UnitedHealthcare CEO killing: ‘Particular person of curiosity’ arrested Monday

ALTOONA, Penn. (FOX 9) – Authorities have arrested a “robust individual of curiosity” within the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

NYC officers recognized the individual of curiosity as Luigi Nicolas Mangione. He was taken into custody on Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Mangione was taken into custody about 9:15 a.m. after police bought a tip that he was consuming at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, police mentioned.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says the person was carrying a number of faux IDs. Police additionally discovered a gun, silencer, and masks that Tisch says are “constant” with the weapon authorities imagine was used within the capturing. Tisch says one faux ID matched the ID the shooter used to test right into a hostel.

The Related Press reviews Mangione will face prices of weapons, forgery and extra in Pennsylvania. He might be extradited to New York, the place he will even face prices associated to the killing of Thompson.

“I’ve no tolerance, nor ought to anybody, for one man, utilizing an unlawful ghost gun, to homicide somebody as a result of he thinks his opinion issues most,” Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro mentioned on Monday. “In a civil society, we’re all much less secure when ideologies interact in vigilante justice. In some darkish corners, this killer is being hailed as a hero. Hear me on this: He’s no hero. The true hero on this story is the one that referred to as 911 at McDonald’s this morning.”

Who’s Luigi Mangione?

Luigi Mangione was named by the NYPD as the person in custody within the CEO killing investigation.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny mentioned a McDonald’s worker noticed Mangione consuming and observed similarities between him and the alleged gunman. 

Authorities additionally mentioned Mangione has ties to Maryland, California and Hawaii, and appears to have an “ailing will towards company America.” Authorities imagine he went to varsity in Pennsylvania. 

Of their search, Pennsylvania officers additionally discovered a handwritten doc that Tisch says “speaks to each his motivation and mindset.” However, New York police say the doc is within the possession of the Altoona Police Division and investigators haven’t been in a position to evaluation it in full.

Current developments

Over the weekend, police launched new photographs of the gunman, displaying the masked man taking a cab in New York.

Police have mentioned they imagine the gunman arrived in New York from Atlanta on a Greyhound bus the day earlier than Thanksgiving. Additionally they imagine he has since fled town.

Monday marks the sixth day since Thompson was killed.

Background

Thompson was shot and killed close to W. 54th St. and sixth Avenue exterior the Hilton Resort in Manhattan round 6:45 a.m. on Dec. 4, 2024. Thompson was set to participate within the firm’s shareholder convention on the lodge.

Video exhibits the gunman firing pictures from behind Thompson, placing him a number of instances.

Authorities say the phrases “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” – a phrase critics use to explain insurance coverage firm ways – had been written on the ammo casings left behind on the scene. New York Metropolis police imagine the capturing was premeditated and focused.

Regardless of an intensive search and heavy media protection, thus far, police haven’t been in a position to make an arrest within the capturing.

Over the weekend, police launched a new batch of photographs displaying the masked gunman driving in a cab.

The award for info resulting in an arrest has additionally risen to $50,000.

On Friday, police reportedly discovered a particular backpack that the gunman was carrying. Inside, they discovered a jacket and Monopoly cash. In line with reviews, investigators had been additionally testing a discarded water bottle and protein bar wrapper for DNA.

Timeline of occasions

This is a timeline of occasions:

Nov. 24:

• 10:11 p.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 24: The suspected shooter arrives in New York Metropolis on a Greyhound bus on the Port Authority terminal on a bus that originated in Atlanta, Georgia. The bus made six or seven stops on the best way to New York. Police couldn’t instantly decide the place he bought on the bus. The person then took a taxi to the realm of New York Hilton Midtown and is there for a couple of half-hour.
• About 11 p.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 24: The person takes a taxi to the HI New York Metropolis Hostel at 891 Amsterdam Ave., the place he stays till the morning of the capturing. He presents an ID that police imagine to be faux. Two roommates in a shared room that had bunkbeds by no means noticed his face, police mentioned, as a result of he saved his masks on. When talking with an worker within the hostel foyer, he briefly pulled down his facemask and smiled — a second captured on surveillance photos which have been broadly circulated by police.

Nov. 29:

• Friday, Nov. 29: The person was checked out of the hostel, the place friends are mechanically checked out in the event that they don’t present on the desk by a sure time. Police don’t imagine he stayed someplace else and checked again into the identical hostel the subsequent day.

Dec. 4:

• About 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 4: The suspected shooter leaves the hostel properly earlier than daybreak.
• 5:41 a.m. on Dec. 4: He seems on video at 54th Avenue and Sixth Avenue strolling forwards and backwards within the space of the Hilton lodge the place United Healthcare’s mother or father firm, UnitedHealth Group, is holding its annual investor convention.

Police deduce that he rode a bicycle to the Hilton as a result of it took him such a short while to get there. “May he have stolen the bike? These are issues we’re nonetheless wanting into,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny mentioned.

Sooner or later, he went to a close-by Starbucks and bought a bottle of water and not less than one vitality bar earlier than returning to the lodge.

• 6:44 a.m. on Dec. 4: He shoots Thompson as the manager arrives alone, on foot, having walked from a lodge throughout the road. The person flees.
• 6:48 a.m. on Dec. 4: The person enters Central Park by bicycle on the sixtieth Avenue and Heart Drive entrance. It is within the park and away from safety cameras that police imagine he discarded a grey backpack.
• 6:56 a.m. on Dec. 4: He leaves the park at West 77th Avenue and Central Park West, nonetheless on the bicycle.
• 6:58 a.m. on Dec. 4: He passes one other digital camera on eighty fifth Avenue and Columbus Avenue, nonetheless on the bicycle.
• 7 a.m. on Dec. 4: He is at 86th Avenue, not with the bicycle.
• 7:04 a.m. on Dec. 4: He enters a taxi northbound at 86th Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue.
• 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 4: He is close to the George Washington Bridge and the bus terminal there. It gives commuter service to New Jersey and Greyhound routes to Philadelphia, Boston and Washington.

After the assault, investigators discover the phrases “deny,” “defend” and “depose,” written in everlasting marker on ammunition on the scene. The phrases mimic a phrase utilized by insurance coverage business critics.

Dec. 6:

Kenny and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch reveal that investigators imagine the gunman left New York Metropolis on a bus. Investigators say he entered the George Washington Bridge Bus Station however haven’t discovered video of him leaving or getting on a bus.

“It may probably be a disgruntled worker, or a disgruntled shopper,” Kenny says of a attainable motive in a briefing.

Police discovered what they mentioned was the person’s backpack. Its contents are usually not disclosed.

Dec. 7:

Police proceed to look Central Park; scuba divers are seen scouring a pond. The NYPD releases extra photographs displaying the suspected shooter subsequent to and within the again seat of a taxi. In each photos, he’s seen carrying a blue, medical-style face masks.

Regardless of recovering a fingerprint from the Starbucks buy and sending gadgets for DNA testing, police have but to publicly determine the suspect.

Dec. 8:

Scuba divers are once more seen at a Central Park pond. Police declined to touch upon the investigation.

Dec. 9:

Police questioned a person in Pennsylvania in connection to a gun that matched the gun used within the capturing. 

Ongoing affect

The capturing has additionally elevated issues for different healthcare firms.

Final week, Medica introduced it was closing its Minnesota headquarters out of an abundance of warning within the wake of the capturing. 

UnitedHealthcare has additionally put up a fence round its constructing. 

In a press release to FOX 9 on Monday, UCare, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit well being plan, additionally confirmed it was closing its workplaces for the week following a “regarding remark” in a telephone name.