Las Vegas Cybertruck blast suspect Matthew Livelsberger was a ‘Rambo type’ who liked Trump, household says | EUROtoday

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The Green Beret who was driving a Tesla Cybertruck that blew up outdoors the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on New Year’s Day “was a 100 percent patriot,” his bewildered uncle stated Thursday.

Matthew Livelsberger, 37, was “like a Rambo-type, for lack of a better word,” Dean Livelsberger informed The Independent.

Dean, whose older brother is Livelsberger’s father, Roger, himself an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnamstated his nephew “loved the Army.”

“He used to have all patriotic stuff on Facebook, he was 100 percent loving the country,” he continued. “He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American. It’s one of the reasons he was in Special Forces for so many years. It wasn’t just one tour of duty.”

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Dean Livelsberger stated he was conscious of the explosion in Vegas, however had not but been made conscious that Matt, as he referred to as him, had been named because the perpetrator till The Independent contacted him for remark. At first, Dean assumed the explosion had been attributable to “one of those big lithium batteries that short circuited or something,” he stated. He was relieved that the blast solely induced seven minor accidents and didn’t kill anybody else. But, he added, the amateurish development of the explosive gadget, an array of propane tanks, fireworks, and tenting gas, left him with a slew of further questions.

“Matt was a very skilled warrior, and he would be able to make — if it was him, and if he did this — he would’ve been able to make a more sophisticated explosive than using propane tanks and camping fuel. He was what you might call a ‘supersoldier.’ If you ever read about the things he was awarded, and the experience he had, some of it doesn’t make sense, when he had the skills and ability to make something more, let’s say, ‘efficient.’ His skills were enormous from what he had been taught in the military.”

Livelsberger was within the U.S. Army for 19 years, 18 of which had been within the elite Special Forces. He was presently stationed in Germany, and was on depart in Colorado Springs when he rented the Cybertruck and drove to Nevada, legislation enforcement sources stated.

The truck blew up only a few hours after Shamsud-Din Jabbar rammed a truck into New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans killing not less than 15 individuals. Jabbar, 42, was additionally an Army veteran who was posted to the identical base as Livelsberger, and in addition served in Afghanistan across the similar time Livelsberger did. Investigators had been wanting right into a attainable hyperlink between the 2 males, who each rented their autos by the identical carshare service, Turo, however thus far they’ve discovered no “direct” connection between the 2.

Livelsberger divorced his first spouse, who now lives in South Florida together with her new husband, a number of years in the past. Livelsberger shares a new child along with his new accomplice, and in September posted an image on Facebook of himself cradling the toddler in his arms, in response to Dean. Over the previous few months, an array of pictures Livelsberger posted from Germany, together with ones of himself proposing to his accomplice, and the ring he gave her, have “disappeared,” his uncle stated.

Livelsberger’s dad, who was unreachable on Thursday, was married “several times,” and had youngsters with “a couple of different women,” in response to Dean Livelsberger, who has been semi-estranged from his brother for years.

At the identical time, Dean stated, “Matt wasn’t estranged from the family at all. Everyone thought the world of Matt.”