Green Beret who exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas struggled with injuries and said he was depressed, ex-girlfriend says

The active-duty US Army Green Beret who authorities say exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas this week struggled with injuries relating to his military service and said he was depressed while they were together a few years ago, an ex-girlfriend of his told CNN.

The active-duty US Army Green Beret who authorities say exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas this week struggled with injuries relating to his military service and said he was depressed while they were together a few years ago, an ex-girlfriend of his told CNN. The soldier, Matthew Alan Livelsberger, who authorities said fatally shot himself shortly before the truck exploded, texted her in late December after more than two years of silence between the two, but she had no impression he was planning anything like Wednesday’s incident, she said. Alicia Arritt dated Livelsberger from 2018 to 2019 and from 2020 to about 2022 after they met through a dating app while both were living in Colorado, she told CNN on Saturday. She had been an Army nurse, The Associated Press reported. Livelsberger suffered concussions, but it’s not clear how many, Arritt told CNN. Arritt, who said she had worked at a traumatic brain injury unit at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2008 and 2009, was not involved in his treatment. He also had back surgeries in 2018 and 2019 relating to injuries he suffered during his military service, she said. “He just says he landed bad (after parachuting) too many times. It was … cumulative,” she told CNN.