UnitedHealthcare CEO Alleged Killer Arrested
University of Pennsylvania graduate Luigi Mangione was detained by Altoona police Wednesday morning after officers confronted him at a McDonald’s and found a pistol, a silencer and seven 9mm full metal jacket rounds, multiple fake IDs, and a U.S. passport in his backpack, authorities said.
The 26-year-old American identified as a “strong person of interest” in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York was denied bail as he was arraigned Wednesday evening in a Pennsylvania court on gun and forgery charges.
The gun and the silencer had been 3-D printed. “We didn’t even think twice about it,” Altoona Patrolman Tyler Frye said about he and his partner recognizing Mangione at McDonald’s from photos distributed by police in New York showing a person of interest in Thompson’s slaying. “We knew that was our guy.”
Additionally, according to New York police, the firearm is “consistent” with the silencer-equipped pistol that was used by a masked shooter to kill Thompson outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning.
Thompson, 50, was going to attend an investor meeting hosted by UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of his company, at the hotel. With $281 billion in sales and $16.4 billion in profits in 2023, Thompson’s company was the biggest private payer of health insurance benefits in the world’s largest economy
.Commissioner Jessica Tisch of the New York Police Department told reporters during a news conference in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon that “[Mangione] is believed to be our person of interest at this time in the brazen targeted murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare.”.
A senior NYPD official stated that Mangione was carrying a handwritten document that implied “he has some ill will toward corporate America.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will decide what charges to bring against Mangione and whether to charge him with Thompson’s murder. The prosecuting office for Mangione’s gun and forgery charges, Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks, stated that he anticipates Mangione being charged with homicide “very shortly.”
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