Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder in UnitedHealth Exec’s Killing | Global News Avenue

Prosecutors charged 26-year-old Luigi Mangione with second-degree murder in the Dec. 4 death of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, according to an arrest warrant.

Mangione was charged with second-degree murder, possession of an illegal weapon and forgery, according to a New York arrest warrant.

Mangione is Arrested Monday morning At a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pa., authorities said an employee called police because a diner’s photo was similar to a photo of the shooter released by police.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney said Monday afternoon that police had discovered a handwritten document indicating that Mangione had “With ill will toward corporate America.” Mangione was allegedly found with a semi-automatic handgun, a firearm silencer and “written admissions regarding the crime,” the warrant states.

Mangione, who works in data engineering, was the 2016 valedictorian of Gilman School, an all-boys college north of Baltimore, Maryland, and went on to study computer science and artificial intelligence at the University of Pennsylvania, the Baltimore Standard reported. His family is well-known in the Baltimore area, where his grandfather owned country clubs and nursing homes and one of his cousins ​​is a county councilman, the Standard reported.

thompson lives in minnesota He shoots as he walks Heading to a hotel in downtown Manhattan, UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of health insurance companies (united nations institutes of health), was holding an investor meeting, police said.

The NYPD said the suspect ran north, rode his bicycle into Central Park and then left the city, setting off a five-day manhunt.

This article has been updated to add background information about Mangione.