Police arrested a suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was described as a “person of interest” by New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch at a news conference Monday afternoon. She added that Mangione had multiple items on him, including a firearm with a suppressor, a fake ID, and a “handwritten document that speaks to both his motivation and mindset,” when he was arrested by local police in Pennsylvania on local firearms charges.
Mangione was discovered at a McDonald’s and was recognized by an employee, according to officials. She said that NYPD detectives were on their way to Pennsylvania to question him.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that the local police in Altoona are in possession of the handwritten three-page document. Based on local authorities’ assessment of the document, they do not believe there are any specific threats to other people, but it “seems he has some ill will toward corporate America,” the chief of detectives said.
Kenny said authorities will work on extraditing Mangione to New York but noted that he faces separate gun charges in Pennsylvania. The firearm was described as a “ghost gun,” or a firearm assembled by a person that lacks a serial number, according to authorities.
Officials said Mangione had no prior arrests and has ties to Maryland, California, and Hawaii, and he also “may” have attended college in Pennsylvania. Kenny said they believe Mangione acted alone.
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The Altoona Police Department confirmed that its officers “made contact with the male who was subsequently arrested on unrelated charges” and that their police department is “cooperating with local, state, and federal agencies.”
The arrest comes five days after Thompson was shot and killed outside the New York Hilton Midtown as he was entering the company’s annual investor conference in what Tisch called a “brazen targeted attack.”
