The Army veteran who drove a truck through a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day and the Special Forces master sergeant who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas briefly overlapped in their service at Fort Liberty, a base in North Carolina. According to their assignment and deployment history, Shamsud-Din Jabbar and Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger served at Fort Liberty for less than a year with different units.
Livelsberger, 37, orchestrated a suicide by explosion at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, where he wrote about “political grievances” and armed conflicts before his death. The FBI said the incident was a “tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who was struggling with PTSD and other issues.”
Jabbar, 42, 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. He had pledged allegiance to ISIS.
The two men also deployed to Afghanistan at the same time, although it is unclear where in the country they were stationed. Livelsberger was a student at the Army’s Special Warfare Center and School, while Jabbar was a human resources specialist.
After leaving Fort Liberty, Livelsberger was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, with the 10th Special Forces Group, and then in Germany, while Jabbar moved into the Army Reserve, serving in Georgia and Texas.
The records also showed that Livelsberg had deployed nine times throughout his career, including five deployments to Afghanistan, and others to Tajikistan, Ukraine, the Republic of Georgia, and the Republic of Congo.