A highly decorated Army soldier who fatally shot himself just before an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck at the Trump hotel in Las Vegas left a note saying it was a stunt to serve as “wake up call” for the country’s ills.

Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, also wrote in notes he left on his cellphone that he needed to “cleanse” his mind “of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” Livelsberger served in the Army since 2006 and deployed twice to Afghanistan.

“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,” Livelsberger wrote in one letter found by authorities and released Friday.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    “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,” Livelsberger wrote

    Well, called that one.

    https://lemmy.today/post/21461160/13254268

    The glass doors right next to the vehicle look intact in the image, so I can’t imagine that the explosion was very large.

    https://lemmy.today/post/21508888/13272957

    The only thing that piques my interest there is, if that guy intended a larger explosion – and maybe he didn’t, maybe he just wanted to get the thing in the news than to do a lot of damage – how he couldn’t pull it off, if the guy was a Green Beret.