An Ivy League graduate was taken into custody at a Pennsylvania McDonalds within the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson after a witness acknowledged him from photos of the suspect distributed by police, a supply with information of the investigation advised Fox News Digital.
The man, 26-year-old software program engineer Luigi Mangione, had the same gun and silencer to those used within the Wednesday shooting on his particular person, per the supply. He additionally carried 4 faux IDs, the New York Post reported – one in every of them matched the title on the ID used on the suspected gunman to examine into an Upper West Side hostel.
A senior law enforcement official advised the New York Times that Mangione listed grievances in opposition to well being care firms for placing income above care within the handwritten doc.
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Luigi Mangione pictured in a Facebook photograph. Mangione was taken into custody in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Monday morning in reference to the ambush homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. (Luigi Mangione/Facebook)
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Mangione was engaged on a laptop computer within the Altoona quick meals location – a police supply advised Fox News Digital surveillance footage caught the particular person of curiosity utilizing a laptop computer in a New York McDonald’s location earlier than the Wednesday capturing, and that “the eyebrows match[ed].”
A witness allegedly notified police after recognizing the person’s face from wished posters round 9:15 a.m., the police supply stated.
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Luigi Mangione was taken into custody at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania. (Luigi Mangione/Facebook)
Mangione was taken to Altoona Police Department, which didn’t return Fox News Digital’s requests for remark at press time. He was arrested on unrelated expenses for , the division wrote in a press launch.
NYPD officers arrived on the division a number of hours after Mangione was taken into custody.
Altoona is a metropolis positioned about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Mangione of Towsom, MD was valedictorian of his Baltimore prep college class in 2016, per the varsity’s newspaper, and graduated with a Master’s diploma in engineering and pc science from the University of Pennsylvania, in keeping with his LinkedIn.
An NYPD car is pictured exterior the Altoona Police Department in Pennsylvania on December 9. (Fox News Digital)
He is a software program developer who has labored for TrueCar Inc. for the final 4 years, per his LinkedIn.
Online exercise confirmed Mangione subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes and reveals his disdain for the state of well being care within the U.S., regulation enforcement sources advised the Post.
Mangione’s Goodreads account reveals that his literary pursuits vary from Socrates to Aldous Huxley to the writings of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
With the deal with @luigi.from.fiji, Mangione’s social media additionally signifies that he presently resides in Hawaii.
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Thompson was shot 3 times exterior the Hilton Midtown in New York City. The suspect within the capturing was final seen at Port Authority bus station in Upper Manhattan.
Mangione has not but been formally named by regulation enforcement as Thompson’s shooter.
