Luigi Mangione, the suspect within the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, waived extradition and is headed again to New York to face homicide expenses.
Mangione, 26, will depart Pennsylvania on Thursday after he agreed to be extradited throughout a court docket look, a spokeswoman confirmed.
He was being held within the Keystone State after his arrest in Altoona final week.
Thompson was shot and killed in Manhattan earlier this month outdoors the Hilton Midtown resort earlier than his firm’s annual investor assembly. The suspect fled, and a days-long manhunt ensued.
Mangione was noticed in a McDonald’s in Altoona and has been in custody on firearm expenses in Pennsylvania.
Prosecutors in New York subsequently unveiled a homicide indictment, together with a first-degree homicide cost and two counts of second-degree homicide, considered one of which was charged as a terrorism crime.
A Manhattan courtroom has been put aside for Mangione’s look later Thursday, and an overflow room has been designated for folks to look at the continuing, The Related Press reported.
Blair County (Pa.) District Lawyer Peter Weeks stated Mangione will “go forth with New York to await trial or prosecution.”
“We intend to keep our case active, and we intend to essentially revisit the case when the defendant is available for prosecution in Blair County,” Weeks stated of the costs Mangione faces in Pennsylvania.
