The gun seized during Luigi Mangione’s arrest in Pennsylvania this week matches the shell casings found at the scene of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder, police say.
Fingerprints taken from Mangione also match prints on a water bottle and protein bar wrapper found near the scene of the Midtown homicide, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced at a press conference Wednesday.
The lab results mark the first forensic tie between Mangione and the crime scene.
The discoveries come after Mangione’s lawyer, Thomas Dickey, told reporters that he hasn’t “seen any evidence that he’s the shooter.” His client faced an extradition hearing Tuesday in Pennsylvania after New York prosecutors charged him with second-degree murder in connection with last week’s brazen killing in Midtown Manhattan.
“It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience!” Mangione yelled as he was escorted in handcuffs into the Blair County Courthouse. The 26-year-old was denied bail and will remain in a Pennsylvania jail while he fights extradition to New York.
Authorities are also investigating Mangione’s notebook that laid out his plot to “wack” Thompson at his “parasitic bean-counter convention,” according to The New York Times.
Key Points
- Gun found on suspect when he was arrested match shell casings at the crime scene, NYPD says
- Suspect was carrying a spiral notebook and manifesto at time of arrest
- Reddit posts reveal Mangione’s anger at healthcare system
- Luigi Mangione mused bombing Manhattan in chilling ‘to-do list’
Reddit posts reveal Mangione’s anger at healthcare system
01:45
Josh Marcus
Alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO gunman Luigi Mangione repeatedly spoke of his anger at the healthcare system on Reddit, according to archived post.
Mangione, who had a spinal fusion surgery in 2023, complained on the site that medical authorities didn’t take people’s pain seriously, The Washington Post reports.
“Tell them you are ‘unable to work’ / do your job,” he wrote in one post. “We live in a capitalist society. I’ve found that the medical industry responds to these key words far more urgently than you describing unbearable pain and how it’s impacting your quality of life.”
In another post, he told readers they could fake difficulty using their feet to convince doctors to give them back surgery.
“This is the absolute nuclear option, but there comes a point where it’s just ridiculous that people won’t operate on your broken spine,” he said.
Luigi Mangione’s lawyer won’t say who hired him
01:25
Josh Marcus
The Luigi Mangione case keeps getting stranger.
The alleged gunman who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has retained a lawyer, but the attorney, Thomas Dickey, has declined to say who hired him.
“Yeah, I’m not gonna comment,” he told CNN.
Nationwide fundraisers have sought to funnel funds for Mangione’s legal defense.
Here’s more on Dickey.
‘The Daily Show’ mocks conservative for criticizing Luigi Mangione but praising Kyle Rittenhouse
01:05
Josh Marcus
“The Daily Show” is mocking conservatives for criticizing Luigi Mangione for his alleged vigilante-style shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, despite the same figures previously praising armed civilian Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two men during unrest after the police shooting of a Black man.
Fox News talking about Luigi Mangione, but make the footage Kyle Rittenhouse pic.twitter.com/n3jtEvMgV6
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) December 11, 2024
AOC condemns ‘vigilantism’ but says UnitedHealthcare shooting is a ‘wake up call’
00:46
Josh Marcus
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez struck a measured tone on Wednesday when asked about the recent shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, warning of the “chaos” of vigilante-style attacks but saying the shooting reflected widespread disatisfaction over the state of U.S. healthcare.
“Of course, we don’t want to see the chaos that vigilantism presents,” she told Business Insider on Wednesday. “And we also don’t want to see the extreme suffering that millions of Americans confront when your life changes overnight from a horrific diagnosis, and people are led to just some of the worst, not just health events, but the worst financial events of their and their family’s lives.”
The New York Democrat added that she personally didn’t have consistent healthcare until she was elected to Congress, and that shooting is a “wake up call” for people’s widespread suffering in the U.S. health system.
Dog walker finds bag of bullets in Central Park unrelated to UnitedHealthcare shooting
00:06
Josh Marcus
A person walking their dog in New York City’s Central Park on Tuesday found a bag of bullets in the bushes, but the ammo does not appear linked to the recent UnitedHealthcare shooting, according to Fox 5 New York, citing unnamed sources.
