The highly decorated Army soldier inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas shot himself in the head just before detonation, authorities said Thursday.
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00:00We also discovered through the coroner's office that the individual had sustained
00:05a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the vehicle. One of the
00:13handguns was found at his feet inside of the vehicle. Obviously in how we're
00:19trying to identify him and I'm feeling comfortable to give you this information
00:22is a tremendous amount of substantial evidence to include he rented the Turo
00:28vehicle. There are two tattoos one of which was on the stomach and one of
00:34which is on the arm that we can see bits and pieces of it as in comparison to
00:38what it is that we now know he had on his body that has given us a lot of
00:44confidence that this is in fact the same person. So through extensive
00:51surveillance video we were able to track him leaving there and we know that he
00:54went to several different places along Las Vegas Boulevard and he spent some
01:00time in a parking lot of a business near Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard. We
01:05didn't have a video of the truck pulling back onto Las Vegas Boulevard from the
01:10Sands. See that there goes that's north on the Boulevard from Sands at 839 where
01:25he then immediately heads to the Trump Hotel pulls into the valet area and as
01:30of course you all know the explosion occurs within 17 seconds of his arrival
01:35at the valet. It's not lost on us that it's in front of you know of the
01:40Trump building that it's a Tesla vehicle but we don't have information at
01:45this point that definitively tells us or suggests it was because of this
01:48particular ideology or that you know any of the reasoning behind it. That's the
01:52purpose of the investigation that we're conducting is to get to the bottom of
01:55exactly what happened why and how. Other than the windows being gone that that's
02:00a bit more disassembled than it was at the scene and the back area being blown
02:06off. There's no evidence of physical damage to the sides of that vehicle and
02:10so the explosion that was in that vehicle sort of vented out and up but it
02:17didn't even damage the glass doors at the Trump. The level of sophistication is
02:20not what we would expect from from an individual with this type of military
02:25experience. That most of that the materials inside that Tesla were fuel to
02:32to help fuel a greater explosion. But it's too early to answer any
02:38question as if there was sophisticated connectivity to those
02:44components to to make it ignite in the way that it did. But I would like to
02:48highlight a couple of things that the teams found inside of the Cybertruck
02:51that are useful to the investigation and that first and foremost is a military
02:56identification. We also found a passport. We found a Desert Eagle 50 caliber
03:04semi-automatic pistol.