India, Oct. 21 -- Elon Musk recalled an incident involving a former Tesla employee who was fired after violently assaulting a woman for accidentally stepping on his prayer rug at the company's factory in Austin, Texas. The man, identified as Ndiaga Diagne, later killed three people in a mass shooting in the city in March 2026.

Musk recounted the incident in a recent interview with Walter Isaacson, uploaded on the YouTube channel 'The Builders'. The discussion began when Isaacson questioned Musk about the difference between judging people as individuals and making generalisations about entire groups.

"One of the things our country's founded on is individuals versus group identities. Do you worry that sometimes when you make sweeping gene...