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Cybertruck Bomber to Ex: My Tesla Makes Me Feel ‘Like Batman’
The Cybertruck bomber shared a rave review for the Tesla car he later blew up in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, writing that the futuristic vehicle had him feeling like a superhero.
Matthew Livelsberger, 37, messaged his ex-girlfriend Alicia Arritt in the days before the explosion that killed him and injured six others outside the Trump International Hotel, according to the Denver Gazette.
“I rented a Tesla Cybertruck. It’s the s---,” he texted Arritt on December 29 after renting the Tesla truck in Denver.
“I feel like Batman or halo,” he added seven minutes later, referencing the sci-fi military video game.
“How fast is it?” Livelsberger’s ex asked of the Cybertruck.
“Ungodly,” he replied.
The Gazette wrote that Arritt, a single mother, was surprised to hear from the U.S. Army Green Beret as she and Livelsberger had broken up three years before.
“I just want everyone to know that Matt was the kindest man I ever knew,” she told the publication. “He got me through a difficult time.”
She said she had no idea why he would blow up the vehicle, and knew him as an honorable man who had bought his mother a house when she fell ill. She described Livelsberger as a conservative who loved his country, but claimed his behavior changed when he returned from a Middle East tour of duty after suffering a traumatic brain injury. (She also said he had two back surgeries stemming from his years as a paratrooper.)
Arritt, from Colorado Springs, said she was an Army nurse stationed in Germany when she met Livelsberger in 2018 after he was divorced from his first wife, Sara.
The New York Post reported that the soldier’s second wife broke up with him on December 26 after allegedly discovering he had cheated on her.
Neighbors said Livelsberger and his second wife recently had a baby.
“He seemed like a normal guy. His wife is awesome, too. I never expected anything like that. I would never have thought it would have been him,” Cindy Helwig told the Gazette.