(3 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Las Vegas – 3 January 2025
1. Officials walking in
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Spencer Evans, Las Vegas FBI special agent in charge:
"During the FBI’s international investigation to date, as I mentioned, we have interviewed family members, friends, subjects, associates and military members that he served with around the globe. Through these interviews, we’ve found that the subject held no animosity towards the president elect. That’s something that’s also been reported. Investigative steps have discovered and information from the Army indicates that he likely suffered from PTSD. And we are also aware that there were potential other family issues or personal grievances in his own life that may have been contributing factors. Again, we’re looking into all of that. It’s evident that the subject considered, planned and thoughtfully prepared for this act alone. That’s what we believe, and we have no information to the contrary at this point. The FBI has been able to confirm some of this through the utilization of video footage in public areas as he traveled from Denver to Las Vegas. We have video footage that shows that he is alone outside of the vehicle. And that corroborates, again, what Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department footage has also shown. The FBI, as the sheriff indicated, facilitated obtaining DNA from a family member that was able to be conclusively matched to confirm the subject’s identity. As Sheriff Koren mentioned, although this incident is more public and more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who is struggling with PTSD and other issues."
3. Still displayed on a screen showing Matthew Livelsberger
4. Various stills displayed on a screen showing charred items including a wallet, identifications cards and a cellphone
5. Various of a video displayed on a screen showing Livelsberger at a Tesla charging station
6. Wide of Dori Koren speaking, a map showing Livelsberger’s route from Colorado to Nevada displayed on a screen
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dori Koren, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff:
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8. Wide of Dori Koren speaking, video of truck exploding displayed on a screen
STORYLINE:
A highly decorated Army soldier who died in an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck at the Trump hotel in Las Vegas left a note saying it was stunt to serve as “wakeup call” for the country’s ills, investigators said Friday.
Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, also wrote in the note that he needed to “cleanse my mind” of the lives lost of people he knew and “the burden of the lives I took.”
Livelsberger apparently harbored no ill will toward President-elect Donald Trump, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officials said.
“Although this incident is more public and more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who was struggling with PTSD and other issues,” FBI Special Agent In Charge Spencer Evans said at a news conference.
The explosion caused minor injuries to seven people but virtually no damage to the hotel.
“This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wakeup call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives,” Livelsberger wrote in a letter found by authorities who released only excerpts of it.
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