NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione was indicted Tuesday by the Manhattan district legal professional within the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Mangione was hit with a number of costs, together with one depend of homicide within the first diploma and two counts of homicide within the second diploma.
District Legal professional Alvin Bragg and New York Metropolis Police Commissioner Commissioner Jessica Tisch are holding a information convention at 3:30 p.m. you can watch within the dwell participant above.
“Such a premeditated, focused gun violence can not and won’t be tolerated, and my workplace has been working day in and time out to carry the defendant to justice” Bragg mentioned in an earlier assertion. “I need to lengthen my heartfelt prayers to Mr. Thompson’s family members as they proceed to grieve.
“This ongoing investigation is the product of an unimaginable partnership in any respect ranges with the NYPD, and I need to thank Commissioner Tisch and the prosecutors and detectives who labored collaboratively to apprehend Mr. Mangione. He’s now charged in a New York State Supreme Court docket indictment with three counts of homicide and faces a most penalty of life in jail with out parole,” he added.
The announcement from Bragg got here as Mangione awaits his subsequent courtroom look in Pennsylvania to face costs associated to his arrest on Dec. 9.
Mangione’s is now within the means of being extradited to New York. Bragg had mentioned late final week the 26-year-old suspect was contemplating waiving his extradition after beforehand preventing it.
Mangione is at present being held in a Pennsylvania state jail on costs associated to possession of a gun and a faux ID.
This is what the Manhattan DA’s workplace alleges
Bragg outlined the suspect’s actions earlier than and after the killing of Thompson, alleging:
- Mangione arrived on the Port Authority on a bus on Nov. 24, and checked into the HI New York Metropolis Hostel on the Higher West Aspect, the place he used a faux New Jersey ID underneath the identify Mark Rosario. The suspect prolonged his keep on the Hostel a number of occasions.
- Mangione left the Hostel at 5:34 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 4 and travelled to Midtown utilizing an e-bike. Between 5:52 a.m. and 6:45 a.m., he walked close to and across the Hilton Resort. At roughly 6:15 a.m., he bought a water bottle and granola bars on the Starbucks at 1290 Sixth Ave.
- Between roughly 6:38 a.m. and 6:44 a.m., Mangione stood in opposition to a wall on the north facet of West 54th Road throughout from the Hilton, totally masked along with his hood up.
- At 6:45 a.m., Mangione crossed the road to the Hilton Resort and, armed with a 9mm 3D-printed ghost gun geared up with a silencer, approached Thompson from behind and shot him as soon as within the again and as soon as within the leg.
- Mangione then fled northeast on 54th Road and took an e-bike uptown. He ultimately bought right into a taxi and was dropped off at West 178th Road and Amsterdam Avenue after which fled the state.
Luigi Mangione’s arrest in Pennsylvania
Mangione was arrested on Dec. 9 after a buyer at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, noticed him consuming breakfast and seen a resemblance to the individual being sought by police within the killing of Thompson in Manhattan 5 days earlier.
Police mentioned Mangione was discovered with a gun, masks and writings linking him to the ambush outdoors the New York Hilton Midtown, the place Thompson was arriving for his firm’s annual investor convention.
The New York Metropolis Police Division advised CBS Information that there are not any indications that Mangione was a UnitedHealthcare buyer.
Hours after Mangione’s arrest in Pennsylvania, Bragg’s workplace in Manhattan filed paperwork charging him with 5 counts, together with intentional homicide, legal possession of a weapon, and legal possession of a cast instrument.
Suspect provides high-power lawyer to protection
Mangione has added outstanding protection lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo to his authorized workforce. Agnifilo was a high-ranking deputy within the Manhattan DA’s workplace for years earlier than getting into non-public apply. Friedman Agnifilo’s legislation agency, Agnifilo Intrater LLP, confirmed in a press release to CBS Information on Saturday that she had been retained to characterize Mangione.
The agency mentioned Agnifilo, a longtime veteran of the Manhattan DA’s workplace, served because the second-in-command for seven years underneath DA Cyrus Vance, along with serving for 4 years because the Chief of the Workplace’s Trial Division.
