According to major national news outlets, Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old suspect in the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, is now being charged by New York officials on multiple counts, including second degree murder.
Thompson was shot to death on Wednesday, Dec. 4, outside the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan. The company was hosting an investor day at the Hilton. This was very unexpected from Mangione, since he was “top of his class at an elite private school before graduating from an Ivy League college,” reports BBC journalists Madeline Halpert and Mike Wendling. After a 5-day man hunt, Mangione was recognized by a customer at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. They were able to recognize him from the wanted posters made by the NYPD.
Frank Figliuzzi of MSNBC suggests, “…if officials are correct and Mangione is the killer, then he seems to have carefully planned his attack on Thompson and his exit from New York.” In addition, police say the document Mangione allegedly wrote said, “These parasites had it coming.”
Did he plan more murders? If Mangione killed Thompson, why didn’t he get rid of the evidence police found in his backpack at McDonalds? More info is unfolding daily about this national case.