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Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion: Investigators look for clues along driver's Arizona route

This undated photo, provided by the Las Vegas Police Department shows a passport belonging to Matthew Livelsberger, found inside a Tesla Cybertruck involved in an explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
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This undated photo, provided by the Las Vegas Police Department shows a passport belonging to Matthew Livelsberger, found inside a Tesla Cybertruck involved in an explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.

Investigators looking into the New Year’s Day explosion of a Cybertruck in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas say they want to speak with people who stopped at certain electric car charging stations in Arizona.

The driver rented the truck in Denver and passed through Arizona early Wednesday morning on his way to Las Vegas, Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said during a press briefing Thursday.

“On Jan. 1, the truck was charged in Holbrook, Flagstaff and Kingman, Arizona. We last tracked the truck in Kingman at 5:33 yesterday (Wednesday) morning. The truck was first spotted in Las Vegas at 7:29 a.m.,” McMahill said.

This undated photo, provided by the Las Vegas Police Department shows the Tesla Cybertruck involved in an explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas Police Department
This undated photo, provided by the Las Vegas Police Department shows the Tesla Cybertruck involved in an explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.

McMahill said investigators hope to speak to other drivers who may have been at those Arizona Tesla charging locations at the same time as the suspect.

“We’re looking to try to identify them because their vehicles would have also had cameras that would have taped anybody in and around them,” McMahill said.

A passport found inside the exploded truck showed the 37-year-old suspect, Matthew Livelsberger, was born in Arizona, though he had recently been living in Colorado.

Katherine Davis-Young is a senior field correspondent reporting on a variety of issues, including public health and climate change.
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