Authorities said Thursday that the man who died in the Tesla Cybertruck outside of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, had a gunshot wound to his head prior to the explosion.
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a news conference Thursday that the suspected individual who died, Matthew Alan Livelsberger, had a gunshot wound to the head and a handgun located near his feet inside the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded on Wednesday morning. Police have not definitively confirmed that Livelsberger is the individual who died in the incident.
“As I mentioned to you already, his body is burnt beyond recognition and I [still do] not have confirmation 100% that that is the individual that was inside of our vehicle,” McMahill said. “And so, as I’m calling it now, the subject or person of interest, I would not come back until I have the confirmation through DNA or…