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How was Luigi Mangione arrested? Details
Luigi Mangione, the man who police believe shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week in New York City, was arrested on Monday in Pennsylvania. FOX 5 NY's Robert Moses has the details.
PENNSYLVANIA - The NYPD announced on Monday the arrest of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in last week's fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel.
Mangione was arrested yesterday morning at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, hundreds of miles outside the Big Apple.
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From Mangione’s arrival in NYC to his arrest at a McDonald’s in PA, here’s how the chilling events allegedly unfolded.
Here's how the events unfolded, and what police found with the suspect.
Detailing Luigi Mangione's arrest
Mangione was taken into custody on Monday around 9:15 a.m. after police received a tip from a worker that he was eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, hundreds of miles outside of New York City, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference.
‘He looked like the shooter’
A customer at the McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where Mangione was arrested said one of his friends had commented beforehand that the man looked like the suspect wanted for the shooting in New York City.
"It started out almost a little bit like a joke, my one friend thought he looked like the shooter," said the customer, who declined to give his full name, on Tuesday.
The tipster thought Mangione looked like the suspected gunman in photographs shared by police. He "had the same eyebrows," law enforcement sources said.
"I think the one worker that actually thought it was him. She said between his eyes and his eyebrows … it was like she got in her mind, ‘Oh my God. It’s the guy from New York.’"
According to court documents, Mangione was sitting at a table in the rear of the McDonald's wearing a blue medical mask and looking at a silver laptop computer and had a backpack on the floor. In photos obtained by FOX 5 NY, he appears to be eating hashbrowns.
Photo credit: Pennsylvania State Police.
When he pulled down his mask, Altoona police officers "immediately recognized him as the suspect" in the murder of Thompson, court documents say.
Asked for identification, Mangione provided officers with a fake ID — a New Jersey driver’s license bearing another name and the incorrect date of birth. The ID matched one the suspect used to check into a New York City hostel before the shooting, Tisch said.
‘Became quiet and started to shake’
When an officer asked Mangione if he’d been to New York recently, he "became quiet and started to shake," the documents say.
In his backpack, police found a black, 3D-printed pistol and a 3D-printed black silencer, the papers say. The pistol had a metal slide and plastic handle with a metal threaded barrel. It had one loaded Glock magazine with six 9 mm full metal jacket rounds and one loose 9 mm hollow-point round.
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"As of right now, the information we’re getting from Altoona is that the gun appears to be a ghost gun that may have been made on a 3D printer, capable of firing a 9 mm round," NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a news briefing.
Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks said in court that Mangione was carrying a passport and $10,000 in cash — $2,000 of it in foreign currency. Mangione disputed the amount. He was also found with a box of masks, the prosecutor said.
Three-page document
Police found a three-page document with writings suggesting that Mangione had "ill will toward corporate America," Kenny said. The handwritten document "speaks to both his motivation and mindset," Tisch said.
"They were very detailed, and everything we have is going to be turned over to NYPD," Altoona Deputy Chief of Police Derek Swope told The Associated Press.
The document also included a line in which he claimed to have acted alone, according to a law enforcement official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
"To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone," the document said, according to the official.
It also had a line that said, "I do apologize for any strife or traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming."
The Associated Press wire services helped contribute to this report.