Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger, an active duty Green Beret for almost 20 years, shot himself just before the truck exploded, police said.

The man behind the wheel of a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded on Wednesday in Las Vegas was an active-duty member of the U.S. Army.

Law enforcement officials released new information Tuesday on Matthew Livelsberger, the man who shot himself and blew up a Tesla Cybertruck at the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day.

Sixteen years before he fatally shot himself and detonated low-grade explosives in the back of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger of the Army’s 10th Special Forces Group arranged for a shipment of 200 stuffed animals,

Sheriff Kevin McMahill revealed during a press conference that the soldier, identified as Matthew Livelsberger of Colorado utilised the generative artificial intelligence chatbot to gather information for his plot.