The bag initially piqued their interest because alleged gunman Luigi Mangione fled through police after the shooting last week, according to police.
Leaked memo praises slain UnitedHealthcare CEO as ‘one of the good guys'
Wednesday 11 December 2024 23:40
Josh Marcus
UnitedHealth executives are reportedly rallying the company after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson has revealed widespread animosity towards the healthcare industry.
“Never forget: What you do matters. It really, really matters,” CEO Andrew Witty reportedly told staff, according to a leaked memo obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein. “There is no higher calling than helping people. Nothing more vital to the human condition than health care. And while these days have been dark, our patients, members, customers are sending us light — thousands of phone calls, texts, comments and emails offering condolences, gratitude and encouragement are pouring in.”
Supporters use alternative crowdfunding site to support Luigi Mangione legal defense
Wednesday 11 December 2024 23:26
Josh Marcus
Mainstream crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has repeatedly shut down fundraisers seeking to send money for Luigi Mangione’s legal defense, but that hasn’t stopped supporters of the alleged killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO to pool funds elsewhere.
A group calling itself the December 4th Legal Committee has raised over $35,000 on Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, a platform that’s previously been used to raise money for January 6 rioters, Kyle Rittenhouse, and Daniel Penny, who was recently acquitted in the 2023 Manhattan choking death of Jordan Neely.
“We are not here to celebrate violence, but we do believe in the constitutional right of fair legal representation,” the group wrote of its efforts on the fundraiser page.
Penn professor retracts statements appearing to praise Mangione
Wednesday 11 December 2024 22:00
Kelly Rissman
A professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League institution UnitedHealthcare shooting suspect Luigi Mangione attended, is retracting her social media posts that appeared to praise him.
Julia Alekseyeva, an Assistant Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies, posted a TikTok video on Monday night swaying her left index finger back and forth to the tune of “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from the musical Les Misérables.
She wrote: “Have never been prouder to be a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.” The post appeared to refer to Mangione’s prior attendance at the university, where he obtained undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. He also worked as a teaching assistant at the university after graduation.
Michelle Del Rey has the full story.
WATCH: Three cryptic words were carved into bullets used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Wednesday 11 December 2024 21:45
Kelly Rissman
Investigators announced finding their first forensic ties between Luigi Mangione and the Midtown murder scene.
Shell casings — marked with the words “deny,” “defend,” “depose” — that were found at the crime scene matched the gun that was seized during the suspect’s arrest Monday, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Wednesday.
Lab results also showed that Mangione’s fingerprints matched the prints on a watter bottle and a Kind bar wrapper near the scene, she said.
Mangione shouts about ‘insult to the American people’ on his way into extradition hearing
Wednesday 11 December 2024 21:30
Kelly Rissman
Luigi Mangione struggled with police and shouted about an “insult to the American people” as officers forcibly led him into a Pennsylvania courtroom for an extradition hearing Tuesday afternoon.
The 26-year-old, who has been charged with second-degree murder in connection to last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was denied bail at the hearing and is fighting extradition back to New York.
He appeared at Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg in the afternoon in handcuffs and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit.
“It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience!” Mangione shouted after stepping out of a police car.
He was flanked by several officers who pushed him towards the door.
Rhian Lubin has the full story.
‘It’s a dirty, dirty business’: Joe Rogan discusses public perception of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder
Wednesday 11 December 2024 21:15
Kelly Rissman
Joe Rogan chalked up the country’s mixed reactions to the fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO to the “dirty business” of health insurance.
Rogan and his guests, filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary, discussed the December 4 death of Brian Thompson on a Midtown Manhattan street on Tuesday’s episode of the mega-popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
The podcaster and his guests predicted there wouldn’t be much sympathy for the 50-year-old insurance executive due to the state of health insurance in the U.S.
“I don’t think anybody is going to be crying too hard over” Thompson’s death, Avary said.
“Maybe his family, but that’s about it,” Rogan replied. “It’s a dirty, dirty business. The business of insurance is f***ing gross. It’s gross, especially healthcare insurance.”
