Prosecutors in New York City charged accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione with homicide late Monday night time, in keeping with on-line courtroom data.
The 26-year-old was additionally charged with criminal possession of a weapon (loaded firearm), possession of a cast instrument and legal possession of a weapon (firearm silencer) within the brazen Dec. 4 capturing demise of Brian Thompson.
Thompson, 50, was shot from behind on the sidewalk outdoors a NYC Hilton resort earlier than a shareholder convention. He was appointed the CEO of the corporate in April 2021.
Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday after a five-day nationwide manhunt for Thompson’s killer.
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A nonetheless picture from video reveals Luigi Mangione, 26, being taken right into a Pennsylvania courthouse Monday night after being questioned in reference to the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Fox News)
Rookie Altoona police officer Tyler Frye took Mangione into custody after an worker and a buyer at a McDonald’s within the city thought he seemed just like the suspect on a wished poster and referred to as authorities.
When officers approached Mangione, who was sporting a masks and a beanie and dealing on a laptop computer behind the restaurant, and requested him to take away his face overlaying, they acknowledged him because the suspect wished for questioning in Thompson’s murder.
During that encounter, he allegedly handed over a pretend ID, gave a phony identify, and “turned quiet and began to shake” when requested if he’d just lately been to New York.
He was additionally allegedly in possession of writings criticizing the healthcare business and a ghost gun much like the one believed to have been used to kill Thompson.
Luigi Mangione was charged with a number of crimes, together with first-degree homicide, in New York City late Monday night time in reference to the capturing demise of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Altoona police initially took Mangione into custody on prices unrelated to Thompson’s homicide – possession of an unlicensed firearm, offering false identification to police and forgery.
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Mangione graduated prime of his class from the elite Gilman School in Baltimore, and even delivered the graduation speech at his 2016 commencement, in keeping with video of the ceremony.
“He appeared like a wise child, he was at all times doing the best factor, it appeared like,” a former classmate, who was shocked by the arrest, instructed Fox News Digital Monday. “Wasn’t loopy.”
He then graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s and grasp’s diploma in engineering and was a part of the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society for Electrical and Computer Engineering.
A photograph obtained by Fox News Digital reveals Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
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Mangione is anticipated to be extradited to New York as early as Tuesday.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Brooke Curto contributed to this report.
