Luigi Mangione, 26, is a suspect in the New York City killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson on December 10, 2024, in Holliday, Pennsylvania Escorted after an extradition hearing in Fort Blair County Court.
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New York grand jury indicted Luigi Mangione accused of murder United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompsonthis Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.
Mangione is charged with one count of first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism and two counts of second-degree murder, including one count of homicide as a terrorist act.
He is also charged in an indictment in Manhattan Supreme Court with multiple counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
The Ivy League graduate, who comes from a prominent Baltimore-area family, faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to file documents seeking Mangione Extradition Her spokesperson told NBC News that she is from Pennsylvania, according to the indictment.
Mangione, 26, is accused of fatally shooting Thompson on Dec. 4 outside the Hilton Hotel in downtown Manhattan. Thompson, 50, was heading to the hotel for an investor day for his corporate parent, UnitedHealth Group.
“We have charged Luigi Mangione with assaulting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement. A brazen, targeted, fatal shooting.
“This type of premeditated, targeted gun violence cannot and will not be tolerated, and my office has been working around the clock to bring these defendants to justice,” Bragg said.
Mangione was arrested on December 9 after police received a call about a suspicious person at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He allegedly provided police with a fake New Jersey ID that was believed to be the same one he used when he checked into a Manhattan hotel in late November.
Police found a gun, a silencer and ammunition in his backpack. Police said the gun matched three shell casings found outside the Manhattan shooting scene, and Mangione’s fingerprints matched those found on water bottles and snack bars near the scene.
The district attorney’s office said shell casings found at the scene were marked “deny” and “discard,” while an unfired bullet was marked “delay.” These words match those used to describe strategies by health insurance companies and other insurance companies to deny customer claims.
Hours after Mangione’s arrest, Manhattan prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against him, charging him with second-degree murder, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a silencer and possession of a forged musical instrument.
A grand jury indictment filed Tuesday supersedes that complaint.
Mangione, who is being held without bail in a Pennsylvania jail on firearms and forgery charges, will appear in two separate hearings Thursday morning in Blair County Court.
The first meeting will be a preliminary hearing on state criminal charges. A second hearing, before a different judge, will deal with extradition proceedings.
On Friday, Mangione’s New York criminal defense attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, and her husband and law partner, Marc Agnifilo, He was visited in prison in Huntington.
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