Police positively identify driver of exploded Tesla Cybertruck as US Army soldier

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Officials on Thursday (Jan 2) positively identified the person found dead inside the Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, which left the driver dead and seven people with minor injuries.  The Cybertruck driver was identified as Matthew Livelsberger, 37, an active-duty Army soldier from Colorado Springs, and police said he acted alone.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3sxbp6bz  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Law enforcement officials positively identified a U.S. Army soldier from Colorado as the person

00:08inside a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas

00:14on Wednesday, leaving the driver dead and seven people with minor injuries.

00:20Authorities also believe Matthew Livalsberger, a 37-year-old active-duty Army soldier from

00:26Colorado Springs, acted alone.

00:29There was also no definitive link between the New Year's Day New Orleans truck attack

00:33that killed 15 people and the Cybertruck explosion.

00:36Now, I would like to acknowledge a couple of things because I know what's going on in

00:42the social media world and there are a number of things in this case that are similar to

00:46the attack in New Orleans.

00:49We do know that our subject here served in the military.

00:53In fact, he's a current member of the military.

00:56Both of the subjects served at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

01:00What we do know about that is it's a very large military base and we have no record

01:04that they served in the same unit or even at the same years at Fort Bragg, something

01:09that continues to remain under investigation.

01:11Obviously, we're always concerned in these sorts of events to ascertain what the motive

01:17is.

01:18We understand that's everybody's at the forefront of everyone's thoughts.

01:21And so looking into exactly what the motivation is remains our number one priority.

01:26We have to focus on what we know and what we don't know.

01:27We know we have a bombing, absolutely, and it's a bombing that certainly has factors

01:31that raise concern.

01:32It's not lost on us that it's in front of the Trump building, that it's a Tesla vehicle,

01:39but we don't have information at this point that definitively tells us or suggests it

01:43was because of this particular ideology or any of the reasoning behind it.

01:47That's the purpose of the investigation that we're conducting, is to get to the bottom

01:50of exactly what happened, why, and how.

01:53Livalsberger was assigned to the Army Special Operations Command and was on approved leave

01:58at the time of his death.

02:00A U.S. official told Reuters that Livalsberger completed five combat deployments to Afghanistan.

02:07He had been awarded a Bronze Star for valor and an Army Commendation for valor, along

02:12with a Combat Infantryman badge.

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