LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JANUARY 01: A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department vehicle blocks the road near the Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas after a Tesla Cybertruck exploded in front of the entrance on January 01, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A person who was in the vehicle died and seven people were injured. Authorities are investigating the incident as a possible terrorist attack and are looking for a possible connection to a deadly crash in New Orleans. Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Ethan Miller / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
January 2, 2025
Motivation ‘unknown’ for Cybertruck blast at Trump Vegas hotel: FBI
LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) – Authorities said Thursday they did not yet know why a suspect blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, an incident that investigators are probing as a potential act of “terror.”
“The motivation at this point is unknown,” FBI Special Agent Spencer Evans told reporters, adding that it was “not lost” on agents that the blast took place in front of a hotel linked to US President-elect Donald Trump, with Tesla owned by prominent Trump backer Elon Musk.
“But we don’t have information at this point that definitively tells us” it was driven by any particular ideology, he said.
