag with ties to the terrorist group was attached to the back of the pickup truck.
Bourbon Street, which has been closed as authorities investigate, has been cleaned overnight and was reopened to pedestrians on Thursday. There are 14 yellow roses on the sidewalk near Canal Street as a makeshift memorial for those killed in the speeding rampage.
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“With law enforcement assets that would typically be allocated to an event of this stature currently engaged in active investigations related to the incident, the postponement will allow for additional security resources to be put in place in order to maintain the typical standards of a major event in the Caesars Superdome,” the Sugar Bowl said in a statement Wednesday night.
When asked about security measures in the city ahead of the game, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry told reporters that officials “reinforced the area” and “deployed some additional types of assets.”
“I don’t like to give specifics because I don’t like to tell the enemy what we got,” he said. “But I can tell you we’re in better shape than we were before,” Landry said. The amount of law enforcement resources that are being utilized to finish the investigation is unprecedented.
Raia said there is currently no definitive connection between the New Orleans attack and the detonation of a Cybertruck in Las Vegas on Wednesday, as the suspect was killed inside the vehicle.
According to the FBI, a U.S. citizen was discharged from the Army. From March to July 2020, he was an IT specialist in the Army reserve, as well as being a human resource specialist and an information technology specialist. In February 2009, Jabbar deployed to Afghanistan where he served for about 11 months. He left the service to become a staff sergeant.
The FBI said in a statement on social media there is no threat to the residents of the area after completing their search of the home of someone named Jabar in Houston. A neighbor of the suspect, who did not know him by name, described their interactions to TheTexas Newsroom as normal.
It has been reported that both men were stationed at the same military base in Afghanistan and served in different areas. However, the sheriff said that while they’re not prepared to “rule in or rule out anything at this point,” there’s no evidence at this time of a connection between them or a link between the incidents.
Turo said on Friday, “We do not believe these two individuals would have been flagged by anyone – including law enforcement.” While we wait for law enforcement to finish their investigation, we will be consulting with national security and counterterrorism experts to learn more about how we can get even better and help prevent something like this from happening again.
The sheriff said that they had received information on the charging stops from Musk, but that they were also looking to see who else had been charging at the same time.
The sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan police department said he was comfortable calling the suicide bombing a suicide. “I’m not giving it any other labels.” McMahill also noted that police haven’t investigated the suspect’s phones or laptops yet, or identified a possible motive.
A highly decorated Army soldier who died in an explosion of a car at a Las Vegas hotel left a note saying that it was a stunt to wake up the country, investigators said Friday.
In the note, Matthew Livelsberger said that he wanted to clean his mind of the lives lost of people he knew and the burden of their deaths.
“Although this incident is more public and more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who was struggling with PTSD and other issues,” FBI Special Agent In Charge Spencer Evans said at a news conference.
“This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wakeup call. Americans only pay attention to violence and spectacle. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives,” Livelsberger wrote in a letter found by authorities who released only excerpts of it.
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Cindy Helwig, who lives diagonally across a narrow street separating the homes, said she last saw the man she knew as Matthew about two weeks ago when he asked her if he could borrow a tool he needed to fix an SUV he was working on.
Authorities searched a townhouse in Livelsberger’s hometown Thursday as part of the investigation. Neighbors said the man who lived there had a wife and a baby.
He received a medal with a device for courage under fire, as well as three other medals, all of which were Bronze Stars.
The Pentagon has turned Livelsberger’s medical records over to police, but they have declined to say if Livelsberger was suffering from mental health issues.
There were new details on Livelsberger’s motives, including whether or not he wanted to make a point about the president-elect’s name.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has recently become a member of President-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle. Both Trump and Musk were out of town on the day of the explosion. Both attended Trump’s New Year’s Eve party.
Musk spent an estimated $250 million during the presidential campaign to support Trump, who has named Musk, the world’s richest man, to co-lead a new effort to find ways to cut the government’s size and spending.
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Investigators suspect Livelsberger may have been planning a more damaging attack but the steel-sided vehicle absorbed much of the force from the crudely built explosive.
“It’s not lost on us that it’s in front of the Trump building, that it’s a Tesla vehicle, but we don’t have information at this point that definitively tells us or suggests it was because of this particular ideology,” Spencer Evans, the Las Vegas FBI’s special agent in charge, said Thursday at a news conference.
A law enforcement official said investigators learned through interviews that he may have gotten into a fight with his wife about relationship issues shortly before he rented the Tesla on Saturday and bought the guns. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
