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Police accidental they're investigating a car that rammed into a powerfulness substation adjacent Las Vegas, Nevada, connected Thursday arsenic a " terrorism-related event."
There's nary ongoing menace to the public, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said during a quality league Friday. The incidental was reported Thursday greeting astatine a powerfulness substation successful Boulder City, a historical municipality located astir 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
Police have besides released information video of the incident.
The operator of the Nissan Sentra was 23-year-old Dawson Maloney from Albany, New York, who had been reported missing, and died astatine the country from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, McMahill said.
The harm aft a car rammed into a powerfulness substation successful Boulder City, Nevada, connected Feb. 19, 2026.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
The antheral had communicated with household earlier the crash, referencing self-harm, and said helium was going to perpetrate an enactment that would spot him connected the news. He referred to himself arsenic a violent successful a connection sent to his mother, according to police.
Authorities recovered explosive materials and aggregate books "related to extremist ideologies" successful Maloney's edifice room, McMahill said. The books included ones astir right- and left-wing extremism, biology extremism, achromatic supremacy and anti-government ideology, helium said.
"These findings importantly elevate the seriousness of this incident," McMahill said.
Maloney is listed arsenic a pupil astatine Albany Law School successful the people of 2027. He was besides an honors pupil for aggregate semesters astatine Siena University, located successful New York.
"We are heartbroken to perceive of the tragic passing of 1 of our instrumentality students, Dawson Maloney, successful an off-campus incident," said Tom Torello, manager of communications and selling astatine Albany Law School, successful a statement.
Two shotguns, an battle rifle-style pistol, and occurrence throwers were recovered successful his rental car, McMahill said. Maloney was wearing what constabulary described arsenic "soft-body armor."
Authorities recovered a 3D printer and respective weapon components needed to assemble a firearm from an Albany residence.
Boulder City is location to the Hoover Dam, which is considered 1 of the country's modern civilian engineering wonders. The dam provides h2o to millions of radical and generates an mean of 4 cardinal kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric powerfulness each twelvemonth for Nevada, Arizona and California.
The powerfulness substation that was rammed is owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The installation works intimately with Hoover Dam and transfers powerfulness to the Los Angeles basin, McMahill said. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said successful a connection to The Associated Press that it is alert of the incident, and determination were nary impacts oregon disruptions to its operations.
Boulder City Police Chief Timothy Shea said determination is nary grounds of large harm to captious infrastructure and nary work disruptions.
A akin incidental occurred successful 2023 erstwhile a antheral rammed a car done a obstruction astatine a star powerfulness installation successful the godforsaken northeast of Las Vegas, mounting the car connected fire. The star powerfulness installation served Las Vegas Strip casinos. He was declared unfit for trial. That onslaught followed respective incidents and arrests involving electrical substations successful states including Washington, Oregon and North Carolina and concerns expressed by national officials astir the information of the nation's energy transmission network.
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