Read the full story.
What did his notebook say?
Wednesday 11 December 2024 21:00
Kelly Rissman
Police recovered a notebook — along with the ghost gun, silencer, and fake ID cards — when they apprehended the 26-year-old Monday.
The spiral notebook contained a to-do list outlining tasks to be completed to carry out the killing, as well as notes that justified those plans, CNN previously reported.
One passage, obtained by the New York Times, read: “What do you do? You wack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents.”
Mangione is accused of fatally shooting Thompson on his way to speak at the company’s annual investor conference.
Authorities also recovered a 262-word, three-page handwritten manifesto, which references the notebook, according to the Times.
After analyzing the manifesto, investigators believed Thompson’s death to be a “symbolic takedown,” an internal report obtained by the outlet stated. The suspect “likely views himself as a hero of sorts who has finally decided to act upon such injustices.”
The report also noted concern that others might see him as a “martyr and an example to follow.”
WATCH: Brian Thompson shooting suspect Luigi Mangione's valedictorian speech
Wednesday 11 December 2024 20:45
Kelly Rissman
ICYMI: GoFundMe takes down fundraisers in support of murder suspect
Wednesday 11 December 2024 20:30
Kelly Rissman
GoFundMe has shut down multiple pages created to support the accused murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
A masked man fatally shot Thompson in Midtown Manhattan on December 4 before escaping out of the city, leading to a six-day manhunt for the gunman, which ended Thursday with the arrest of 26-year-old Luigi Mangione. He has been charged with murder.
The insurance executive’s death captivated the nation and sparked serious conversations about the state of health care in the U.S., with some even celebrating the execution as many shared stories of being denied coverage for care. Since his arrest, GoFundMe pages have cropped up in support of Mangione, and the fundraising site has been removing them. It’s not immediately clear how many pages the site took down.
Read the full story.
‘He had a lot of things going for him,’ Mangione’s high school classmate says
Wednesday 11 December 2024 20:15
Kelly Rissman
A high school classmate of the suspect under arrest for fatally gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week said the news “came out of nowhere,” and described the situation as “just, really surreal.”
“He had a lot of things going for him,” Ellison Jordan, who graduated from the Gilman School alongside 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, told The Independent. “He was always cool people.”
Jordan attended Gilman, a prestigious all-boys prep school in Baltimore, with Mangione, and found him to be “a smart dude,” and “a regular guy,” he said on Tuesday.
“I’m being sensitive to Luigi, because I went to school with him,” Jordan, who has not spoken to the media previously about Mangione, went on. “I hope he didn’t do it. I’m praying he didn’t do it. It’s still ‘allegedly.’ It’s really shocking.”
Justin Rohrlich has the exclusive story.
Who is Thomas Dickey?
Wednesday 11 December 2024 20:00
Kelly Rissman
Luigi Mangione’s lawyer is a seasoned trial attorney based in Pennsylvania with more than 40 years of experience.
Thomas Dickey was brought onto the case on Tuesday, one day after his client was arrested in a McDonald’s in the town of Altoona. The 26-year-old now faces a second-degree murder charge in connection to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by New York prosecutors who are seeking his extradition to the state.
Dickey said he expects his client will plead not guilty.
The lawyer, who claims to be “one of the few death-penalty qualified attorneys” in Pennsylvania, said on Tuesday night that it was “concerning” his client had been denied bail at an extradition hearing at Blair County courthouse earlier in the day.
Rhian Lubin has the full story.
What have Mangione’s friends and family said after his arrest?
Wednesday 11 December 2024 19:52
Kelly Rissman
In the days since the 26-year-old was arrested in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, comments from friends and family have painted a picture of the murder suspect.
Those close to Mangione seem “shocked” by the events that have unraveled in the past week.
“Unfortunately, we cannot comment on news reports regarding Luigi Mangione,” said the family in a statement posted on X by Luigi’s cousin Nino Mangione, a Republican member of the lower house of Maryland’s state legislature. “We only know what we have read in the media.”
