UnitedHealthcare CEO killing: Luigi Mangione charged with homicide

ALTOONA, Penn. (FOX 9) – Authorities have arrested and charged a person within the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. 

Luigi Mangione, 26, is jailed in Pennsylvania after being arrested on Monday. He was initially charged in Pennsylvania with an unlicensed firearm, forgery and offering false ID to police. Prosecutors in New York added a cost of homicide, in line with the Related Press. He is anticipated to be extradited to New York.

Mangione’s arrest

A number of days after Thompson was gunned down on a avenue in New York Metropolis, Mangione was taken into custody about 9:15 a.m. ET on Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after police obtained a tip that he was consuming there. 

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned he was carrying a number of pretend IDs. Police additionally discovered a gun, silencer, and masks that Tisch says have been “constant” with the weapon authorities consider was used within the capturing. Tisch says one pretend ID matched the ID the shooter used to examine right into a hostel.

The Related Press reviews Mangione will face expenses of weapons, forgery and extra in Pennsylvania.

Manhattan prosecutors filed homicide and different expenses in opposition to Mangione late Monday, in line with an internet courtroom docket reviewed by AP.

“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 Gov. Josh Shapiro mentioned on Monday. “In a civil society, we’re all much less protected 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 actual hero on this story is the one who referred to as 911 at McDonald’s this morning.”

Who’s Luigi Mangione?

Mangione, 26, who’s an Ivy League graduate from a distinguished Maryland actual property household, was named by the NYPD as the person in custody within the CEO killing investigation.

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

Authorities additionally mentioned Mangione has ties to Maryland, California and Hawaii, and appears to have an “unwell will towards company America.” Authorities consider 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 overview it in full.

What occurred 

Thompson was shot and killed close to West 54th Road and sixth Avenue outdoors the Hilton Lodge in Manhattan round 6:45 a.m. ET on Dec. 4, 2024. Thompson was set to participate within the firm’s investor convention on the lodge.

Video exhibits the gunman firing photographs 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 techniques – have been written on the ammo casings left behind on the scene. New York Metropolis police consider the capturing was premeditated and focused.

Regardless of an intensive search and heavy media protection, police had not been in a position to make an arrest within the capturing.

Over the weekend, police launched a new batch of images displaying the masked gunman using in a cab and elevated the reward for data resulting in an arrest to $50,000, up from $10,000.

On Friday, police reportedly discovered a particular backpack that the gunman was sporting. Inside, they discovered a jacket and Monopoly cash. In response to reviews, investigators have 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 way in which to New York. Police couldn’t instantly decide the place he obtained on the bus. The person then took a taxi to the world of New York Hilton Midtown and is there for a few 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 consider to be pretend. 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 photographs which have been extensively circulated by police.

Nov. 29:

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

Dec. 4:

• About 5:30 a.m. ET on Dec. 4: The suspected shooter leaves the hostel nicely earlier than daybreak.
• 5:41 a.m. ET on Dec. 4: He seems on video at 54th Road and Sixth Avenue strolling forwards and backwards within the space of the Hilton lodge the place United Healthcare’s dad or mum 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 at the least one vitality bar earlier than returning to the lodge.

• 6:44 a.m. ET 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. ET on Dec. 4: The person enters Central Park by bicycle on the sixtieth Road and Heart Drive entrance. It is within the park and away from safety cameras that police consider he discarded a grey backpack.
• 6:56 a.m. ET on Dec. 4: He leaves the park at West 77th Road and Central Park West, nonetheless on the bicycle.
• 6:58 a.m. ET on Dec. 4: He passes one other digicam on eighty fifth Road and Columbus Avenue, nonetheless on the bicycle.
• 7 a.m. ET on Dec. 4: He is at 86th Road, not with the bicycle.
• 7:04 a.m. ET on Dec. 4: He enters a taxi northbound at 86th Road and Amsterdam Avenue.
• 7:30 a.m. ET on Dec. 4: He is close to the George Washington Bridge and the bus terminal there. It presents 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 consider 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 might probably be a disgruntled worker, or a disgruntled consumer,” Kenny says of a doable motive in a briefing.

Police discovered what they mentioned was the person’s backpack. Its contents aren’t disclosed.

Dec. 7:

Police proceed to go looking Central Park; scuba divers are seen scouring a pond. The NYPD releases further images displaying the suspected shooter subsequent to and within the again seat of a taxi. In each photographs, he’s seen sporting 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 establish the suspect.

Dec. 8:

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

Dec. 9:

• 9:15 a.m. ET on Dec. 9: Police take Luigi Mangione into custody for questioning at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after an worker seen similarities between him and the alleged gunman. On Monday afternoon, NYPD authorities introduced Mangione was a “robust particular person of curiosity” within the case, and he was charged later that day in Pennsylvania with weapons and pretend ID expenses after which with a homicide cost in New York.

Ongoing affect

The capturing has additionally elevated considerations 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 an announcement to FOX 9 on Monday, UCare, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit well being plan, additionally confirmed it was closing its places of work for the week following a “regarding remark” in a cellphone name.