The UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect’s family is known in the Baltimore area, and his cousin is in the state’s Legislature.
Luigi Mangione, the man arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week, is related to a GOP lawmaker in Maryland.
Police arrested Mangione on Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and held him on local charges after he was recognized by others in the restaurant from photographs released by the New York Police Department (NYPD) last week. New York Mayor Eric Adams described him as a « strong person of interest » during a press conference.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during the press conference that Mangione was arrested with a gun and a fake New Jersey ID card that appeared to match the ID the shooter used to check into a New York City hostel before the killing.
Mangione, 26, has been named a person of interest, not a suspect, and has not been charged with Thompson’s shooting. He is being held and questioned on local charges, and NYPD officers are traveling to Altoona, about 250 miles away from the midtown Manhattan crime.
