NEW YORK — The suspect within the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson final week has been charged with weapons, forgery and different prices in Pennsylvania after being arrested at a McDonald’s on Monday morning.
The 26-year-old, recognized by police as Luigi Nicholas Mangione, has been charged with 5 crimes, together with carrying a gun with out a license, forgery, falsely figuring out himself to authorities and possessing “devices of crime,” in keeping with a newly launched prison criticism.
At a press convention, officers introduced that the suspect within the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has been charged with weapons, forgery and different prices in Pennsylvania.
The charging doc alleges that Mangione lied about his identification to police and carried the ghost gun with out a license.
He started shaking when police requested if he had been in New York lately, courtroom information mentioned. He’s scheduled to go earlier than a decide in western Pennsylvania the place he was being held on gun prices.
Expenses might be filed towards the suspect within the murder as early as Monday or Tuesday, authorities mentioned. Investigators are working to find out whether or not anybody else was concerned in Thompson’s dying.
Mangione is being ordered to be held with out bail after his transient courtroom look.
Officers say the 26-year-old, from Maryland, additionally has ties to San Francisco and was a graduate of the College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His final recognized tackle was in Honolulu, Hawaii.
He was on a Greyhound bus touring by means of Altoona on Monday morning, sources mentioned, when he bought off and walked right into a McDonald’s the place a witness acknowledged him from the pictures of the suspect circulated by police.
Mangione was sitting and consuming when a McDonald’s worker reported him, and “due to that, we imagine we’ve a powerful particular person of curiosity,” New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams mentioned at a information convention Monday.
“He matches the outline of the particular person we’re in search of,” Adams mentioned.
That is a picture of the ghost gun recovered from Luigi Mangione in Altoona, PA, regulation enforcement sources informed ABC Information.
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A buyer thought Mangione regarded suspiciously just like the capturing suspect and alerted the worker, who known as police, authorities mentioned.
Adams mentioned they believed we had a “robust particular person of curiosity” within the capturing dying. Officers later confirmed throughout a information riefing in Altoona Monday evening that Mangione is now a suspect within the killing.
Mangione had a ghost gun able to firing a 9 mm spherical and a suppressor, police mentioned. The gun and suppressor had been “according to the weapon used within the homicide,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned. The gun “could have been made on a 3D
printer,” police mentioned.
Mangione additionally had a three-page handwritten doc “that speaks to his motivation and mindset,” Tisch mentioned.
“It does appear that he had some ailing will towards company America,” police mentioned.
Authorities are going by means of his writings extra completely to grasp his motive.
Mangione additionally had a number of pretend IDs with him, together with a pretend New Jersey ID matching the ID the suspect used to test right into a hostel in New York Metropolis earlier than the capturing, Tisch mentioned.
He was carrying a U.S. passport that recognized him as Luigi Mangione, police mentioned.
A picture of the pretend ID utilized by the Midtown Manhattan capturing suspect to test into an Higher West Aspect hostel.
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Police additionally recovered garments, together with a masks, “according to these worn by our wished particular person,” Tisch mentioned.
Police mentioned it seems Mangione acted alone and they didn’t have his identify prior to now.
Mangione is graduate of the College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, a college spokesperson informed WPVI-TV. He majored in laptop science and graduated in Might 2020.
Authorities mentioned they’re working to hint his actions from New York Metropolis to Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro mentioned he was touring between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with stops in between, together with in Altoona.
Police mentioned they’re working to develop a full sense of his timeline in Pennsylvania and the way lengthy he has been in Altoona.
Shapiro thanked the person at McDonald’s “who acted as a hero.”
“I wish to ask all of our fellow Pennsylvanians to reveal the identical kind of thoughtfulness and braveness and smarts as the person at McDonald’s did this morning and assist regulation enforcement right here in Pennsylvania as we proceed with our investigation,” Shapiro mentioned throughout a press briefing Monday night.
He additionally thanked the Altoona police who “acted swiftly” to apprehend Mangione.
Shapiro lamented how some on-line have celebrated quite than condemned Thompson’s killing.
“I perceive individuals have actual frustration with our well being care system,” Shapiro mentioned. “This killer just isn’t a hero. He shouldn’t be hailed.”
A UnitedHealth Group spokesperson mentioned in a press release Monday, “Our hope is that in the present day’s apprehension brings some reduction to Brian’s household, pals, colleagues and the numerous others affected by this unspeakable tragedy. We thank regulation enforcement and can proceed to work with them on this investigation.”
This undated photograph offered by UnitedHealth Group reveals UnitedHealthcare chief government officer Brian Thompson.
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On Wednesday morning, the masked gunman shot Thompson at point-blank vary exterior the New York Hilton Midtown, the place Thompson’s firm was holding an buyers convention.
Tisch described the assault as “brazen” and “focused.”
New video obtained by ABC Information reveals the killer ready for Thompson moments earlier than the capturing.
The video reveals others cross by, after which, when the masked gunman sees Thompson, he runs throughout the road and opens fireplace. The video, which has not beforehand been seen publicly, seems to help the police narrative that the shooter focused Thompson as a result of he loitered whereas others wandered by.
Proper after the capturing, the suspect fled by bike by means of Central Park to the Higher West Aspect. He then took a taxi to the Port Authority bus facility at 178th Road and boarded a bus out of New York Metropolis, in keeping with police.
An “huge quantity of forensic proof” has been recovered, in addition to “a whole bunch and a whole bunch and a whole bunch of hours” of video, police mentioned Monday.
On Sunday, members of the New York Police Division’s dive crew searched underwater in Central Park close to the Bethesda Fountain. Nothing was discovered, police mentioned.
The suspect’s backpack — with a jacket and Monopoly cash inside — was discovered close by in Central Park.
ABC Information’ Invoice Hutchinson, Jon Haworth, Ivan Pereira and David Brennan contributed to this report.
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