A Colorado Springs man rented a Tesla Cybertruck and boasted about it to an ex-girlfriend before fatally shooting himself inside the vehicle on New Year's Day. Investigators are working to determine the exact cause of the suicide, but they found writings on his phone expressing concerns about the US leadership and the country's future.
Matthew Livelsberger was boasting about his rented Tesla Cybertruck to an old girlfriend on New Year's Eve, according to text messages shared with NBC News.The pair hadn’t been in touch since 2022. Over the next couple days, they exchanged a few breezy texts, and on New Year’s Eve morning Livelsberger began sending photos and videos of a Tesla Cybertruck he said he had rented.U.S.
& WorldIt wasn’t until two days later, when FBI agents showed up at Arritt’s home, that she learned the painful truth: Livelsberger, 37, had shot himself inside the Tesla seconds before it blew up in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day. “They actually asked if I wanted to watch the video of him dying,” Arritt said in an interview. “It was awful to learn about it.” Investigators are still working to definitively determine what led Livelsberger to commit suicide. He was a master sergeant in the U.S. Army’s elite special forces unit and resident of Colorado Springs.In a press conference Friday afternoon, law enforcement officials said they found writings in Livelsberger's phone which described the country's leadership as'weak' and the U.S. as'terminally ill and headed towards collapse.'The officials added that the investigation determined, in consultation with the Army, that Livelsberger likely suffered from PTSD, and that investigators are aware that there were potential “family issues or personal grievances in his own life that may have been contributing factors.” Arritt, speaking to NBC News before the Friday news conference, said she had no idea what was behind her ex-boyfriend’s death. “I’ve just been rolling it around my head for two days. I don’t understand it,” she said. “He was always really brave. So whatever he thought he was doing, I bet he thought it was brave.” The pair dated on and off for three years starting in 2018. They bonded over a love of the outdoors. They also had military service in commo
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