Print The case is being investigated as a possible act of terrorism, though officials said there are still many questions about what happened and the motive for the violence. The driver was a U.S. Army veteran and served as a Green Beret master sergeant, who spent the majority of his time at Ft. Carson in Colorado and in Germany. A driver had rented a Tesla Cybertruck out of Colorado and appeared to arrive in Las Vegas around sunrise on New Year’s Day. Cameras showed the truck in Las Vegas at 7:30 a.m., authorities said. The driver traveled up and down the Strip for about an hour before pulling into the covered driveway outside the Trump International Hotel. Roughly 17 seconds later, a massive explosion ripped through the truck and created a ball of flames that stunned those inside the hotel and the surrounding area. Seven people were hurt. And when police made it inside the truck, they discovered a body burned beyond recognition. Authorities later determined Matthew Livelsberger, 37, had fatally shot himself, presumably just before the explosion. Advertisement The case is being investigated as a possible act of terrorism, though officials said there are still many questions about what happened and the motive for the violence. Authorities found camp fuel, gasoline canisters and firework mortars in the truck bed. The explosion didn’t significantly damage the Cybertruck and “vented out and up,” said Kenny Cooper, a special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It also didn’t shatter the glass doors of the Trump hotel lobby nearby; the cache of explosives inside the Cybertruck was meant to fuel a bigger blast. McMahill said in a Thursday news conference that a charred body was found inside the vehicle and police were able to determine the identity from the military identification, credit cards and passport found at the scene. The Associated Press reported Friday that investigators identified the Tesla driver — who was burned beyond recognition — as Livelsberger by a tattoo and by comparing DNA from relatives. Driver identified as a Green Beret Livelsberger was in the Army and served as a Green Beret master sergeant. He spent the majority of his time at Ft. Carson in Colorado and in Germany, according to authorities. He was on approved leave from Germany at the time of his death. Livelsberger worked as a special forces operation manager for the Army since 2006 before switching to a remote and autonomous systems manager two months ago, according to his LinkedIn profile. On his Facebook profile, Livelsberger once criticized the withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan in 2021. He called it the “biggest foreign-policy failure in the history of the United States.” Advertisement He entered the active-duty Army in December 2012 and was a candidate to be a Green Beret after serving in the Army Reserve and the National Guard. The agency said in a statement that it is in “full cooperation with federal and state law enforcement agencies, but as a matter of policy, will not comment on ongoing investigations.” The FBI, the ATF and the Colorado Springs Police Department served a search warrant Thursday morning at a home in Colorado Springs in connection with the explosion in Las Vegas. Federal authorities declined to provide additional details. Looking for links to New Orleans attack, but no direct ties so far