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It went immediately up and down Las Vegas Boulevard before immediately pulling into the Trump Towers,
Mr McMahill added
I have to thank Elon Musk specifically,
McMahill said
Law enforcement currently believes it was most likely intentional."
Musk continued in a follow-up post ... He also
This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could,
Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said at a news conference
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The fact that this was a Cybertruck really limited the damage that occurred inside of the valet, because it had most of the blast go up, through the truck and out … The front glass doors at the Trump hotel were not even broken."
Musk's pro-Trump political action committee, America PAC, also said on social mediaThis is a Tesla truck, and we know that Elon Musk is working with President-elect Trump, and it's the Trump Tower,
Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Wednesday when asked about possible connectionsOur number one goal is to ensure that we have the proper identification of the subject involved in this incident,
said Jeremy Schwartz, acting special agent in charge for the FBI's Las Vegas office, on WednesdayThe evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack. Cybertruck actually contained the explosion and directed the blast upwards. Not even the glass doors of the lobby were broken,
he wrote alongside a post by journalist Nick Sortor regarding the explosion
Appears likely to be an act of terrorism.”
In a post on X (formerly called Twitter), Elon Musk wrote
What I also would like you to pay attention to on that video as you see that, it looks like the exterior of that truck is completely intact as it sits there,
McMahill said
The first one where we saw the fire, the second one, I guess, was the battery or something like that, and the third was the big one that smoked the entire area and was the moment when everyone was told to evacuate and stay away,
Bruce said
While there are no immediate threats to our city at this time, out of an abundance of caution, we have heightened security and have increased NYPD presence at relevant locations, including at Trump Tower and in Times Square,
Adams said in the post
My friend who did the Grucci fireworks show in Las Vegas just now texted me that there was a huge explosion at Trump Tower in Vegas."
Netizens shared their concerns online, saying
I just heard a boom. There's a lot of smoke. It was like a boom, boom, boom. It almost sounded like a rolling garbage dumpster, then I saw that pop up."
A witness who captured the event, saidSome sort of explosion at Trump Tower in Las Vegas. No idea what happened yet."
Others saidThe whole Tesla senior team is investigating this matter right now, ... We’ve never seen anything like this."
he said in a post on X, adding
We have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself, ... All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion."
Musk said in a post on XObviously a Cybertruck, the Trump hotel -- there's lots of questions that we have to answer,
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a press conferenceAs you can imagine, with an explosion here on iconic Las Vegas Boulevard, we are taking all the precautions that we need to take to keep our community safe. We're looking for secondary devices,
McMahill said,We've got a lot of questions,
Schwartz said