Military ranger Matthew Livelsberger boasted to his ex-girlfriend about renting the Tesla Cybertruck pickup days earlier than he killed himself and blew up the automobile outdoors Trump Worldwide Resort in Las Vegas, claiming he felt like Batman.
The 37-year-old Military soldier playfully reached out to his outdated flame Alicia Arritt at 9 a.m. when he was in Denver on Dec. 29, days after he left his Colorado Springs dwelling as a result of his spouse confronted him for his alleged dishonest.
“I rented a Tesla Cybertruck. It’s the s–t,” Livelsberger mentioned, in accordance with textual content messages obtained by the Denver Gazette.
Arritt didn’t anticipate to listen to from Livelsberger — who had since married and had a baby — for the reason that pair stopped speaking after their breakup in 2021.
The one mom says it was good to listen to from her outdated boyfriend as he despatched a number of extra messages together with images and movies of the truck.
“I really feel like Batman or halo,” Livelsberger texted seven minutes after the preliminary message, referring to the superhero character and online game franchise.
The futuristic truck caught Arritt’s consideration, main her to ask how briskly it goes.
“Ungodly,” Livelsberger responded, in accordance with the outlet.
Livelsberger switched the dialogue to inform Arritt what he had been as much as however by no means gave any indication of the explosive plan.
“I’m constructing drones in my new place,” he mentioned. “You’ll find it irresistible.”
Arritt described Livelsberger because the “kindest man” she ever knew and mentioned he as soon as purchased his sick mom a brand new dwelling.
The 37-year-old Military soldier’s spouse broke up with him on Dec. 26 after she found he was dishonest on her, sources instructed The Submit Thursday.
Livelsberger left the couple’s Colorado Springs dwelling following a post-Christmas argument the place his spouse reportedly instructed him that she knew he had been dishonest, the sources mentioned.
After leaving the house, Livelsberger used the Turo app to lease the Cybertruck earlier than driving to Las Vegas.
He parked the explosives-filled automobile within the valet space of the Trump Resort the place he fatally shot himself within the head.
Livelsberger was the one individual killed within the incident and his physique was burned past recognition. Authorities recognized him from his passport and Military ID discovered contained in the truck.
Seven folks sustained minor accidents from the blast.
Investigators found fireworks-style mortars, tenting gas and canisters contained in the truck.
The FBI was investigating to see if the bombing was politically charged as a result of it occurred outdoors a lodge owned by President-elect Donald Trump and inside a automobile made by the corporate of Trump’s shut ally Elon Musk.
Arritt questioned why Livelsberger would do it, as she knew him as a conservative, the Denver Gazette reported.
Officers are additionally investigating whether or not the lively Particular Forces soldier, recognized to be a “Rambo-type patriot” and staunch Trump supporter, purposefully picked a Cybertruck to restrict civilian casualties, a supply instructed The Submit.