A man appeared to have taken his own life by detonating a Cybertruck outside a Trump Hotel, sparking suspicions of a possible link to a recent terrorist incident in New Orleans. The involvement of an Elon Musk-designed vehicle and a property owned by Donald Trump added political undertones to the incident.
Law enforcement later stated they found no definitive connection between the two events, leaving many questions unanswered about the Las Vegas incident. Did the man truly commit suicide? Why was the bomb poorly constructed despite the perpetrator’s special forces background? What led a seemingly content individual to such a drastic act? Could there have been an emotional trigger?
Answers to these questions may have emerged with reports from the New York Post revealing that Matthew Livelsberger’s wife had left him due to allegations of infidelity the day after Christmas. This led him to embark on a cross-country journey in a rented Cybertruck bound for Las Vegas.
Matthew Livelsberger, 37, left his Colorado Springs home the day after Christmas following an argument with his wife over apparent infidelity, two sources familiar with the investigation told The Post.
His wife — who had a baby daughter with Livelsberger — reportedly told him that she knew he had been cheating, the sources said.
That puts a bit of a different spin on his family life. Before this report, all we had were smiling pictures of him and his wife, with the reasonable assumption being they were still together. But if she left him over infidelity, that would go a long way in providing a reason for him to be suicidal.
It would also explain why someone with Livelsberger’s expertise on weapons and explosives would stuff some fireworks and gas canisters in the back of a steel-bodied truck and call it a day. If you assume he was trying to kill other people, that seems like a pretty big mistake. If you make the counter-assumption that he wasn’t trying to kill other people, though, then it all starts to make a lot more sense. Authorities are even looking into the idea that he chose a Cybertruck specifically because it would limit any collateral damage.
Further, Livelsberger’s uncle claims that despite his wife’s reported anti-Trump feelings, Livelsberger himself was very supportive of the incoming president.
“He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American,” the uncle insisted.
For many, suspicions will remain that there’s something more to this story. Still, this latest reported fact pattern does make some sense.
A U.S. Army soldier with multiple combat tours currently deployed in Germany, already a probable point of mental stress, comes home on leave only to have his wife leave him. That pushes him over the edge, but he decides to commit suicide in a way that will grab a lot of attention. He creates a “bomb” that isn’t really much of a bomb and chooses to detonate it in an area where no one else will be killed or seriously injured.
All of it seems to add up. Could there be more to the story? Possibly, but for now, we at least have an alternate theory that makes some sense and explains a lot of the prior discrepancies in the case.
