Investigators identified the driver of the vehicle, who was burned beyond recognition, as Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret. A highly decorated army soldier was inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, authorities said on Thursday. The explosion caused minor injuries to seven people but the hotel remained largely undamaged. Police believe Livelsberger intended a more damaging attack but the steel-sided vehicle absorbed much of the force from the crudely built explosive.
A US coroner confirmed Livelsberger's death was a suicide by gunshot. Authorities are still working to determine a motive. A law enforcement official said investigators learned through interviews that he may have gotten into a fight with his wife about relationship issues shortly before he rented the Tesla and bought the guns. It's not lost on us that it's in front 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.
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