Cops Cast Doubt on Elon’s Claim That ‘Crazy Stalker’ Followed His Son

Police investigating Elon Musk’s declare that his two-year-old son, X Æ A-12, was adopted by a “crazy stalker” in Los Angeles due to public flight info have forged doubt on the billionaire’s model of what occurred.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the South Pasadena police stated they have been investigating a report of “an assault with a deadly weapon involving a vehicle” associated to the incident on Dec. 13. A member of Musk’s safety staff, known as a “suspect” within the launch, was concerned within the incident, in accordance with the cops. The safety guard claimed a 29-year-old Connecticut man adopted him right into a fuel station. Then the guard hit the person’s automobile, in accordance with the police assertion. Musk shared a video of the man in a automobile and the automobile’s license plate on Dec. 14, asking, “Anyone recognize this person or car?”

The cops haven’t talked about {that a} stalker was concerned in any respect and instructed that what occurred may have been a coincidence. The man who was struck recognized himself as Brandon Collado after the incident.

According to the South Pasadena police, Collado claims he had a verbal confrontation with one other driver on Dec. 13 after he pulled right into a fuel station car parking zone to make use of his cellphone. Collado instructed police that the member of Musk’s safety staff pulled up in entrance of him and blocked his path, accusing Collado of following him on the freeway.

Collado stated the safety guard drove his automobile into Collado’s because the guard left the station. Collado sustained no bodily accidents, police stated. Furthermore, whereas Musk acknowledged that his son, X, was within the automobile, police stated they might not verify this. Only Collado has filed a police report to date.

The police replace on the incident and investigation contradicts Musk’s model of what occurred on Dec. 13. In a tweet on Dec. 14, the Twitter CEO stated that Collado had adopted the automobile carrying X considering that Musk was in it. Musk then claimed that Collado blocked the automobile from shifting and climbed on the hood.

“At no time during the incident did the victim identify the suspect or indicate the altercation was anything more than coincidental,” South Pasadena police stated in a press release.

Yet, the police’s remark that the incident may have simply been a coincidence stands in stark distinction to a Sunday report from the Washington Post. Speaking to the Post, Collado stated that he had an curiosity in Musk and in Grimes, the mom of two of Musk’s youngsters, together with X. Grimes, whose actual identify is Claire Boucher, lives in a home close to the fuel station.

Collado instructed the Post that he was a driver for Uber Eats and was within the space to make deliveries and to go to a pal. He additionally stated that he believed Boucher was sending him secret messages by way of her Instagram posts, that Musk was monitoring his location in real-time, and that Musk may block him from receiving work via Uber Eats.

“I am the guy in this video,” Collado tweeted at Musk, as reported by the Post. “You have connections to me and have stalked me and my family for over a year.” Gizmodo was unable to seek out the tweet from Collado referenced by the Post.

Musk acknowledged that the incident involving his son had been facilitated by Jack Sweeney, the college scholar who runs the @ElonJet account on social media that tracks flights from his personal jet utilizing public info. However, the Post reported that the incident with Collado had taken place at a fuel station 26 miles away from the Los Angeles airport and 23 hours after @ElonJet posted the situation of Musk’s aircraft.

After the alleged incident involving his son, Musk banned Sweeney from Twitter and introduced a coverage change banning “real-time doxxing,” sharing of anybody’s location, as a result of it was a threat to bodily security. Musk then went on a blocking spree and suspended journalists on Twitter for sharing “basically assassination coordinates” for him and his household.

In Musk parlance, this apparently means tweeting about @ElonJet. The Twitter CEO has stated that he will likely be taking authorized motion towards Sweeney, @ElonJet’s operator, who nonetheless tracks his personal aircraft on different social media platforms.