The suspected assassin accused of gunning down the CEO of a major health insurer has officially been charged with murder hours after he was arrested in Pennsylvania.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested in Altoona on Monday following a tip from a McDonald's customer. He was found with a gun, mask and notes, as well as a passport and $10,000 in cash, some of which was foreign currency.
“The customer recognized, notified an employee and wanted someone to check it out further,” said Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police.
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Late Monday, prosecutors in Manhattan filed murder, gun and forgery charges against Mangione following the shooting death of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, online court records reviewed by Raw Story showed. He remained jailed in Pennsylvania, where he was charged with having an unlicensed gun, forgery and providing false identification to police, The Associated Press reported.
Mangione was booked at State Correctional Institution, Huntingdon in Pennsylvania.
“Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” Mangione’s family said in a statement posted on social media late Monday by his cousin, Maryland lawmaker Nino Mangione. “We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved.”
A friend of Luigi Mangione was stunned by the arrest.
“He was absolutely a not violent person, as far as I can tell,” said R.J. Martin, a friend and former roommate of the 26-year-old Mangione. “Personally, I can make zero sense of it. There's never a justification for violence.”
