The 26 -year-old is expected to be extradited to New York after the shooting of Brian Thompson
Luigi Nicholas Mangione has been charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson.
Police arrested Mangione on Monday after a McDonald’s employee in Pennsylvania alerted authorities to a customer, who was found with a gun, mask and writings linking him to the ambush.
The 26-year-old, who was charged earlier in Altoona with weapons, forgery and other charges, will now be extradited to New York.
The chance sighting at the restaurant led to a dramatic break in the fast-moving investigation.
Officer Tyler Frye, who has only been on the job for about six months, and a fellow officer responded to the McDonald’s where the suspect was spotted.
They asked him to pull his blue medical mask down and “recognised him immediately”.
Officer Frye said: “We didn’t even think twice about it, we knew that was our guy.
“It feels good to get a guy like that off the street, especially starting my career this way, it feels great.
