Luigi Mangione, the man charged with the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has been photographed for the first time wearing an orange jumpsuit in a mugshot.
Mangione, 26, was arrested on Monday, 9 December, at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, following an intense five-day nationwide manhunt after 50-year-old Brian Thompson was shot from behind on the sidewalk outside a New York City Hilton hotel before a shareholder conference.
Mangione was charged with murder just hours after his arrest in connection with the killing of Thompson, who headed the United States’ largest medical insurance company.
Mangione remains in jail in Pennsylvania, where he was initially charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery, and providing false identification to police. Manhattan prosecutors have obtained an arrest warrant, which could help expedite his extradition from Pennsylvania.
Court officials have stated that Mangione has not yet secured an attorney to comment on the allegations. When asked at Monday’s arraignment whether he needed a public defender, Mangione replied that he would “answer that at a future date.”
Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 230 miles (370 kilometres) west of New York City, after a McDonald’s customer recognised him and alerted an employee, authorities said.
Officers found him sitting at a back table, wearing a blue medical mask and looking at a laptop, according to a Pennsylvania police criminal complaint.
He initially provided a fake ID, but when an officer asked whether he had been to New York recently, he “became quiet and started to shake,” the complaint says.
When Mangione pulled down his mask at the officers’ request, “we knew that was our guy,” rookie Officer Tyler Frye said.
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed that Mangione was carrying the gun used to kill Thompson, as well as the same fake ID the shooter had used to check into a New York hostel, along with a passport and other fraudulent IDs.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny stated that Mangione was also carrying a three-page, handwritten document expressing “some ill will toward corporate America.”
Brian Thompson, 50, was killed last Wednesday as he walked alone to a Manhattan hotel for an investor conference.
