Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, reportedly didn’t have insurance coverage via the corporate, in keeping with NBC Information.
UnitedHealth Group mentioned there isn’t a document of Mangione being insured via UnitedHealthcare, as reported by NBC Information.
The Hill has contacted NYPD for added remark.
“We have no indication that he was ever a client of United Healthcare, but he does make mention that it is the fifth-largest corporation in America, which would make it the largest healthcare organization in America,” New York Police Division Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny mentioned in an interview that aired Thursday.
“So that’s possibly why he targeted that that company,” he added.
Thompson was shot and killed final week exterior a midtown Manhattan lodge the place UnitedHealth Group was holding its annual investor convention.
Mangione faces 5 counts together with homicide within the second diploma, in keeping with an arrest warrant. He additionally faces two counts of prison possession of a weapon within the second diploma, one depend of prison possession of a weapon within the third diploma and prison possession of a cast instrument within the second diploma.
Police mentioned a ghost gun, silencer and writings expressing “some ill will toward corporate America” had been discovered on Mangione, which linked him to the crime.
Mangione, a College of Pennsylvania graduate, mentioned in a handwritten notice that he acted alone.
Mangione was arrested Monday on gun expenses in Altoona, Pa., in keeping with New York Metropolis police, who described him as a “person of interest” in final week’s taking pictures. He faces 5 expenses in Pennsylvania, together with for carrying a firearm and not using a license and falsely figuring out himself to regulation enforcement.
