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.
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