A 26-year-old man recognized as a “robust individual of curiosity” within the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York was being questioned Monday by police in Pennsylvania after being discovered carrying a gun, a silencer, a masks, and faux identification playing cards, authorities stated.
The person, College of Pennsylvania graduate Luigi Mangione, was detained by police in Altoona after an worker of an area McDonald’s reported that he was performing suspiciously.
New York Police Division investigators confirmed up in Altoona hours later.
Luigi had in his possession a suspected “ghost gun,” probably made with a 3-D printer, that’s able to firing 9mm rounds, authorities stated.
Closed-circuit screenshots of an individual of curiosity within the UnitedHealthcare CEO killing.
Supply: NYPD
The gun is “constant” with the pistol armed with a silencer that was utilized by a masked gunman to fatally shoot Thompson, 50, on Wednesday morning exterior the Hilton Lodge in midtown Manhattan, the place the 50-year-old father of two was resulting from attend an investor assembly by his firm’s mum or dad, UnitedHealth Group.
Police credited their choice to publicly launch surveillance video of Thompson’s slaying, in addition to pictures of the beforehand unidentified individual of curiosity within the case with Wednesday’s tip about Mangione.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson (L) and individual of curiosity Luigi Mangione (R).
Supply: UnitedHealthcare (L) | NYPD (R)
Mangione, a Maryland native whose final identified handle is in Honolulu, was arrested on a gun cost however has not been charged in reference to Thompson’s killing.
Mangione additionally was carrying a number of pretend ID playing cards, together with one from New Jersey within the identify of “Mark Rosario.” That’s the identical identify from a pretend New Jersey ID utilized by a person who checked right into a Manhattan hostel greater than per week earlier than Thompson’s killing.
The gun discovered on the individual of curiosity in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Supply: Altoona P.D.
Police beforehand stated the then-unidentified man who had stayed on the hosel on the Higher West Facet was their individual of curiosity within the homicide investigation.
Mangione additionally was carrying a handwritten doc that implies “he has some ailing will towards company America” a prime police official stated.
“Presently, [Mangione] is believed to be our individual of curiosity within the brazen focused homicide of Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare,” New York Police Division Commissioner Jessica Tisch informed reporters.
Mangione obtained a bachelor’s of science in engineering, pc and knowledge science, in addition to a grasp of science for that focus from the College of Pennsylvania in 2020.
A replica of the pretend New Jersey ID discovered on the individual of curiosity.
Supply: Altoon P.D.
Earlier than his time at Penn, he graduated from the all-boys Gilman Faculty in Baltimore, the place he was a valedictorian, based on his LinkedIn profile.
Mangione is a cousin of Maryland statehouse delegate Nino Mangione, whose workplace was getting ready an announcement on his arrest.
A Stanford College spokesperson stated that an individual with Mangione’s identify was employed in 2019 as a head counselor by that college’s Pre-Collegiate Research program.
A picture of the person sought in connection to the investigation of the taking pictures dying of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth’s insurance coverage unit, is seen in an undated nonetheless picture from surveillance video taken in a taxi in New York Metropolis, launched on Dec. 8, 2024.
NYPD Information | By way of Reuters
Mangione’s detention in Pennsylvania got here on the identical day that Thompson’s funeral was set to happen in Minnesota.
Thompson’s firm, which is a division of UnitedHealth Group, is the biggest non-public payer of medical health insurance advantages within the U.S.
In an announcement Monday, UHG stated, “Our hope is that at present’s apprehension brings some reduction to Brian’s household, associates, colleagues and the numerous others affected by this unspeakable tragedy.”
“We thank legislation enforcement, and we are going to proceed to work with them on this investigation,” the corporate stated. “We ask that everybody respect the household’s privateness as they mourn.”
Investigators are wanting into how Mangione traveled to Altoona.
Police beforehand had stated that the one that shot Thompson fled the world on a motorcycle and pedaled into close by Central Park.
A New York Metropolis police officer walks by way of brush and foliage in Central Park close to sixty fourth Avenue and Central Park West in New York on Dec. 6, 2024, whereas looking for a backpack police imagine was dropped within the park by the individual suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024.
Ted Shaffrey | AP
The NYPD has stated the suspect was noticed exiting the park on foot about 20 blocks north of the taking pictures scene, and that he then took a taxi north to the neighborhood of Washington Heights, the place he was final seen coming into the Port Authority Bus Terminal there.
Police have additionally stated that the individual of curiosity is believed to have arrived in New York Metropolis on Nov. 24 on a bus from Atlanta, and that he instantly went to the Hilton that very same evening and spent a few half hour strolling across the streets close by.
— Tom Winter of NBC Information and Jonathan Dienst of WNBC contributed to this report.
