A second letter appeared to shed more light on Livelsberger’s thinking.
“We are the United States of America, the best country … to ever exist, but right now, we are terminally ill and headed towards collapse,” a second letter said. “This was not a terrorist attack. It was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives. … I need to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost, and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.”
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Livelsberger expressed other grievances, including about conflicts elsewhere in the world, and domestic and societal issues, Koren said. He cautioned that investigators continue to go through evidence found on the cellphone, and Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said investigators have been unable to access a second phone found in the Cybertruck.
Evans said authorities have not established any firm connections between the Cybertruck explosion and the alleged terrorist attack that occurred in New Orleans hours earlier that killed 14 people on Bourbon Street.
The only links investigators have established appeared incidental and coincidental, including that both suspects rented their vehicles from the same company.
Livelsberger also held no animosity toward President-elect Donald Trump, Evans said.
Livelsberger was definitively identified on Thursday as the suspect behind the blast, Las Vegas police said. The Clark County coroner determined that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Authorities said they were able to identify Livelsberger’s badly burned body through various means, including family DNA and tattoos.
Livelsberger, 37, was on approved leave from the military when he rented a Tesla Cybertruck and drove from Colorado to Las Vegas, according to law enforcement officials. Fireworks and gas in the bed of that truck would later ignite after he parked it just outside of the Trump hotel’s entrance.
One soldier who served with Livelsberger said he frequently expressed his political views on social media, describing most of the posts as “patriotic” and very pro-military, but adding that it caused a rift with some fellow soldiers over their political differences.
“He posted a lot of political messages on social media that made some of us uncomfortable,” the person said. The soldiers asked their names be withheld because they’re not authorized to speak publicly about service members.
Alicia Arritt, a former girlfriend of Livelsberger’s, told NBC News she dated him on and off for about three years. She said he was a proud soldier who also battled chronic pain, which she said he hid from his superiors.
She said he was not overtly political when she knew him, and that she had lost touch with him in recent years before suddenly receiving text messages from him in recent days. The messages included that he had rented a Cybertruck, but did not hint at what he was about to do.
Livelsberger’s uncle Dean Livelsberger also told The Independent that Livelsberger was a very patriotic American who was an avid supporter of Trump’s. He did not immediately respond to an NBC News interview request.
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Online, Livelsberger documented trips to Thailand and Italy on Tripadvisor, and contributed photos to Google Maps that included food at a bar bistro in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and a church in France, as well as warning of a scam at a club in the country of Georgia. He also posted about attractions in Colorado, where he lived.
Beyond that, Livelsberger had a relatively limited online presence that included a LinkedIn page and a Facebook profile.
In his military career, Livelsberger deployed to the Republic of the Congo in 2014, Ukraine in 2016, Tajikistan in 2016 and Afghanistan in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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