(2 Jan 2025)
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Las Vegas — 2 January 2024
1. Shot of photo of man suspected of being inside vehicle, shown at news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheriff Kevin McMahill, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department:
"We also discovered through corner’s office that the individual had sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the vehicle. One of the handguns was found at his feet inside of the vehicle."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheriff Kevin McMahill, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department:
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"Obviously, in how we’re trying to identify him and I’m feeling comfortable to give you this information: is a tremendous amount of substantial evidence to include he rented the Turo vehicle. There are two tattoos, one of which was on the stomach and one of which is on the arm that we can see bits and pieces of it as in comparison to what it is that we now know he had on his body. That has given us a lot of confidence that this is, in fact the same person."
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4. Surveillance video show on screen at news conference of cybertruck movements, including video of explosion UPSOUND (English) Sheriff Kevin McMahill, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department:
"So through extensive surveillance video, we were able to track him leaving there. And we know that he went to several different places along Las Vegas Boulevard. And he spent some time in a parking lot of a business near Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard. But we didn’t have video of the truck pulling back on to Las Vegas Boulevard from the Sands. See that there, goes, that’s north on the boulevard from Sands at 8:39, where he then immediately heads to the Trump Hotel. Pulls into the valet area. And as of course, you all know, the explosion occurs within 17 seconds of his arrival at the valet."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Spencer Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas division:
"It’s not lost on us that it’s in front of, you know, of the Trump building, that it’s a Tesla vehicle. But we don’t have information at this point that definitively tells us or suggests it was because of this particular ideology or that, you know, any of the reasoning behind it. That’s the purpose of the investigation that we’re conducting is to get to the bottom of exactly what happened, why and how."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheriff Kevin McMahill, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department:
"Other than the windows being gone, that that’s a bit more disassembled than it was at the scene and the back area being blown off, there’s no evidence of physical damage to the sides of that vehicle. And so the explosion that was then, that vehicle sort of vented out and up, but it didn’t even damage the glass doors at the Trump. So I’m not sure what that means."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenny Cooper, a special agent in charge for the the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives:
"The level of sophistication is not what we would expect from, from an individual with this type of military experience. That most of that the materials inside that Tesla were fuel to an exploit to to help fuel a greater explosion. But it’s too early to answer any question is is is if there was sophisticated connectivity to those components to to make it ignite in the way that it did."
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8. Images shown at news conference including damaged vehicle, driver’s license photo, passport
UPSOUND (English) Sheriff Kevin McMahill, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department:
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