A possible motive that we are also looking into is that he suffered an accident that caused him to visit an emergency room back on July 4 of 2023,” an NYPD official said Wednesday.
Mangione, 26, is expected to be turned over to the NYPD by federal agents in the morning and brought into state court for his arraignment on murder charges.
"Insanity may be his only defense," former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Newsweek, referring to Luigi Mangione.
The man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive in a brazen hit in New York that sparked fierce debate about the industry pleaded not guilty Monday to state charges including “terrorist” murder.
Luigi Mangione is now expected to face federal chargers in connection with the killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in addition to state charges in New York and Pennsylvania, a Justice Department source confirms.
Luigi Mangione arrived via helicopter in New York City on Thursday after being extradited from Pennsylvania. Prosecutors have charged Mangione with murder, terrorism, and stalking in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The charges carry the possibility of the death penalty. His extradition to NYC was quite the spectacle.
A grinning Luigi Mangione appeared to yuk it up in a Manhattan courtroom Monday as he entered a plea in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a busy sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan, is expected to be arraigned early Monday morning in New York on state murder and terror charges.
"The target is insurance because 'it checks every box,'" read a passage from a notebook, which was dated Aug. 15, that authorities found with Luigi Mangione, according to the court papers.
Tisch, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), announced the unsealing today of a Complaint charging LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE in connection with the December 4, 2024, murder of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.
The city's police department earlier this month said crime was down year-over-year, including on the city's transit system.