The man police say committed suicide before detonating explosives outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday was deemed not to be a threat to himself or the public after he sought mental health treatment, CNN reported Saturday night.
Investigators in Vegas say Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old active-duty Greene Beret, injured seven people in the blast which caused minimal damage to the building but injured seven bystanders. The rented Tesla Cybertruck Livelsberger was driving also sustained significant damage.
Police said on Friday that Livelsberger left behind two messages that were critical of Democrats and American culture. Little else has been confirmed about the decorated war veteran.
Per CNN’s Natasha Chen, Livelsberger recently sought mental health treatment through the Department of Veterans Affairs and was found not to have been homicidal or suicidal.
Chen joined network anchor Jessica Dean and reported of Livelsberger:
He had visited the military Behavioral Health program multiple times in recent months and was diagnosed with depression last year. But he had not been assessed to be a risk to harm himself or others. The day before this explosion, he had sent an email to some online media outlets saying that he was armed and that he had a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. So authorities are really looking through his phone data now to see what else he might have written. There seems to be a log of activity that he wrote for the ten days leading up to this
explosion. Again, he had rented this Cybertruck, driven it from Colorado to Nevada, purchased two guns legally, and shortly before this happened. And investigators say he killed himself and set off these explosives almost at the same time right in front of that Trump hotel on New Year’s Day.
In one message released by police Friday, Livelsberger wrote:
Military and vets move on DC starting now. Militias facilitate and augment this activity.Occupy every major road along fed buildings and the campus of fed buildings by the hundreds of thousands.Lock the highways around down with semis right after everybody gets in. Hold until the purge is complete.Try peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of the fed government and military by any means necessary. They all must go and a hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse.
You can read both of the suspect’s messages in full here.
Watch above via CNN.