Luigi Mangione Charge With Murder Of UnitedHealthcare CEO
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Luigi Mangione is facing a second-degree murder charge in New York City in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.
An extradition hearing is schedule for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Mangione is a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family. He was taken into custody Monday after police got a tip that he was eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. When Mangione was arrested, he had “written admissions about the crime” with him, according to the New York arrest warrant.
Mangione had several handwritten pages on him that expressed a “disdain for corporate America” and indicated “he’s frustrated with the health care system in the United States,” NYPD Chief of Detective Joe Kenny told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” on Tuesday.
“Specifically, he states how we are the No. 1 most expensive health care system in the world, yet the life expectancy of an American is ranked 42 in the world,” Kenny said.
One of the lines that Mangione wrote read “These parasites had it coming,” concluding industry companies “continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.”
Whether Mangione has a personal connection to UnitedHealthcare is unknown, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said, but the writings mention UnitedHealthcare by name.
