The bomber who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas has been identified as Army veteran Matthew Livelsberger.
Although officers have not publicly named Livelsberger, 37, as the bomber, senior law enforcement sources confirmed his identity to KOAA and KTNV.
Livelsberger served over 19 years in the Army - 18 of which were spent with Special Forces, according to his LinkedIn profile. His current role was listed as a Remote and Autonomous Systems Manager, which he had been in for just three months.
The suspected bomber was raised in Colorado Springs and has reportedly been linked to several addresses in the city, included the one searched by investigators.
He is suspected of renting the Elon Musk owned Cybertruck in Colorado Springs, via the Turo app, and driving it across the border to Nevada on Wednesday morning, stopping at various charging stations along the route.
Law enforcement sources revealed that Livelsberger, who died Wednesday in the explosion outside the hotel, had previously served at the same military base as New Orleans terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar.
Jabbar, who had allegedly pledged himself to the Islamic State, rammed a pickup truck - which bore the ISIS flag - into a crowd of New Year revelers, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens.
The FBI has said it does not think Jabbar, 42, was 'solely responsible' for the Bourbon Street attack. Authorities are 'conducting a number of court-authorized search warrants in New Orleans and other states' and investigating his 'potential associations and affiliations' with terroristic organizations.
The bomber who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas has been identified as Army veteran Matthew Livelsberger
The 37-year-old man reportedly has a military background and served at the same base as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, (pictured), who fatally ran down 15 people in a rented car in New Orleans in the early hours of New Years Day
Officials are still exploring how the explosives were detonated, but sources with knowledge of the investigation have expressed that it was likely controlled by the driver.
Livelsberger was the sole fatality in the attack, and authorities largely credit Musk's hulking truck with preventing further damage because it was able to
contain much of the explosion.
Pictured: Vegas terrorist who blew up Cybertruck outside Trump hotel
