2 days Ago By Vaishali Shastri
Just hours after Shamsud-Din Jabbar rammed a truck into New Year’s Day revellers in New Orleans killing at least 15 people, reports came in of a second suspected terror attack in Las Vegas. On Thursday, US media reports suggested Matthew Livelsberger as the man who blasted a Tesla Cybertruck outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel at 8.40 a.
m. on Wednesday. Police are finding out any terrorist attack angle.
37 years old Livelsberger who died in the blast with seven other sustaining minor injuries was from Colorado Springs. He was a US army veteran and served at Fort Bragg military base and served at Afghanistan. Livelsberger was on-duty with the Army serving in Germany and was on leave in Colorado when the incident took place.
According to some sources, his wife was not aware of his whereabouts as Livelsberger did not contact her for several days before the incident. Livelsberger’s spent 19 years in the US Army and gave 18 years in the Special Forces, his LinkedIn profile says. His profile picture shows him wearing winter gear armed with an assault rifle and standing on top of a snowmobile in mountainous terrain.
He is also said to have joined the Green Beret’s as a communication's specialist in January 2006 after which he became an operations manager and team sergeant in February 2023. Since November 2024 he was listed as a Remote and Autonomous Systems Manager for the Army. He was also awarded with a summa cum laude, given when students earn highest grades in their class.
He graduated from Norwich University in Vermont with a degree in Strategic Studies and Defense Analysis, says his social media profile. The profile also mentions his earning the Department of State Meritorious Honor Award for “interagency contributions that resulted in increased interoperability and efficiency while serving as the Operations Sergeant at Special Operations Command Forward”..
