Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger’s wife broke up with him days before explosion, report says
The active-duty Green Beret had argued with his wife after she told him she suspected he had been cheating, according to the report
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The wife of the Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger left him just days before he detonated the vehicle outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, according to a report.
The active-duty Green Beret had argued with his wife after she told him she suspected he had been cheating, the New York Post reports, citing law enforcement sources.
Livelsberger left his home in Colorado Springs the day after Christmas following the argument with his wife, less than a week before he blew up the Tesla Cybertruck on New Year’s Day, two sources familiar with the investigation told the newspaper.
He and his wife had a baby daughter.
It has also emerged that Livelsberger had reportedly been back in touch with former girlfriends in the days before the explosion.
He boasted to one of them, Alicia Arritt, that he “felt like Batman” after renting the Tesla Cybertruck.
Arritt, from Colorado Springs, his former girlfriend of three years, said the 37-year-old got in touch with her on December 29 out of the blue.
“I rented a Tesla Cybertruck. It’s the s***,” he texted Arritt that morning, the Denver Gazette reports. “I feel like Batman or halo,” he added.
Arritt met Livelsberger in 2018 when she was working as an army nurse stationed at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany while he was in Special Forces, the outlet reports.
Arritt, a single mother, told the newspaper she was surprised to hear from Livelsberger. The pair had split in 2021 because “he wanted to focus on his career.”
“I’m building drones in my new position,” he told her in the excited-sounding messages. “You would love it.”
“How fast is it?” Arritt asked Livelsberger. “Ungodly,” he replied.
Arritt revealed the FBI knocked on her door after discovering the messages on Livelsberger’s phone, and that agents told her she was not the only former girlfriend the army veteran had contacted in his final days.
“I don’t know if I could have stopped him,” she said.
According to Arritt, Livelsberger’s behavior changed after he returned from a tour in the Middle East suffering from a traumatic brain injury in 2019.
She told the Gazette that he became isolated after the tour and believed that he needed to seek help for his mental health, but didn’t.
“It’s not acceptable to seek treatment when someone is in Special Forces,” Arritt said.
Livelsberger’s uncle, Dean Livelsberger, told The Independent his nephew was “like a Rambo-type, for lack of a better word.”
Dean, whose older brother is Livelsberger’s father, Roger, who himself is an air force veteran who served in Vietnam, said his nephew “loved the army.”
“He used to have all patriotic stuff on Facebook, he was 100 per cent loving the country,” he continued. “He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American. It’s one of the reasons he was in Special Forces for so many years. It wasn’t just one tour of duty.”
At a press conference on Thursday, the FBI said that there was “no definitive link” between the Las Vegas incident and the terror attack in New Orleans that happened hours earlier on New Year’s Day.