According to court documents, Ivy League graduate Luigi Mangione was charged by New York authorities on Monday with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The charge was made just hours after Mangione, 26, was charged with a gun and other offenses in a Pennsylvania courtroom. He had been arrested earlier Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a staff member reported him to the police for acting strangely.
According to a court document, Mangione was charged in state court in Manhattan on Monday night with second-degree murder, criminal possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a silencer, and possession of a forged instrument by the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
UnitedHealthcare CEO killed by Luidi Mangione
He is charged with shooting Thompson dead outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan early on Wednesday morning. Thompson, a 50-year-old father of two, was shot by a masked shooter brandishing a weapon that looked to have a silencer attached while he was on his way to an investment meeting for UnitedHealth Group, the company’s owner.
The shooter reportedly waited for Thompson for several minutes before carrying out what she described as a “premeditated, preplanned targeted attack,” according to New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
The phrases “delay,” “deny,” and “depose” were inscribed on shell casings discovered at the scene.
