Albany Law Student’s Nevada Substation Terror Plot Ends in Suicide

An Albany law student, 23-year-old Dawson Maloney, traveled about 2,500 miles to Nevada and rammed a rental car toward a Las Vegas-area power substation, injuring no one but dying from a self-inflicted gunshot. Investigators treat the incident as terrorism; Maloney was found with firearms, flame throwers, a hatchet, and armor in the car, and explosives-making materials plus extremist literature in a hotel room. The substation sustained no major damage, and motive remains unclear beyond prior threats and a note to his mother referring to himself as a “dead terrorist son.”