Photo of Luigi Mangione taken in a holding cell on Monday courtesy of the Altoona Police Department.
The Altoona Police Department
New York prosecutors on Monday charged Ivy League grad Luigi Mangione with the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, court docket data present.
The cost got here hours after Mangione was arraigned in a Pennsylvania courtroom on gun and different fees associated to his arrest earlier Monday at a McDonald‘s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Mangione, 26, was charged by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office with homicide, legal possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a silencer, and possession of a solid instrument in state court docket in Manhattan on Monday evening, in response to a court docket file.
The University of Pennsylvania graduate is accused of fatally capturing Thompson final Wednesday morning outdoors the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Thompson, a 50-year-old father of two, was headed to an investor assembly for UnitedWell being Group, which owns his firm when he was shot by a masked gunman with a pistol that appeared to have a silencer connected.
UnitedHealthcare is the most important personal well being insurer within the United States, with greater than $200 billion in annual income.
Thompson’s household held a personal funeral for him in Minnesota earlier Monday, as Mangione was being taken into custody and questioned by Altoona police.
Police stated {that a} backpack belonging to Mangione was discovered to comprise a gun, silencer and a number of rounds of 9mm ammunition after he gave officers a pretend New Jersey ID that’s believed to be the identical one he used to test right into a Manhattan hostel in late November.
A McDonald’s employee had known as police after turning into suspicious of Mangione, who was carrying a masks whereas sitting at a desk within the restaurant.
Altoona police stated that when Mangione eliminated his masks at their request they instantly acknowledged him because the particular person sought by New York authorities in reference to Thompson’s killing.
Mangione, who comes from a rich Baltimore-area household, is being held with out bond at a jail in Pennsylvania on the fees in that state regarding the gun and phony IDs he was carrying.
Before his arrest in Altoon, police in New York didn’t know his id at the same time as they sought a “particular person of curiosity” who was seen on surveillance photographs touring to and from the scene of Thompson’s slaying.
Authorities consider the gunman fled New York inside hours of that capturing, presumably in a bus from the Port Authority terminal in Washington Heights, in northern Manhattan.
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