UnitedHealth CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione faces five charges for the killing of Brian Thompson last week outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown, according to a newly-released warrant for his arrest.
What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
- Brian Thompson, the CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down Wednesday outside a luxury Midtown hotel in a “brazen, targeted attack,” police said.
- Thompson was named CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Department of Justice.
- Thompson’s wife, Paulette, said her husband had been getting threats before he was killed.
- Thompson’s shooting led to sick support online, and even spurred a tasteless lookalike competition in NYC.
- A person of interest has been nabbed by police officers inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa.
- The suspect has been identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, originally from Towson, Md. He’s a former Ivy League student who hated the medical community.
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Mangione was charged with murder, three counts of criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal possession of a forged instrument, the court docs filed in Manhattan Supreme Court say.
The charges were filed in New York City after Mangione was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, following a hectic, five-day manhunt.
