Army records show brief career overlaps between New Orleans and Las Vegas suspects
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The Army veteran who drove a truck through a crowd in New Orleans and the Special Forces master sergeant who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas last week briefly overlapped in their service at Fort Liberty, formerly called Fort Bragg, and while in Afghanistan on deployments.
The Army veteran who drove a truck through a crowd in New Orleans and the Special Forces master sergeant who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas last week briefly overlapped in their service at Fort Liberty, formerly called Fort Bragg, and while in Afghanistan on deployments. For less than a year, Shamsud-Din Jabbar and Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger served at Fort Liberty in North Carolina, with different units, according to their assignment and deployment history provided by the US Army on Sunday. Law enforcement analysts investigating the New Orleans attack and the Las Vegas explosion have assessed there is no connection between the two deadly incidents, which both took place on New Year’s Day, a law enforcement source familiar with the latest intelligence assessment told CNN on Friday. Livelsberger, 37, orchestrated a suicidal bomb, exploding a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Livelsberger wrote of “political grievances,” armed conflicts elsewhere and domestic issues in the days leading up to his suicide, according to officials. The FBI special agent in charge of the bureau’s Las Vegas division called the incident “a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who was struggling with PTSD and other issues.” Jabbar was killed in a firefight with police after he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people. The 42-year-old had pledged allegiance to ISIS. Livelsberger served at Fort Liberty from December 2012 to October 2013 while assigned to a detachment within a Student Support Battalion; Lt. Col. Ruth Castro, an Army spokesperson, said he was a student of a course. The Army’s Special Warfare Center and School is based out of Fort Liberty. Jabbar served from June 2012 to January 2015 as the information technology team chief for the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team.
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