Luigi Mangione was arrested on gun charges in Pennsylvania and was named a person of interest in the murder of Brian Thompson.
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Authorities on Monday announced the arrest of 26-year-old Luigi Mangione on firearms charges and identified him as a “strong person of interest” in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—who was fatally shot last Wednesday—saying Mangione matched the suspect’s description and appeared to have “motivation.”Key Facts
NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference that Mangione, 26, was arrested on firearms charges and said he is “believed to be our person of interest in the brazen targeted murder” of Thompson.
She said Mangione was recognized in a McDonald’s and reported to local police, who then found he had “multiple fraudulent IDs,” a U.S. passport, a firearm and suppressor similar to what was used in the murder and a “handwritten document that speaks to both his motivation and mindset.”
NYPD Chief Detective Joseph Kenny said Mangione will face gun charges in Pennsylvania and will be extradited to New York to face charges there, too.
Mangione, a Maryland native, was last known to be living in Honolulu, Hawaii, has no prior arrest history in New York or elsewhere in the country, and he may have attended college in Pennsylvania, police said.
Social media pages that appear to be for Mangione say he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer and information science in 2020 and was valedictorian at the Gilman School, a private K-12 school in Maryland, in 2016.
The New York Times reported Mangione was the valedictorian when he graduated from the all-boys private school in 2016 and gave a speech describing his class as “coming up with new ideas and challenging the world around it.