“We are being led by weak and insensitive leadership that has only served to enrich itself,” one of the letters reads.
The driver linked to the explosion of the Tesla Cybertruck in front of a hotel belonging to Donald Trump’s chain in Las Vegas left two suicide letters written on his phone in which accused the United States of being led by “weak and insensitive leadership,” authorities reported.
“It’s time to wake up (…) we are being led by weak leadership and insensitive that has only served to enrich himself,” reads one of the excerpts of one of the letters shared this Friday to the press by the deputy sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, Dori Koren.
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The alleged person responsible for the explosion, an active member of the US Army named Matthew Livelsberger, explains throughout the writings that his objective was not to commit a “terrorist attack”but rather served as “a wake-up call,” the agent added.
“Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. “What better way to convey my point of view than with a show with fireworks and explosives?” reads the letter collected by the authorities.
He also made it clear that He needed to clear his mind of those people he had lost and relieve himself of the burden of all the lives he had taken, he specified.
The driver linked to this incident, which left seven people injured on January 1, shot himself in the head before blowing up the vehicle with a combination of fireworks, gasoline and fuel tanks found in the rear of the vehicle, according to the police version.
The vehicle was loaded with gas cylinders, camping fuel and high-caliber pyrotechnic mortars, while the Cybertruck was rented in Colorado through the Turo platform (which has a similar rental system between people like Airbnb), as confirmed by the company in a statement.
The explosion occurred after In New Orleans, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, 42, rams a van, also rented through the Turo appinto a crowd, killing at least 14 people before police shot him dead.
Both Livelsberger and Jabbar were part of the same Army base in North Carolina then known as Fort Bragg, although officials say there is no coincidence in their assignments at the base and rule out a correlation between the two events.