(2 Jan 2025)
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Las Vegas, Nevada – 1 January 2025
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1. Various of forensic investigators at scene
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Forensic investigators were outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel late Wednesday, where firework mortars and camp fuel canisters were found stuffed into the back of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and Clark County Fire Department officials said that a person died inside the futuristic-looking pickup truck and seven people nearby suffered minor injuries.
The incident has sparked an intense investigation into possible terrorism.
Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill 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.
McMahill said video captured at Telsa charging stations provided by CEO Elon Musk helped authorities track the vehicle’s journey, arriving in Las Vegas about 7:30 am. then driving about an hour later into the valet area of the Trump International Hotel, where it sat 15 to 20 seconds before the explosion occurred.
Musk said Wednesday afternoon on X that “we have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself. All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion.”
Musk has recently become a member of Trump’s inner circle and attended a New Year’s Eve party at the Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida that was not attended by the president elect.
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