A man who was filmed allegedly stalking Elon Musk’s family has been identified as an Uber Eats worker who insists the billionaire is stalking him with 24-hour surveillance, a new report has revealed.
Brandon Collado is said to be the man behind the stalking, according to the Washington Post, after he was identified when Musk posted his balaclava-clad face to his 122 million followers Tuesday.
In the short video, the suspect confirmed to be Collado can be seen wearing a black hood driving a white Hyundai – and is confronted by a member of Elon Musk’s security team after jumping on the hood of a car Musk’s son X had been traveling in.
Collado has in turn made some unhinged comments – including that X’s mother Grimes was sending him ‘coded’ Instagram messages and that the billionaire CEO was in fact stalking him.
Musk, who was not present for the encounter, posted the footage to Twitter to ask if anyone recognized the man, before blaming the incident on a since-banned account that tracked his jet to an LA airport 23 hours prior to the unwanted interaction.
The incident transpired 26 miles from the airport, at a gas station in Pasadena.
In an interview with the Post, Collado confirmed that he has an interest in Musk’s family and was the masked man in footage – while making claims that he was being sent coded messages from the mother of Musk’s children, the pop star Grimes, through the latter’s Instagram posts.
Grimes, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher, lives in a house near the gas station where the altercation transpired.
Still, police in both LA and South Pasadena – the location of the incident – said there was ‘no evidence’ that Collado’s apparent tailing of the car linked to Musk was related to the jet-tracking account @elonjet, operated by 20-year-old college student Jack Sweeney, who runs several similar accounts.
Speaking to Post reporters Drew Harwell and Taylor Lorenz – who both were temporarily booted off Twitter this week reportedly after seeking comment for Musk on the incident – Collado claimed to be an Uber Eats Driver, and acknowledged he has an interest in both Musk, 51, and Boucher.
Boucher, 34, split with the billionaire just year after the birth of two-year-old X in 2021, but the pair have reportedly remained on good terms and co-parent their two kids.
According to the paper, Collado, in addition to the cryptic communication claims regarding Bouchard, claimed he had been in the musician’s neighborhood Tuesday to carry out Uber Eats orders.
However, he also told the publication that he believed that Musk – CEO of Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX – was monitoring his real-time location on a constant basis, and that the billionaire, at a whim, could enlist Uber Eats to block him from receiving delivery orders.
The outlet said it tracked down Collado using the video Musk posted to Twitter – in which a guard for the Musk family shared the license plate of the supposed stalker.
The Post then determined that Collado had rented the vehicle – a white Hyundai -through the car-sharing service Turo.
It was not immediately clear from the Post’s report if Collado lived anywhere near where the incident took place. He told the paper he had been visiting a friend in the area.
It was also reported that Grimes has been stalked recently by a man, whom she was awarded a restraining order against. Police are reportedly investigating whether or not Collado and that perpetrator are one and the same.
