Despite having a carefully thought-out suicide plan, the Cybertruck bomber’s route from Colorado to Nevada indicates an embarrassing mistake.
Law enforcement officials identified Matthew Livelsperger, 37, as the person who rented a cyber truck, filled it with explosives and detonated it outside Donald Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas on January 1.
Now, a map of the route he took from Denver to Las Vegas reveals that he not only drove for four hours, but stopped in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The strangely long and winding journey sparked speculation that he had put the wrong destination into his GPS.
The quickest route from Denver to Las Vegas, Nevada is via I-70 W and I-15 S, which will take a total driving time of 11 hours and eight minutes.
Instead, tA highly decorated Army Special Forces staff sergeant From I-25 S to I-40 W, which was 15 hours and 28 minutes.
The map, created by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in Nevada, shows he stopped to charge the Cybertruck eight times.
According to Tesla, Cybertrucks can travel up to 325 miles on a single charge. But the furthest Levelsberger traveled between charges was just 148 miles, less than half that maximum distance.
Authorities have mapped the route that “cyber truck bomber” Matthew Livelsperger took from Denver, Colorado, to Las Vegas, Nevada, in the days before his attack on the Trump International Hotel.
If Levelsberger had taken the faster route, 1-70 West to 1-15 South, he would have encountered at least 14 Tesla charging stations along the way, suggesting that access to charging stations seems unlikely to be the reason Levelsberger chose the route. The longest.
Interestingly, the 1-25S is almost a straight shot to Las Vegas, New Mexico, one of the locations where shipping stopped.
When comparing his chosen route to the more direct route, it appears as if Livelsperger may have wrongly mapped himself to the wrong Las Vegas, as many have speculated on social media.
“I wonder if he went to Las Vegas, then New Mexico and realized he was in the wrong place,” one X user posted.
“Imagine the embarrassment he felt when he ended up in the wrong Las Vegas first,” another wrote.
To add another layer of weirdness to Livelsberger’s movements, he appears to have stopped charging more than he needed to during his trip.
The furthest he traveled between charges was just 148 miles, less than half the distance the Cybertruck can travel on a single charge.
Law enforcement officials identified Matthew Livelsberger, 37, as the person who rented a cyber truck, filled it with explosives and detonated it outside a Las Vegas hotel on Jan. 1.
Images from traffic cameras were used to piece together the Cybertruck’s movements around Las Vegas on January 1
The Cybertruck entered the Trump Hotel’s valet parking area for the second time at 8:39 a.m. Within 17 seconds, the truck exploded. The driver shot himself just moments ago
On December 28, Livelsberger rented a Cybertruck in Denver, Colorado using peer-to-peer car rental platform Turo.
Heading southeast, the truck stopped in Monument, Colorado on December 30, where it was shipped.
On the same day, Livelsberger legally purchased two semi-automatic pistols, according to Kenny Cooper, assistant special agent in charge of the ATF’s field division in San Francisco.
On December 31, the Cybertruck made several stops to charge at the following locations: Trinidad, Colorado; Las Vegas, New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Gallup in New Mexico.
Contents of a Tesla Cyber Truck left after the explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on January 1, 2025
Among the charred items found inside the truck was a handgun at Livelsperger’s feet, another firearm, a number of fireworks, a passport, credit cards, an iPhone, a smart watch, and his military ID.
On January 1, the day of the explosion, the truck was shipped to Holbrook, Flagstaff, and Kingman, Arizona. This final charge was made at 5:33 a.m. about 100 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada.
The truck was first spotted in Las Vegas, Nevada, around 7:30 a.m. on January 1.
At 7:34 a.m., the truck was seen heading toward Fashion Show Drive, where the Trump International Hotel is located.
The Cybertruck drove through the hotel’s valet parking, then spent the next hour — from 7:34 to 8:35 a.m. — driving to several different locations along Las Vegas Boulevard.
The truck spent approximately 45 minutes in a commercial parking lot near Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road.
At 8:35 a.m., the Cybertruck stopped on Las Vegas Boulevard from Sands Avenue.
The Cybertruck re-entered the Trump Hotel valet parking area at 8:39 a.m. Within 17 seconds, the truck exploded.
At some point during those 17 seconds, the driver shot himself in the head, according to Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill.
Pictured are the items found in the back of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
The driver was killed and burned beyond recognition. But Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill. Aid investigators obtained photos of the charging station showing Livelsperger was the driver
The driver was killed and burned beyond recognition. But McMahill said investigators obtained photos from the charging station that showed Livelsperger “was the person driving this vehicle” and was alone.
According to the coroner’s report, the cause of death was suicide by gunshot.
The explosion resulted in seven people being injured, but no damage was caused to the hotel. Livelsberger was the only one killed.
McMahill said it was possible Livelsperger had planned a more damaging attack, but the steel-sided vehicle absorbed much of the force of the improvised explosive.
Upon examining the wreckage, authorities found fireworks mortar shells and camp fuel canisters stuffed into the back of the E-truck, indicating that this was a planned and premeditated attack.
At this time, authorities are still working to determine Livelsberger’s motives.