At least five Tesla Vehicles in Las Vegas were damaged at the beginning of Tuesday in a “target attack” with two completely swallowed vehicles and others fired with weapons, according to authorities.
At about 2:45 am, officers of the Metropolitan Police Department of Las Vegas responded to several reports of Tesla vehicles that set fire to a Tesla collision center. Police found at least five damaged Tesla vehicles, including two that were wrapped in flames, and the word “resist” in red painted in the center.
The suspect also shot at least three rounds in vehicles and is believed to use Molotov cocktails for fire, according to police.
The researchers are still looking for the suspect and said that the individual approached the Tesla installation in black clothes. The FBI joint terrorism group is investigating with Las Vegas police.
Las Vegas’s incident follows a Protest and violence chain at Tesla’s facilities At the national level, the role of Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, in the Working Group of President Trump Trump, the Government Efficiency Department, or doge. Other incidents have included the graffiti in a sign of Tesla dealership, the Molotov cocktails thrown to the batch of another dealership, and the Tesla charging stations were burned.
On Monday, the San Diego County Xerif office informed Several Tesla vehicles with swastika painted by spraying. No arrests have been made in this incident.
Musk responded to Las Vegas’s incident on his X platform, calling it “terrorism. “”
“”This level of violence is crazy and deeply wrong, “Musk wrote to his Publication of social networks. “Tesla only does electric cars and she has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi called the violence against Tesla on Tuesday “Nothing of domestic terrorism”.
“The Department of Justice has already accused several authors, included in cases that involve positions with mandatory minimum sentences of five years,” Bondi said in a statement. “We will continue investigations that impose serious consequences on those involved in these attacks, including those operating between the racks to coordinate and finance these crimes.”
Trump also told journalists last week that he would label violence against Tesla’s facilities as “domestic terrorism”.