Suspect UHC killer Luigi Mangione was caught not with AI facial recognition, but by a random person who recognized him in a McDonald’s.
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Although cops used all manner of technological means to try to apprehend the killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, it was a keen-eyed McDonald’s worker — not facial recognition or other high-tech surveillance tools — who ultimately led to his arrest.
As the New York Times reports, police were hesitant to attribute the dramatic end to their five-day, multi-state manhunt for the killer to any one thing, after deploying drones, artificial intelligence, K-9 units, and even scuba divers to bring him in.
After police in Pennsylvania arrested a suspect named Luigi Mangione, officials with the New York Police Department were nevertheless forced to admit that the now-notorious photo of the 26-year-old smiling in his Manhattan hostel did him in after a worker at a McDonald’s restaurant in the tiny PA town of Altoona alerted police when a customer recognized him.
