At a press briefing, Las Vegas Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren played video that allegedly shows a suspect committing an attack on a Tesla dealership.
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00:00And I'm here to provide you a significant update on the Tesla attack that took place early last week
00:06This event involved an attack on the Tesla collision and sales center on Tuesday, March 18th at approximately
00:130245 the suspect used a firearm and molotov cocktails to damage the center and
00:19Destroy multiple vehicles that were parked on site. You'll see to my left
00:24Some of that video that was taken from that night
00:28On the screen next to me is also
00:31What I want to highlight to each one of you is the very little information that my investigators and FBI agents had to work with
00:40from the initial aspect of this investigation
00:43there's a grainy photograph of the suspect's vehicle a
00:47nearly indescribable photo of the suspect himself and
00:51a couple of photographs of headlights and taillights of the vehicle
00:57That's what my investigators had to go on a week ago
01:00Part of this story that you're going to hear is
01:03How we arrived at our suspect being taken into custody with such little information. It's incredible work by everybody involved
01:12Despite that minimal information at the onset and thanks to the hard work and collaborative effort by the FBI
01:17Joint Terrorism Task Force the LVM PD counterterrorism section and all of our fusing center partners
01:25We were able to identify and arrest the suspect involved in this attack
01:29There's a couple social media photos that we were that have been circulated out there already
01:34The suspect's name is Paul Kim. K. I am he's an Asian male adult and he is 36 years of age
01:43I'm going to transition now to
01:46Assistant Sheriff Dory Corrin to explain to you exactly what happened over the course of this last week sheriff corn
01:55Thank You sheriff good morning, I'm assistant sheriff Dory corn at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
02:00I oversee our homeland security and investigative services group, which includes our counterterrorism section
02:04I have the opportunity here to provide the details of the investigation, but there's no doubt
02:08This was a collaborative effort involving multiple agencies
02:12Numerous actually hundreds of personnel that have been involved
02:15Some of the key people to include folks that are standing back here like lieutenant Rick Myers who oversees our counterterrorism section
02:20We're instrumental and because of all of their hard work. We were able to quickly
02:25Identify and apprehend the Tesla firebombing suspect in record-breaking time
02:30based on the updated evidence that we have
02:33We now have a better understanding a more comprehensive understanding of what actually happened
02:38And I'm going to provide some details as we walk through a little bit of a timeline on what occurred and then what we know
02:43about the suspect now
02:45So we'll begin with just talking about how the suspect arrived
02:47He arrived east of the location in a vehicle showed up in a black sedan
02:51Just parked east of the Tesla collision center. You can see on this video clip here
02:55We highlighted the area because it's at the top of your screen and you'll be able to see the arrival of the vehicle
02:59You'll be able to see the vehicle comes in
03:01originally driving westbound where you can see the headlights and then
03:04Turns around where you can see the taillights and he reverses back into where he parks
03:09the suspect then proceeds on foot and approaches the corner of the building as
03:14You've seen before and as you've probably heard and certainly as we're showing today
03:17He attempted to mask his identity by wearing black attire
03:21Concealing his face and wearing gloves
03:24The suspect then began shooting the surveillance cameras with what appeared to be a rifle
03:31You can see an image here of the suspect pointing the rifle towards a camera at least two surveillance cameras were damaged by gunfire
03:39and
03:39Then upon shooting the cameras the suspect proceeded to the front doors of the Tesla and he began spray-painting the words resist
03:47across the doors
03:50I'll let this video play because you'll get a better shot of the suspect
03:53You can see his description as he goes across the clear doors. They're
03:58committing his act of crime
04:00You
04:06Once he finishes spray-painting the words resist on the doors
04:10He then approaches multiple Tesla vehicles that were parked in the front of the center
04:15He proceeded to shoot into each vehicle and used a molotov cocktail to set the vehicles on fire
04:20We'll play a few video clips here to kind of show you his behavior. You can see him right there in the dark clothing
04:24He casually walks over to his first vehicle that's targeted
04:28He will soon put down his backpack onto the ground
04:33And then he transitions to the firearm and you'll see him shoot into the vehicle
04:44Once he shoots into the vehicle
04:45He ends up going back
04:46From the vehicle to the bag and then back to the car
04:50Presumably picking up his item that he used to be able to firebomb the vehicle
04:54We believe that was a molotov cocktail and you'll see in a moment here
04:57The vehicle will ignite and ultimately fully engulf causing severe damage
05:07The suspect then continues on to a second vehicle and you can see here he's on to the second target
05:11He'll do very similar behavior where he shoots into the vehicle
05:14He goes into the backpack retrieves an item and ultimately you'll notice here that he ends up getting the second vehicle on fire as well
05:24You
05:35From there he then proceeds to his third vehicle repeats the same type of activity activity one of the incendiary devices
05:42He was not able to ignite which is one of the devices that we were able to recover
05:45But ultimately five vehicles were damaged to include three of which were fully
05:50Destroyed you can see images of the vehicles here
05:55And you'll see here a drone video this is from our Skydio drone being able to provide an overview of the damage as well
06:05After this the suspect then proceeds and flees east gets in his vehicle and leaves the area
06:11As I mentioned earlier this case has been being it's been worked around the clock and Sheriff McMahill and Special Agent in Charge
06:17Spencer Evans have made it a top priority for our organization and
06:21Put a tremendous amount of workforce behind it to make sure that this was dealt with in a quick manner
06:29Because of that in eight days around the clock with our teams we were able to identify the suspects vehicles of black Hyundai Elantra
06:37You'll see a photo here
06:39But what's important to point out here is that this was achieved through an exhaustive review of surveillance material
06:44Analytical data and a canvas of over 700 locations across the valley
06:50Ultimately allowing us to piece together critical evidence with speed and precision
06:55You can see on this image here
06:57This is just one example of many where we're using the flock technologies to be able to identify
07:02the type of vehicle including very specific features of the vehicle that build up into
07:07Additional leads and ultimately get us to the point of identifying the suspect and his vehicle