<p class="speakable">The mystery surrounding the motive for the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/auto/make/tesla" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tesla Cybertruck attack</a> outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day only deepened after the final investigative report from local police provided few new details.</p><p class="speakable">The 78-page "after-action" report released Monday by the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/las-vegas-police-say-cybertruck-exploded-trump-hotel-had-fuel-containers-large-firework-mortars" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department</a> (LVMPD), confirmed that Matthew Livelsberger, who died by suicide before the explosion, left a manifesto on his phone, which investigators recovered during forensic analysis. </p><p>The Department of War declared the manifesto classified, and the investigation was turned over to the federal government, the report said.</p><p>The report, seen by Fox News Digital, confirms that the Green Beret was on leave from his Special Forces unit and had <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/travel/general/rental-cars" rel="noopener" target="_blank">rented a Tesla Cybertruck</a> through the car-sharing platform Turo.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-city-hall-evacuated-after-car-drives-sidewalk-front-building-driver-custody" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong><u>LOS ANGELES CITY HALL EVACUATED AFTER CAR DRIVES ONTO SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF BUILDING; DRIVER IN CUSTODY</u></strong></a></p><p>He filled it with fireworks, gas cans and camping fuel, and drove it to the Trump International Hotel just after 8:40 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2025. There, the vehicle detonated, causing damage and injuring six people.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/police-and-law-enforcement" rel="noopener" target="_blank">LVMPD and federal investigators</a> described the incident as a premeditated vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) attack "with the potential to cause mass casualties and extensive structural damage" but did not call it terrorism.</p><p>Investigators also reconstructed <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-army-releases-assignments-shamsud-din-jabbar-matthew-livelsberger-after-new-years-day-attacks" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Livelsberger’s final days</a> using phone data, bank records and surveillance footage.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-captures-devastating-aftermath-st-louis-county-home-explosion-left-teen-critically-injured" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>VIDEO CAPTURES DEVASTATING AFTERMATH OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY HOME EXPLOSION THAT LEFT TEEN CRITICALLY INJURED</strong></a></p><p>Surveillance video showed Livelsberger pouring accelerant into the truck bed moments before detonation, an act LVMPD said reflected planning rather than impulse.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/terror/counter-terrorism" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Counterterrorism investigators</a> concluded he sought to make "a very big, very public statement," suggesting the Las Vegas location was chosen for visibility and impact.</p><p>He also left behind a note claiming the attack was not terror-related, but a way for the soldier to "cleanse" his mind but criticized the "<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/executive/homeland-security" rel="noopener" target="_blank">feckless leadership</a>" of a U.S. that is "near collapse," officials said.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-pittsburgh-field-office-targeted-driver-act-terror-official-says" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>FBI PITTSBURGH FIELD OFFICE TARGETED BY DRIVER IN 'ACT OF TERROR,' OFFICIAL SAYS</strong></a></p><p>"This was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/executive/national-security" rel="noopener" target="_blank">not a terrorist attack</a>, it was a wake-up call," Livelsberger wrote in the notes app on his phone.</p><p>"Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives," Livelsberger wrote.</p><p>One of his messages was said to have gone to Shawn Ryan, an ex-Navy SEAL and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/tech/topics/cia" rel="noopener" target="_blank">CIA contractor</a>.</p><p><a href="https://foxnews.onelink.me/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP</strong></a></p><p>Fox News Digital has reached out to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for comment.</p>