Las Vegas Cybertruck driver ID’d; Colorado Springs residence investigated in connection with explosion
Jan 02, 2025
Federal agents and local police were investigating a Colorado Springs residence Thursday morning connected to the explosion of a Cybertruck in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, authorities said.
The man killed in Wednesday’s Cybertruck explosion was an active-duty U.S. Army soldier, federal officials told the Associated Press.
Early Wednesday morning, a Tesla electric Cybertruck rented in Colorado and filled with firework mortars and camp fuel canisters exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel. The explosion killed the driver and injured seven other people.
Federal officials identified the driver Thursday as 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger. The officials spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose details of his service.
Livelsberger was an active-duty Army member who spent time at a North Carolina base formerly known as Fort Bragg, home to Army special forces command.
Denver FBI agents, the Colorado Springs Police Department and Denver field agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were investigating a Colorado Springs residence Thursday connected to the Cybertruck explosion, federal officials said.
Colorado Springs police and FBI officials did not confirm whether Livelsberger lived in the home under investigation. He has had multiple Colorado Springs addresses registered to him since 2019.
The neighborhood in which the FBI searched Thursday is filed with uniform, boxy multi-family homes tucked near Colorado Spring’s northeast border.
Livelsberger has no criminal history in Colorado, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. He pursued and was granted a divorce in El Paso County in 2018, court records show. The divorce petition sought a dissolution of marriage without children, according to the records.
Las Vegas police officials on Wednesday said authorities know who rented the truck with the Turo app in Colorado, but are not releasing the name until investigators determine if it is the same person who died.
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The explosion in Las Vegas came hours after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar rammed a truck into a crowd in New Orleans’ famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, killing at least 15 people before being shot to death by police. The FBI on Thursday said it now believes Jabbar acted alone.
Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran, also spent time at Fort Bragg but one official said so far there is no overlap in their assignments there.
The investigation so far has not shown the two incidents are related, and authorities don’t think the men knew each other, two law enforcement officials told the AP. The officials were not authorized to discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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