A person dressed in black shot and set fire to several Tesla vehicles at a repair facility in Las Vegas early Tuesday, police said, in what the FBI is investigating as a possible act of domestic terrorism.
Gunshots and flames erupted at the Tesla Collision Center, located at 6260 Badura Ave., at 2:45 a.m., in the latest violent incident involving property associated with Elon Musk.
Officials reported that, in addition to burning vehicles, the word “RESIST” was spray-painted on the doors of the facility. Three rounds were also fired at additional Teslas. The suspect, dressed in black clothing, is believed to have used Molotov cocktails and a firearm during the attack, according to police.
“This was a targeted attack against a Tesla facility, ” Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Departmentaccording to ABC News. “We do believe that it is isolated at this time. We do not believe there is further threat to the general public.”
No injuries were reported, and the fire department extinguished the fires before they could reach the vehicles’ batteries.
Musk responded to the Las Vegas incident on his X platform, calling it an act of “terrorism.”
“This level of violence is insane and deeply wrong,” Musk wrote in his social media post. “Tesla just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday called the violence against Tesla “nothing short of domestic terrorism.”
While there have been no reports of injuries amid the reports of vandalism, the incidents pose a potential financial problem for Tesla. The company faces declining sales for the first time because of increased competition and backlash over Musk’s contentious role in the Trump administration.
