Luigi Mangione is charged with the shooting murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York on December 4, 2024 outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan where UnitedHealthcare, the medical insurance giant Thompson led, was holding an investors meeting. Luigi Mangione is charged with first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism, two counts of second-degree murder, one of which is charged as killing as an act of terrorism; two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second-degree; four counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third-degree; one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree; and one count of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree. Following a huge manhunt, Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He showed the police a fake New Jersey driver's licence with the name Mark Rosario. In his backpack was what police called a 'ghost gun' - which could have been 3D-printed - and a loaded magazine with six rounds of 9mm ammunition. He was also carrying a US passport and $10,000 cash of which $2,000 was in foreign currency. |