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2025-01-04 -Obits-
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Special Forces NCO Who Detonated Cybertruck Left Note Calling Attack a 'Wake-Up Call'
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[Mil.com] The active-duty Green Beret soldier who died after blowing up a Tesla Cybertruck in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day left a note calling the attack a "wake-up call" for the country, investigators said Friday.
"Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives?" Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger, the career Special Forces operative who detonated the rented Cybertruck and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, wrote in the recovered note. "Why did I personally do it now? I need to cleanse my mind of the brothers I've lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took."
The note was released as the latest detail in an investigation that had sought a motive in the vehicle bombing by Livelsberger, who was assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group headquartered at Fort Carson, Colorado, and stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. In what appeared Friday to be a bizarre coincidence, an Army veteran killed 14 people celebrating in New Orleans in the early morning of New Year's Day using a rental truck with an Islamic State terrorist group flag.
"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," FBI agent Spencer Evans told reporters at a press conference late Friday in Las Vegas, speaking about Livelsberger and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who left the military in 2020, was a civilian at the time of his attack. He also served only in conventional units at Fort Liberty and Fort Richardson, Alaska. Livelsberger, on the other hand, was still serving in the Army with 10th Special Forces Group in Germany and was just months away from completing the 20 years of service required for a full retirement package. He also had no obvious connections to radical ideologies. Defense officials say the two men never served in the same unit.
Livelsberger's personal life had not been steady either.
Public records show that he married his first wife in 2012 in Ohio. However, the couple ended up divorcing about five years later, according to the wife's friend who spoke with multiple media outlets and described Livelsberger as controlling and unsupportive.
A former girlfriend also told multiple outlets that Livelsberger's behavior changed in 2019 after he returned from a Middle East deployment with a traumatic brain injury, saying that he became isolated and struggled with mental issues.
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