Luigi Mangione, the suspect within the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO, shouted on the information media proper outdoors of a courthouse in Pennsylvania as cops ushered him inside for an extradition continuing.
Mangione, 26, yelled “completely out of touch” and “an insult to the intelligence of the American people” as legislation enforcement officers corralled him in opposition to the wall of the Blair County Courthouse and led him inside.
The suspect within the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is in custody of Pennsylvania authorities following his Monday arrest at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa. On Tuesday afternoon, he was introduced right into a state courthouse a couple of miles away in Hollidaysburg, Pa. for the continuing after authorities in Manhattan charged him with second-degree homicide.
The continuing was slated to start at 1:30 p.m. EST, in line with a courtroom spokesperson. It stays unclear if Mangione is opposing extradition to New York.
Mangione was noticed and arrested in Altoona after a tip from a McDonald’s worker whereas consuming meals there. He was caught with a gun, a silencer and a fraudulent New Jersey ID card.
The faux ID matched the title that he checked in with at a New York hostel previous to the taking pictures, which passed off final week, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated. The ghost gun discovered on the suspect coincided with the firearm utilized in Thompson’s homicide.
Mangione, an Ivy League graduate, was hit with 5 crimes within the Keystone State after his arrest, per a prison criticism.
Tisch referred to as the taking pictures a “brazen, targeted attack.”
Thompson, the healthcare govt, acquired to UnitedHealth in 2004 and was the chief of UnitedHealthcare, the corporate’s insurance coverage division.
-Zach Schonfeld contributed.
