NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre has questioned the deadly attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas amid his own confusion over the incidents.
New Year’s Eve revelry quickly turned into terror in the early hours of Wednesday when a US Army veteran drove a truck into the crowds celebrating on New Orleans’ infamous Bourbon Street, leaving 14 dead and at least 35 injured.
Hours later, Matthew Livelsberger blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, injuring seven victims in the attack. Livelsberger, 37, shot himself in the head as the makeshift explosives he planted blew up around him, leaving his body charred beyond recognition.
In the wake of the devastating attacks, Favre, a former Super Bowl-winning quarterback, expressed skepticism with his followers on X, formerly known as Twitter.
‘What’s going on with the New Orleans and Trump Hotel story? A lot of information and hard to sift through to see what’s real!’ the former Green Bay Packers star wrote.
Many of his followers appeared to share Favre’s confusion with one claiming the ‘FBI is covering it up best they can.’
NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre has questioned the deadly attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas
In the wake of the devastating attacks, Favre expressed skepticism with his followers on X
Another alleged that ‘they,’ appearing to reference national authorities, want the public to be confused.
‘If you figure it out (sic), lmk please!!! My brain can’t take anymore after the way this week has gone,’ one baffled social media user pleaded.
‘Officials are saying the two attacks are unrelated, but the two guys were former soldiers who served at Fort Bragg together in the past,’ another claimed.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen born and raised in Texas carried out the deadly attack in New Orleans.
Meanwhile, Livelsberger was identified by law enforcement sources as the bomber in the Wednesday attack in Las Vegas.
He served over 19 years in the Army – 18 of which were spent with the Special Forces, according to his LinkedIn profile. His current role was listed as a Remote and Autonomous Systems Manager, which he had been in for just three months.
Law enforcement sources revealed that Livelsberger had previously served at the same military base as New Orleans terrorist Jabbar. Police have not confirmed if the pair were known to each other.
Both Army vet Jabbar and Green Beret Livelsberger received training at Fort Liberty, the nation’s largest base formerly known as Fort Bragg, in North Carolina.
An explosive blast killed one person and injured half a dozen more when it went off outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday
14 people died after a driver rammed into the large group at high speed in New Orleans
An official told the Associated Press that there is no overlap in their assignments at the base, which has a a population of roughly 47,000 active-duty soldiers and is home to multiple Army special operations units.
DailyMail.com sent a list of detailed questions to Fort Liberty, including whether they have opened a probe into the men’s time there, but was directed to the Pentagon.
The Pentagon also did not answer DailyMail.com’s specific questions about the two men’s time at Fort Liberty. Instead, they provided a previous statement about the suspects’ military records.
‘Due to the ongoing investigations, we will not be providing any additional information at this time,’ the Pentagon said.
Las Vegas Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said that while both men served in Afghanistan in 2009, potential links between the two were still under investigation.
‘We don’t have any evidence that they were in the same province in Afghanistan, the same location or the same unit,’ McMahill said, via Fox News. ‘Again, something else that remains under investigation.’
Vegas bomber Matthew Livelsberger (left) and New Orleans attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar (right) both served at the same US military base in North Carolina
Initially reports pointed to a possible connection between the two, as both attackers were military men who rented cars on the Turo app before unleashing the carnage.
However the FBI has said veteran Jabbar likely acted alone when, inspired by ISIS, he drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans’s French Quarter.
Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, stressed that there was no indication of a connection between the New Orleans attack and the explosion Wednesday of a Tesla Cybertruck filled with explosives outside Trump’s Las Vegas hotel.
Officials are working to determine a possible motive for Livelsberger’s actions in Vegas.
