Las Vegas Driver Left Note: “This Was A Wake Up Call”

The Associated Press reports:

A highly decorated Army soldier who died in an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck at the Trump hotel in Las Vegas left a note saying it was stunt to serve as “wakeup call” for the country’s ills, investigators said Friday.

Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, also wrote in the note that he needed to “cleanse my mind” of the lives lost of people he knew and “the burden of the lives I took.”

“This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wakeup call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives,” Livelsberger wrote in a letter found by authorities who released only excerpts of it.

The Colorado Sun reports:

In one letter, read by Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren of the Las Vegas Metropolitan police, Livelsberger wrote: “Fellow service members, veterans and all Americans, time to wake up, we are being led by weak and fecalist leadership who only serve to enrich themselves.”

In another note, he wrote: “We are the United States of America, the best country people to ever exist. But right now we are terminally ill and headed toward collapse,” Koren said.

Investigators continue to collect evidence to determine his motivation, but they do not believe it was a terrorist attack, Spencer Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas Division said.

Livelsberger, who took his own life with a gunshot before the explosion, was burned beyond recognition and was only conclusively identified via a DNA comparison to relatives, the Associated Press notes. In the press conference below, investigators discuss the notes and say there is no apparent connection to the Las Vegas incident and the attack in New Orleans. They also said that Livelsberger may have suffered from PTSD and bore “no animosity” towards Trump.