BREAKING: Suspect in Las Vegas Cybertruck Explosion Had G*nshot Wound to the Head PRIOR To Explosion!

This story continues to get stranger and stranger!

Earlier today I joked “Imagine being so dumb that you blow yourself up….in a car that has the ability to drive itself.”

Imagine being so dumb that you blow yourself up….in a car that has the ability to drive itself. pic.twitter.com/9wkSl5qUxs

— Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) January 2, 2025

It was half a joke, half a valid observation.

Let’s say you really do decide you’re going to blow up a Tesla outside of President Trump’s Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, and you can either drive the car up to the door yourself and die in the explosion or you can just control the car with the app using Full Self Driving / Actually Smart Summon.

Yes, I realize the car was rented on Turo and as a rental likely would not have FSD, or would not have FSD available to the person renting it.  But there are other ways to get it.

But now comes an even stranger twist to the story….

Not only did the driver, reported to be Matthew Alan Livelsberger, die in the explosion, but he may have died slightly before via a gunshot wound to the head!

Talk about having a bad day.

Gunshot wound to the head and then get blown to bits?

Terrible way to go.

But that’s what we’re being told by Las Vegas officials:

JUST IN: The man who blew up a Cybertruck in front of Trump Tower had a gunshot wound to the head before the explosives detonated.

Las Vegas officials say Matthew Livelsberger shot himself before the bomb detonated.

"The individual had sustained a gunshot wound to the head… pic.twitter.com/akY8MWZNBw

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 2, 2025

So now we have this running list of oddities (and it’s only growing):

CyberTruck bomber:

-Found with gunshot wound to his head
-Fort Bragg, like the New Orleans driver
-Rented from Turo, like in New Orleans
-Same day as the New Orleans attack
-Green Beret military bomb expert
-Yet he used amateur explosives

Did someone put his corpse in the car?…

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 2, 2025

CyberTruck bomber:

-Found with gunshot wound to his head
-Fort Bragg, like the New Orleans driver
-Rented from Turo, like in New Orleans
-Same day as the New Orleans attack
-Green Beret military bomb expert
-Yet he used amateur explosives

Did someone put his corpse in the car? Remember, the car is fully self-driving.

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Tesla has already done a full forensic audit on the car and the software and I assume they would have told us if FSD was operational, so for that reason plus it being a rental, I assume it was not active.

More from the police presser here:

Sheriff Kevin McMahill: “We also discovered through the coroner’s office that the individual sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the vehicle. One of the handguns was found at his feet inside the vehicle.” pic.twitter.com/kPqtadj44j

— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) January 2, 2025

ABC News confirms:

The suspected driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded Wednesday outside the Trump International Las Vegas Hotel sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head prior to the blast, officials confirmed in a press briefing Thursday.

Active duty Army soldier Matthew Livelsberger, 37, was also identified as the individual believed to have died in the the explosion. No one else suffered serious injuries.

Officials are still waiting for DNA testing to come back to definitively confirm the person who died in the vehicle was Livelsberger, but overwhelming evidence — including credit cards in his name, similar tattoos, Livelsberger purchasing the weapons in the truck and an ID card — points to him as the individual. The fire and explosion made the identification process difficult because of the physical injuries sustained by the driver, officials said.

Livelsberger shot himself in the head prior to the explosion and a gun was found at his feet, according to Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

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Two guns — one handgun and one rifle, which were found in the vehicle “burnt beyond recognition” — had been purchased legally on Monday.

Livelsberger served as a Green Beret in the Army and was on approved leave from serving in Germany at the time of his death, a U.S. Army spokesperson said Thursday.

The incident is not believed to have any direct connection to the New Year’s Day truck attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people — as well as the suspect — and injured 35 others, according to the FBI.

“At this point, there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas,” the FBI’s Christopher Raia said Thursday morning at a press conference on the New Orleans attack.

The two drivers may have overlapped at Fort Liberty or in Afghanistan, though no evidence suggests the two ever were assigned together or knew each other, McMahill said.

Livelsberger was a supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, an official briefed on the probe told ABC News. His wife, who investigators spoke to in Colorado Springs, said he had been out of the house since around Christmas after a dispute over allegations of infidelity, the official said.

His wife told officials she did not believe Livelsberger would want to hurt anyone, the official told ABC News.

Livelsberger is believed to have told the person he rented the truck from that he was going camping at the Grand Canyon, the official told ABC News.

I question the portion about him being a Trump supporter.

From everything I had seen, I have seen good evidence to the contrary.

I also find it quite stunning they were able to determine he had a gunshot wound to the head after that explosion.

From all the videos I have seen, the driver of that truck sure looks to me like he was blown to bits.

I wonder how they were able to sufficiently confirm that detail….