更新时间： 2026年2月20日 / 美国东部时间下午7:34 / CBS/美联社
警方表示，他们正在调查周四在内华达州拉斯维加斯附近一座变电站发生的汽车冲撞事件，称其为“与恐怖主义相关的事件”。官员们称，司机在现场被发现死于自杀性枪伤。
拉斯维加斯大都会警察局局长凯文·麦克马希尔周五在新闻发布会上表示，目前对公众没有持续威胁。这起事件于周四上午在博尔德市（Boulder City）的一座变电站被报告，博尔德市是一个历史悠久的小镇，位于拉斯维加斯东南约25英里处。
警方还公布了此次事件的安全录像。博尔德市警察局长蒂莫西·谢伊表示，没有证据表明关键基础设施受到重大破坏，也没有出现服务中断。
麦克马希尔说，肇事车辆是一辆日产Sentra，司机被确认为来自纽约州奥尔巴尼的23岁男子道森·马奥尼（Dawson Maloney），此前他被报告失踪。调查人员称，他在袭击前驾车穿越全国。
该男子在撞车之前曾与家人联系，提及自残，并表示他将实施一起会登上新闻的行为。警方称，他在给母亲的一条信息中称自己是恐怖分子。
麦克马希尔说，在他的租赁车内发现了两支霰弹枪、一把突击步枪式手枪和火焰喷射器，并且他穿着警方所说的“软质防弹衣”。
现场收集的证据引导他们找到了附近的一间酒店房间，在那里发现了爆炸物和多本“与极端主义意识形态相关”的书籍。他表示，这些书籍包括反政府右翼和左翼极端主义材料、环境极端主义、白人至上主义和反政府意识形态。
“这些发现显著提高了这起事件的严重性，”麦克马希尔说。
麦克马希尔描述这些书面材料是“各种激进文献的大杂烩。……这是我们在过去几年中看到的，有些人会将非常左翼的意识形态和非常右翼的意识形态结合起来……然后形成他们自己的、自己的意识形态，”他说。
当局从奥尔巴尼的一处住所中查获了一台3D打印机和几个组装枪支所需的枪支部件。
马奥尼被列为奥尔巴尼法学院2027届学生。他还曾在纽约州锡耶纳大学（Siena University）连续多个学期获得优等生称号。
奥尔巴尼法学院通讯与市场营销主任汤姆·托雷洛在一份声明中说：“我们对我们的一名法律学生道森·马奥尼在一次校外事件中不幸离世感到心碎。”
博尔德市是胡佛水坝的所在地，该水坝被认为是该国现代土木工程奇迹之一。该水坝为数百万人提供水源，并每年为内华达州、亚利桑那州和加利福尼亚州平均生产40亿千瓦时的水电。
麦克马希尔说，被冲撞的变电站由洛杉矶水电局（Los Angeles Department of Water and Power）所有。该设施与胡佛水坝紧密合作，并将电力输送到洛杉矶盆地。洛杉矶水电局在一份发给美联社的声明中表示，他们意识到这一事件，并且其运营未受到影响或中断。
2023年曾发生过一起类似事件，一名男子驾车冲破拉斯维加斯东北沙漠中一处太阳能发电设施的围栏，导致汽车起火。该太阳能发电设施为拉斯维加斯大道上的赌场提供电力。当时该男子被裁定不适合受审。在此之前，华盛顿、俄勒冈州和北卡罗来纳州等地发生了多起涉及变电站的事件和逮捕行动，联邦官员对美国电力传输网络的安全表示担忧。
2024年，一名与白人至上主义团体有联系的田纳西州男子被逮捕，联邦检察官指控他试图使用他认为装有爆炸物的无人机摧毁纳什维尔的一座发电站。
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Car-ramming incident at power substation near Las Vegas investigated as possible terrorism, police say
Updated on: February 20, 2026 / 7:34 PM EST / CBS/AP
Police say they’re investigating a car that rammed into a power substation near Las Vegas, Nevada, on Thursday as a “terrorism-related event.” The driver was found dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.
There’s no ongoing threat to the public, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said during a news conference Friday. The incident was reported Thursday morning at a power substation in Boulder City, a historic town located about 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
Police have also released security video of the incident. Boulder City Police Chief Timothy Shea said there is no evidence of major damage to critical infrastructure and no service disruptions.
The driver of the Nissan Sentra was identified as 23-year-old Dawson Maloney from Albany, New York, who had been reported missing, McMahill said. Investigators say he drove cross-country ahead of the attack.
The damage after a car rammed into a power substation in Boulder City, Nevada, on Feb. 19, 2026. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
The man had communicated with family before the crash, referencing self-harm, and said he was going to commit an act that would place him on the news. He referred to himself as a terrorist in a message sent to his mother, according to police.
Two shotguns, an assault rifle-style pistol and flame throwers were found in his rental car, McMahill said, and he was wearing what police described as “soft-body armor.”
Evidence gathered at the scene led them to a nearby hotel room where they found explosive materials and multiple books “related to extremist ideologies,” McMahill said. The books included anti-government right-wing and left-wing extremist material, environmental extremism, white supremacy and anti-government ideology, he said.
“These findings significantly elevate the seriousness of this incident,” McMahill said.
McMahill described the written materials as a “smorgasbord of radical literature. … This is something that we have seen in the last couple of years that individuals will take very left-wing ideology, very right-wing ideology, combine it … and then they come up with their own, their own ideology,” he said.
Authorities recovered a 3D printer and several gun components needed to assemble a firearm from an Albany residence.
Maloney is listed as a student at Albany Law School in the class of 2027. He was also an honors student for multiple semesters at Siena University, located in New York.
“We are heartbroken to hear of the tragic passing of one of our law students, Dawson Maloney, in an off-campus incident,” Tom Torello, director of communications and marketing at Albany Law School, said in a statement.
Boulder City is home to the Hoover Dam, which is considered one of the country’s modern civil engineering wonders. The dam provides water to millions of people and generates an average of 4 billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric power each year for Nevada, Arizona and California.
The power substation that was rammed is owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The facility works closely with Hoover Dam and transfers power to the Los Angeles basin, McMahill said. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said in a statement to The Associated Press that it is aware of the incident, and there were no impacts or disruptions to its operations.
A similar incident occurred in 2023 when a man rammed a car through a fence at a solar power facility in the desert northeast of Las Vegas, setting the car on fire. The solar power facility served Las Vegas Strip casinos. He was declared unfit for trial. That attack followed several incidents and arrests involving electrical substations in states including Washington, Oregon and North Carolina and concerns expressed by federal officials about the security of the nation’s electricity transmission network.
And in 2024, a Tennessee man with ties to white nationalist groups was arrested after federal prosecutors allege he tried to use what he thought was a drone packed with explosives to destroy a power station in Nashville.
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