One former Penn classmate told The Independent that she couldn’t believe the news.
“It’s really shocking…He never gave off a weird, creepy, Unabomber vibe” in college, she said. He didn’t post passionately about social causes in undergrad, so “I guess something really took a turn,” she added.
Some of his friends have discussed how Mangione suffered from debilitating back pain.
“He said his lower vertebrae were almost like a half-inch off, and I think it pinched a nerve. Sometimes he’d be doing well and other times not,” one friend told the New York Times. “He knew that dating and being physically intimate with his back condition wasn’t possible. I remember him telling me that, and my heart just breaks.”
ICYMI: Song about Brian Thompson killing goes viral
Wednesday 11 December 2024 19:30
Kelly Rissman
What charges does Luigi Mangione face?
Wednesday 11 December 2024 19:15
Kelly Rissman
After his arrest, Mangione was charged and arraigned on five Pennsylvania offenses including forgery, falsely identifying himself, and carrying a gun without a license.
On Monday, he made a brief appearance at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg where he was informed of the charges against him and said he understood.
The suspect returned to the Blair County Courthouse as he faced an extradition hearing Tuesday after New York prosecutors charged him with second-degree murder in connection with last week’s brazen killing of Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.
“It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience,” Mangione yelled as he was escorted in handcuffs into the courthouse.
Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks said both Pennsylvania and New York’s governors remain confident they can get the warrant to transfer him back to the Empire State before the 30-day deadline.
Mangione was denied bail, is fighting extradition, and will remain in a Pennsylvania jail. He is set to plead not guilty to all charges, his attorney Thomas Dickey told NewsNation on Tuesday.
Read everything we know about Luigi Mangione here.
NYPD unveils forensic ties to Mangione
Wednesday 11 December 2024 19:02
Kelly Rissman
The gun found on the murder suspect is a positive match with the shell casings found at the crime scene, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Wednesday.
“We got the gun in question back from Pennsylvania... we were able to match that gun to the three shell casings found in Midtown at the scene of the homicide,” she said.
Lab results also showed a match between Mangione’s fingerprints with prints found on both the water bottle and the Kind bar near the scene of the homicide in Midtown, Tisch said.
The very online ‘gray tribe’ philosophy of UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect
Wednesday 11 December 2024 19:00
Io Dodds
The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson followed Richard Dawkins and RFK Jr, tweeted about neuroscience and Japanese birth rates, and shared posts about how to think more logically.
The 26-year-old was fascinated by AI and decision theory; pro-technology but anti-smartphones; secular and scientific in his outlook, but in favour of religion on Darwinian grounds.
What does it all mean? Luigi Mangione’s worldview might not be familiar to most Americans, and it’s certainly not a common one among politically-motivated killers. Nevertheless, his social media posts, and the users he engaged with, mark him out indelibly as a very specific type of online person – one that’s intimately familiar to me.
”Increasingly looks like we’ve got our first gray tribe shooter, and boy howdy is the media not ready for that,” wrote the journalist and extremism expert Robert Evans, who analyzed Mangione’s online life earlier this week.
There’s no single accepted name for this loose, extremely online subculture of bloggers, philosophers, shitposters and Silicon Valley coders. “The gray tribe” is one term; ”the rationalist movement” is another.
Read the full story.
In photos: The manhunt for the murder suspect, from a NYC hostel to a Pennsylvania McDonald’s
Wednesday 11 December 2024 18:45
Kelly Rissman
Joe Rogan discusses the public’s reaction to Brian Thompson’s murder
Wednesday 11 December 2024 18:30
Kelly Rissman
Joe Rogan chalked up the country’s mixed reactions to the fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO to the “dirty business” of health insurance.
Rogan and his guests, filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary, discussed the December 4 death of Brian Thompson on a Midtown Manhattan street on Tuesday’s episode of the mega-popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
The podcaster and his guests predicted there wouldn’t be much sympathy for the 50-year-old insurance executive due to the state of health insurance in the U.S.
“I don’t think anybody is going to be crying too hard over” Thompson’s death, Avary said.
