The Tesla service center in Las Vegas joined multiple sites targeted in violent attacks against the electric vehicle company when authorities declared this incident domestic terrorism. Early Tuesday morning at 2:45 a.m. local time, multiple Tesla vehicles caught fire at the Tesla Collision Center when the assailant set two cars ablaze while damaging additional vehicles through gunfire.
Police officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Department discovered “RESIST” written in red paint across the facility doors upon their arrival at the location. The authorities report that the suspect fired three shots at the vehicles while starting the fire by using Molotov cocktails. The person is still at large while wearing black clothes. The investigation now includes the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force together with local police.
The facility attack represents a part of ongoing violence against Tesla locations nationwide since Elon Musk joined President Trump’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force. The wave of attacks against Tesla facilities in the United States has expanded to include multiple incidents such as Molotov cocktail assaults on dealerships and vandalism at charging stations and swastika markings on Tesla vehicles in San Diego County.
Musk described the attack on his X platform as “terrorism” during his condemnation of the incident. Musk declared through his platform that this violent conduct represents insane and profoundly wrong behavior. Tesla remains an electric car manufacturer alone, yet its team has earned no such malicious assaults.
Pam Bondi, who serves as Florida’s attorney general, declared that those responsible for the attacks will receive harsh legal punishment with a minimum sentence of five years. Former President Trump announced that attacks on Tesla facilities would receive domestic terrorism status while the government pledged to prosecute all participants in these planned assaults.
