Summary
Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Army veteran from Colorado Springs, has been identified as the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day.
Livelsberger died in the blast, which injured seven people with minor injuries.
Authorities are investigating the explosion as a potential act of terror, noting Livelsberger’s military connection to Shamsud Din Jabbar, the suspect in the deadly New Orleans attack hours earlier.
Firework mortars and fuel canisters were found in the truck, with no confirmed motive yet.
why do they need a suspect? cybertrucks just kinda do that
Up until this article I legitimately assumed that’s what was happening in the image. I don’t understand what message the suspect was trying to send, but the investigators seem confident it was intentional, I guess.
Don’t worry it’s a white bro. Definitely not terrorism. \s
Luigi is white. Didn’t stop prosecutors there. Or is Italian not white enough anymore, suddenly?
Don’t know how much you are joking, but Italians were not considered “white” until fairly recently. I had an instructor (who I thought was an old sexist racist pos) who started telling a story about going to a hunt camp where he was the only white guy. I perked up, like “wait, what? Have I misread this 80 year old German man? Am I just blind?”
Then as he carried on in the story. “Yeah they were all a bunch of drunk Italians, but some of them were ok!”
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Everyone knows Italians are criminals! Didn’t you watch the Sopranos??
It’s only terrorism if it’s done by brown people or directly affects rich people.
not white enough
anymoreagain
What do they mean links has anyone explained that or is anyone retired from the army a terrorist suspect now?
Edit reread it, same mitary base.
They were both at Fort Bragg, now re-branded as “Fort Liberty”.
Has anyone checked the water supply in our military bases?
Fort Bragg Mass shooter:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kreutzer_Jr.
Fort Hood Mass shooter #1:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting
Fort Hood Mass shooter #2:
I don’t think it’s the water supply, more likely that being part of an organisation that trains you to take lives devalues said lives for you. Also, military training is effectively inflicting trauma on you, and forcing you to adopt doing disciplined soldier stuff as a coping strategy. You know, the whole break down and build it back up thing.
Also they served in Afghanistan at the same time
There’s every chance they knew each other, the a good chance it wasn’t widely known that they knew each other
FBI want us to believe the two soldiers each individually decided to hire an electric truck and use it to try and kill people and do damage
Awfully coincidental
If the man inside was truly trying to cause physical damage, why not drive it through the doors and into the lobby before detonating? The image of a burning truck in front of a Trump hotel is perfect, but that kind of damage doesn’t do anything against specimens like Trump or Musk who don’t just seem to thrive IN SPITE OF bad press, but thrive BECAUSE of bad press. If they were connected, Bourbon Street guy definitely was the more effective “terrorist”.
I think he thought he had a fuel/air bomb. They just need a blast to atomise the fuel and then another to detonate the fuel and air mix, fireworks might have been enough for both, with the launch charge doing the first step and the star burst doing the second
A fuel air blast would have seriously damaged the building