“Maybe his family, but that’s about it,” Rogan replied. “It’s a dirty, dirty business. The business of insurance is f***ing gross. It’s gross, especially healthcare insurance.”
Read the full story.
ICYMI: McDonald’s customer speaks out about moment he spotted Luigi Mangione in fast food joint
Wednesday 11 December 2024 18:15
Kelly Rissman
Suspect was carrying a spiral notebook and manifesto at time of arrest
Wednesday 11 December 2024 17:58
Kelly Rissman
Along with numerous fake ID cards, a ghost gun, a silencer, and a manifesto, police recovered a spiral notebook from the suspect’s belongings when he was arrested.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania after an employee recognized him from the photos widely circulated by the NYPD.
A NYPD intelligence report, obtained by CNN, detailed that the notebook included a to-do list of tasks to be completed to carry out the killing along with “notes justifying those plans,” the outlet wrote.
Although he contemplated bombing Manhattan, he decided against the idea over concerns this method “could kill innocents,” a law enforcement source told CNN.
“He appeared to view the targeted killing of the company’s highest-ranking representative as a symbolic takedown and a direct challenge to its alleged corruption and ‘power games,’ asserting in his note he is the ‘first to face it with such brutal honesty,’” says the NYPD report.
He also mentioned Ted Kaczynski, also known as the ‘Unabomber.’
Officials also uncovered a three-page, 262-word handwritten manifesto in his belongings, which police describe as a “claim of responsibility” for the shooting. NYPD Chief Detective Joe Kenny told Fox News that he believes the handwritten pages express “some ill will toward corporate America.”
Suspect’s green jacket is in ‘high demand’: report
Wednesday 11 December 2024 17:35
Kelly Rissman
People are trying to get their hands on a green jacket that closely resembles one worn by the suspected shooter.
Footage captured the suspect — and his jacket — on his journey across Manhattan in the wake of the fatal shooting in Midtown Manhattan on December 4.
Stills of the footage has circulated the internet for days as the manhunt for the suspect was underway.
Now, the green jacket is in “high demand,” according to Complex.
A similar jacket is being sold at Macy’s, where more than 700 jackets were bought in the last 48 hours, Complex reported.
The influx may have stemmed from a popular Reddit post from late last week that linked to a Levi’s Sherpa Lined Two Pocket Hooded Trucker Jacket sold at Macy’s.
The seven days since United Healthcare CEO’s shocking execution
Wednesday 11 December 2024 17:25
James Liddell
The events of the last seven days read like something straight out of a TV crime series.
It all began just before dawn last Wednesday on the streets of Midtown Manhattan, where a hooded gunman staked out his victim, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was due to speak at the company’s annual investor conference.
What ensued was a dramatic six-day manhunt for the 26-year-old suspect, Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League grad and member of a prominent Italian family from Baltimore, who was finally caught in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s eating hash browns after police were tipped off by an employee.
Rhian Lubin has the story.
Clerk greeted ‘cagey’ man at hotel front desk – hours later Luigi Mangione was arrested
Wednesday 11 December 2024 17:05
James Liddell
A Pennsylvania hotel clerk said that Luigi Mangione appeared “cagey” upon attempting to book a room at his lodgings on Monday morning before the shooting suspect’s arrest.
John Kuklis of the Horseshoe Curve Lodge in Altoona greeted a masked Mangione at the front desk, but turned him away due to a lack of clean rooms, he told ABC News.
The hotel is roughly a 17-minute walk from the McDonald’s where Mangione was arrested on Monday.
“He basically just walked in kind of cagey, just looking around, making sure he wasn’t being watched, asked if he could get a room here,” he said. “I told him that he wouldn’t be able to get one right now, that our housekeeper hadn’t cleaned the rooms yet, that he had to come back at one o’clock.”
Kuklis said he told Mangione that he wasn’t allowed to wait at the hotel, which lead to the suspect leaving without uttering a word or removing his mask.
Logan Township police officers called Kulis asking if Mangione had stayed at the hotel.
After arriving at the premises and surveilling his security footage, Kuklis said they told him: “‘Yeah, that’s him.’”
