UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder
Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, according to an online court docket.
Mangione, a 26-year-old from Maryland, was arrested by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, for gun charges ahead of him being charged by the New York Police Department on Monday.
The NYPD also charged Mangione for possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a forged instrument and criminal possession of a weapon, according to the docket.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office confirmed the charges.
The forged instrument is the fake NJ driver’s license he allegedly used to check into the hostel on the Upper West Side. Mangione remains in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections pending his extradition to New York.
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections released Mangione's mug shot on Monday evening.
In Pennyslvania, Mangione was charged with five crimes, including carrying a gun without a license, forgery, falsely identifying himself to authorities and possessing "instruments of crime," according to a criminal complaint.
The charging document alleges that Mangione lied about his identity to police and carried the ghost gun without a license.
When Altoona police asked him if he had ever been to New York City, Mangione started shaking, according to the charging document. He didn't answer the question directly, police said.
Mangione was on a Greyhound bus traveling through Altoona on Monday morning, sources said, when he got off and walked into a McDonald's where a witness recognized him from the images of the suspect circulated by police.
Mangione was sitting and eating when a McDonald's employee reported him, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference Monday afternoon.
"He matches the description of the person we are looking for," Adams said.
A customer thought Mangione looked suspiciously like the shooting suspect and alerted the employee, who called police, authorities said.
Adams said they believed we had a "strong person of interest" in the shooting death. Officials later confirmed during a news briefing in Altoona Monday night that Mangione is now a suspect in the killing.
Mangione had a ghost gun capable of firing a 9 mm round and a suppressor, police said. The gun and suppressor were "consistent with the weapon used in the murder," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. The gun "may have been made on a 3D printer," police said.
Mangione also had a three-page handwritten document "that speaks to his motivation and mindset," Tisch said.
"It does seem that he had some ill will toward corporate America," police said.
Authorities are going through his writings more thoroughly to understand his motive.
Mangione also had multiple fake IDs with him, including a fake New Jersey ID matching the ID the suspect used to check into a hostel in New York City before the shooting, Tisch said.
He was carrying a U.S. passport that identified him as Luigi Mangione, police said.