The man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan avenue was seen close to a Port Authority bus station 46 minutes after the surprising crime, New York police stated, earlier than he made his strategy to Pennsylvania, the place he was finally arrested.
Thompson was shot from behind outdoors the New York Hilton Midtown resort final Wednesday as he was on his strategy to UnitedHealth Group’s investor convention, officers have stated.
Police imagine the shooter left town, triggering an intense manhunt that led to the arrest of Luigi Mangione, 26, at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, days later. He evaded police for “a number of days” in Pennsylvania, authorities have stated, and his actual whereabouts between the morning of the taking pictures and his arrest stay a thriller.
Sunday, Nov. 24
10:11 p.m.: The individual arrives in New York City. He is seen on video getting off a bus on the Port Authority Bus Terminal at forty second Street and Eighth Avenue.
The bus originated in Atlanta however had round six or seven stops on the way in which, and investigators are not sure the place the person acquired on, Kenny stated.
After he arrives on the Port Authority, he takes a cab to the neighborhood of the Hilton resort and stays there for round half-hour.
Around 11 p.m.: He takes a cab to the hostel on Amsterdam Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Friday, Nov. 29
He was checked out of the hostel, however police imagine that was an administrative checkout as a result of he didn’t seem at a required time.
He checked again in, and police don’t imagine he stayed wherever else. He had two roommates whom he didn’t know. He saved his masks on all the time. The man paid in money however gave an ID.
“We imagine that the identification was fraudulent,” New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny stated.
Wednesday, Dec. 4
About 5:30 a.m.: He leaves the hostel. Police imagine he’s on a bicycle.
5:41 a.m.: Video has him at 54th Street and Sixth Avenue, on the Hilton.
“We have him wandering round, strolling within the neighborhood of the resort, strolling on 54th Street, strolling forwards and backwards,” Kenny stated.
The man enters a Starbucks in some unspecified time in the future and makes a purchase order.
6:44 a.m.: Thompson is killed. He is shot from behind and is then shot extra occasions.
Three items of ammunition recovered had “deny,” “delay” and “depose” written on them in marker, one on every, Kenny stated.
6:48 a.m.: The man is seen coming into Central Park at sixtieth Street.
6:56 a.m.: He is seen out of the park on Central Park West, nonetheless with the bicycle.
6:58 a.m.: He is at eighty fifth Street and Columbus Avenue, with the bicycle.
7 a.m.: He is northbound at 86th Street and not has the bicycle.
7:04 a.m.: He is seen getting right into a taxi northbound at 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
7:30 a.m.: He is seen within the neighborhood of the George Washington Bridge, close to a Port Authority bus station.
A mixed $60,000 reward is obtainable for data resulting in the arrest and conviction of the gunman.
Wednesday, Dec. 4-Monday, Dec. 9
Before his arrest in central Pennsylvania, Mangione hung out on each ends of the state, authorities stated.
“This suspect traveled between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, making stops in between,” Gov. Josh Shapiro stated Monday.
Shapiro and different state officers pleaded with the general public to assist them pinpoint Mangione’s whereabouts.
“We know that he’s been in Pennsylvania for a number of days, and so a part of that investigation may also concentrate on making an attempt to retrace his steps,” State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens stated at a information convention. “We’ve already recognized companies, for instance, that he frequented on this space and actions that he engaged in. That led us to extra proof, so all of that has turn out to be a mountain of proof that we have now to investigate.”
Monday, Dec. 9
9:14 a.m.: Altoona cops are sent to a McDonald’s for “stories of a male matching the outline of the United Healthcare CEO homicide suspect.”
A responding officer asks the suspect to decrease his masks and asks him whether or not he has been to New York City not too long ago. The man then “grew to become quiet and began to shake,” police stated.
“He grew to become visibly nervous, type of shaking at that query,” Altoona Police Chief Derek Swope stated. “He didn’t actually reply it immediately. So that assertion alone actually stated rather a lot. The suspect didn’t must say rather a lot after that query.”
The man is taken in for questioning.
Around 1:45 p.m.: New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch broadcasts that Mangione, then thought-about an individual of curiosity, has been arrested on firearms fees in Altoona.
Around 6:45 p.m.: After a preliminary arraignment in a Pennsylvania courtroom, Mangione is charged with forgery, possession of a firearm with no license, tampering with information or identification, possessing devices of a criminal offense and offering false identification to legislation enforcement authorities.
Around 10:45 p.m.: Online courtroom information present that Manhattan prosecutors formally charged Mangione with Thompson’s murder. He can also be charged with three counts of felony possession of a weapon and one rely of possession of a solid instrument.
Tuesday, Dec. 10
1:40 p.m. Mangione struggles with guards as they attempt to lead him into Blair County, Pennsylvania, courtroom.
“It’s fully out of contact and an insult to the intelligence of the American folks and their lived expertise,” he yells as he tussles with three guards who push him into the courthouse.
He is denied bail and vows to combat extradition to New York.