Mangione’s fingerprints apparently gleaned from Starbucks water bottle and cell phone
Wednesday 11 December 2024 16:45
James Liddell
Luigi Mangione’s fingerprints were allegedly gleaned from a Starbucks water bottle and cellphone the shooting suspect dropped near the crime scene, according to law enforcement sources.
Police initially said the prints recovered from the items the day of Brian Thompson’s fatal shooting in Midtown Manhattan were smudged.
But two sources told ABC News that they appear to match the prints taken after Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
ICYMI: Luigi Mangione’s notebook reveals chilling alleged to do list and New York bomb plans
Wednesday 11 December 2024 16:25
James Liddell
Luigi Mangione allegedly laid out his plot to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a spiral notebook, including a chilling “to-do list” and plans considering using a bomb in the Manhattan attack.
The notebook was found alongside a 262-page manifesto, a ghost gun, silencer and false ID cards in the shooting suspect’s possession at the time of his arrest at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Monday, according to CNN.
Inside the notebook was a to-do list outlining tasks to be completed to carry out the killing, as well as notes that justified those plans, a source told the network.
Read the full story below.
Lawyer says 'no evidence' links gun found on Luigi Mangione to CEO shooting
Wednesday 11 December 2024 16:05
James Liddell
'Delay, Deny, Defend’ becomes Amazon bestseller after words carved into bullets left at crime scene
Wednesday 11 December 2024 15:44
Kelly Rissman
The 2010 book Delay, Deny, Defend: Why insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it has become a bestseller on Amazon in the week since the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The book’s title is reminiscent of the three words carved into the bullet casings — “deny,” “defend,” “depose” — found on the Midtown Manhattan street where 50-year-old Thompson was fatally shot on December 4. Luigi Mangione, 26, has been charged with murder in connection to Thompson’s death.
Investigators believed the cryptic words found on the bullet casings alluded to “the three D’s of insurance” — deny, delay, defend — which are tactics that critics say insurers use to avoid paying claims.
Kelly Rissman has the full story.
Mangione allegedly laid out plot to ‘wack the CEO’ at UnitedHealthcare’s ‘parasitic bean-counter convention’
Wednesday 11 December 2024 15:25
James Liddell
Luigi Mangione allegedly laid out his plot to “wack” the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson at his “parasitic bean-counter convention”, the shooting suspect allegedly wrote in a passage of his notebook.
The spiral notebook was found alongside a 262-word manifesto, a ghost gun, silencer and false ID cards in the shooting suspect’s possession at the time of his arrest at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Monday, according to CNN.
Inside the notebook was a to-do list outlining tasks to be completed to carry out the killing, as well as notes that justified those plans, a law enforcement source told the network.
Now, two law enforcement have cited a passage from Mangione’s book toThe New York Times.
“What do you do? You wack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents,” was one of the passages written in the notebook, the officials said.
Watch: Luigi Mangione struggles against officers and yells at reporters as he’s taken to court
Wednesday 11 December 2024 15:05
James Liddell
Who is Brian Thompson? Everything to know about the shooting victim
Wednesday 11 December 2024 14:45
James Liddell
The man arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday is now facing a murder charge in New York, linked to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was taken into custody in Altoon by Pennsylvania authorities, police sources told CBS. He is now being held without bond in Pennsylvania as he faces charges in two states.
On Saturday night, the New York Police Department released two new photographs of a person of interest pictured in the back of a taxi cab and walking alongside it.
Katie Hawkinson and Madline Sherratt have detailed what you should know about the victim.
Fingerprints at crime scene match Mangione’s fingerprints: report
Wednesday 11 December 2024 14:41
Kelly Rissman
Luigi Mangione’s fingerprints match the fingerprints collected at the scene where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered, law enforcement sources told CNN Wednesday.
The development comes two days after the 26-year-old was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania after a McDonald’s employee recognized him from the photos circulated by NYPD.
On Tuesday, Mangione appeared at an extradition hearing, where he contested being moved to New York, where he faces a second-degree murder charge. A judge denied him bail.
