The Cybertruck bombing that happened outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day appears to be the suicide of a veteran who was struggling with PTSD and other issues, the FBI said Friday.
Spencer Evans, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s office in Las Vegas, also said during a news conference Friday that there was no evidence that Wednesday’s bombing was connected with the deadly terror attack in New Orleans that happened earlier in the day.
“The only things that we have connecting them are incidental, what we believe to be coincidental, similarities,” Evans said. He said those similarities include the vehicles being rented through the same service, both perpetrators serving in the military and both staying at an Airbnb.
“We have identified no telephonic or email communication between the subjects, no information that suggests that they knew each other, that they ever served in the same unit, that they were ever assigned at the same place at the same time and had interaction,” Evans said.
Police identified Matthew Alan Livelsberger, a 37-year-old active duty member of the Army Special Forces, as the driver of the Cybertruck. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Thursday the county coroner had determined Livelsberger shot himself in the head before the bombing.
The FBI has not identified any connection between Livelsberger and a terrorist organization, Evans said.
While the bombing happened outside a Trump hotel, Livelsberger held no animosity toward President-elect Donald Trump, Evans said.
The Cybertruck had been rented in Denver by Livelsberger, the police department’s Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Thursday.
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