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The ex-girlfriend of the man who blew up a Cybertruck in Las Vegas wishes she would have known of his plans when he reached out to her, out of the blue, days before the bombing.

“I don’t know if I could have stopped him,” Alicia Arritt told The Denver Gazette, speaking of the text messages she received from 37-year-old Army ranger Matthew Livelsberger before he killed himself inside the Tesla Cybertruck.

Livelsberger told Arritt, whom he dated from 2018 to 2021, that he felt like Batman in text messages before he blew up the vehicle outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.

“I rented a Tesla Cybertruck. It’s the s***,” he wrote her at 9 a.m. on Sunday from Denver. He continued to text her until New Year’s Eve, sending photos and music videos of the vehicle.

“I feel like Batman or halo,” he reportedly texted his ex-girlfriend at 9:07 a.m. on Sunday.

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After a 2021 breakup, the two had moved on with Livelsberger getting married and recently having a baby daughter.

“I’m building drones in my new position,” he wrote Arritt in another message.”You would love it.”

“How fast is it?” she asked about the rented Cybertruck.

“Ungodly,” he texted back.

According to the Denver Gazette:

Authorities in Las Vegas on Thursday said Livelsberger, a Green Beret, shot himself inside a Tesla Cybertruck on New Year’s Day seconds before the vehicle exploded in front of President-elect Donald Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas.

Livelsberger was a Colorado Springs resident who had spent the majority of his 19-year military career at Fort Carson and on assignment in Germany, according to new information from the U.S. Army and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Arritt, who once served as an Army nurse stationed at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, met Livelsberger, who was in Special Forces after he divorced his first wife. She related that he returned with a brain injury after a tour in the Middle East and his behavior began to change by 2019.

His isolation and depression went untreated, she believes, because “it’s not acceptable to seek treatment when someone is in Special Forces.” As “he wanted to focus on his career,” the two broke up, the single mother told the outlet in a phone interview on Thursday.

Some reports indicated that his wife had recently confronted him about infidelity but there seemed to be no other indications he was suicidal, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk noted in a post on X.

The FBI tracked Arritt from Livelsberger’s text messages but she was at work when they showed up at her door Wednesday evening. They were able to meet up with her Thursday morning and she reportedly showed them messages as well as photos he had sent her of the gold-toned Tesla Cybertruck he rented.

“It matches my Kobe 2 shoes I had when I was little,” he wrote. “Google them.”

The FBI reportedly told Arritt that Livelsberger had contacted other former girlfriends in the days leading up to his death. She described Livelsberger as the “kindest man” she ever knew and how he once bought a home for his mother who had been ill.

“I just want everyone to know that Matt was the kindest man I ever knew,” Arritt told The Denver Gazette. “He got me through a difficult time.”

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