“It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience!,” Mangione shouted as he was escorted into the Blair County Courthouse.
Luigi Mangione’s attorney maintain’s he’s yet to see evidence linking client to crime
Wednesday 11 December 2024 14:25
James Liddell
Luigi Mangione’s lawyer has maintained that he has seen no evidence linking the gun found on his client during Monday’s arrest and that used by Brian Thompson’s killer in Manhattan last week.
“I have not been made aware of any evidence that links the gun that was found on his person to the crime. These are things we’re looking to see,” Thomas Dickey told Good Morning America host George Stephanoplous on Wednesday morning.
When Stephanoplous stated that the gun “kind of looks exactly the same to the one that was used” by the gunman who killed Thompson, Dickey replied: “A lot of guns look the same.”
The lawyer said he hopes to get his “hands on” other evidence, including the 262-word so-called manifesto which was allegedly written by Mangione, as early as Wednesday.
“Today’s another day. We’re looking forward to beginning our inquiry as to what evidence may or may not be out there.”
Watch live: Pennsylvania jail holding suspect of murdered United Healthcare CEO
Wednesday 11 December 2024 14:04
James Liddell
Mangione’s lawyer said suspect will ‘plead not guilty’ on all charges
Wednesday 11 December 2024 13:44
James Liddell
Luigi Mangione will fight his extradition to New York and is expected to plead not guilty against murder charges held against him there, his lawyer Tom Dickey said.
The Brian Thompson shooting suspect appeared at an extradition hearing at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
After the hearing, the lawyer said the 26-year-old would contest being moved to New York to face murder charges.
“He’s pleading not guilty to those offences,” Dickey told reporters on Tuesday. “I haven’t seen any evidence that he’s the shooter.”
Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks said both Pennsylvania and New York’s governors remain confident they can get the warrant to transfer him back to the Empire State before the 30-day deadline.
Dickey also said that he hoped his client pleaded not guilty to charges faced in Pennsylvania – for offenses including forgery, falsely identifying himself and carrying a gun without a license.
‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ book tops Amazon bestseller list
Wednesday 11 December 2024 13:24
James Liddell
The book Delay, Deny, Defend has ascended to the number one spot on Amazon’s bestseller law list 14-years after it was published – with its title bearing a striking resemblance to a key piece of evidence at Brian Thompson’s murder scene.
The gunman who murdered the UnitedHealth CEO in a horror early morning shooting a week ago left behind a cryptic message at the scene, carving the three words “depose,” “deny,” and “defend” into the live rounds and shell casings near the scene.
The three words appear to mirror professor of law at Rutgers Law School Jay Feinman’s 2010 book Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It.
“Today the name of the game is delay, deny, defend: to improve their profits, insurance companies delay payment of justified claims, deny payment altogether, and defend their actions by forcing claimants to enter litigation,” the book’s blurb reads.
Who is Luigi Mangione? Here’s what you should know
Wednesday 11 December 2024 13:04
James Liddell
Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder in connection to the death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside his Manhattan hotel early last Wednesday.
He is currently being held in a Pennsylvania jail without bond as he awaits extradition to New York where he faces a murder charge. He also faces charges for gun law violations in Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, his attorney said he is expected to plead not guilty to all charges.
Thompson, 50, was shot dead on December 4 outside the New York Hilton Midtown. That launched a massive manhunt for the suspect who eluded police for nearly a week.
Our reporters have detailed what you should know about Mangione, the man police say committed the crime.
Luigi Mangione’s notebook reveals chilling alleged to do list and New York bomb plans
Wednesday 11 December 2024 12:44
James Liddell
Luigi Mangione allegedly considered using a bomb in Manhattan in a murder plot against the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, he reportedly scribed in his notebook.
A “to-do list” was apparently found inside a spiral notebook that was gleaned along with a 262-page manifesto, a ghost gun, silencer and false ID cards upon the shooting suspect’s arrest at an Altoona, Pennsylvania McDonald’s on Monday.
The list allegedly outlined tasks to be completed to facilitate a killing, combined with notes that justified those plans, a source told CNN.
James Liddell
