Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested on a firearms charge by police in Pennsylvania, on Monday, following the shooting of healthcare boss Brian Thompson by a masked gunman in Manhattan last Wednesday.
A man arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson has been named as Luigi Mangione. The 26-year-old was arrested on a firearms charge by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning, following the shooting of Mr Thompson by a masked gunman in Manhattan last Wednesday. He has not been charged with the killing of Mr Thompson, officials said on Monday.
, Mangione was arrested in Altoona on Monday after a tip-off from a McDonald's employee who recognised him from the police appeals. Altoona is around 230 miles to the west of New York and in the state of Pennsylvania. According to police, he had a silencer and a gun 'both consistent with the weapon used in the murder'.
Commissioner Jessica Tisch told a press conference on Monday. He was found carrying a 'handwritten document' which Ms Tisch said spoke 'to both his motivation and mindset'. chief of detectives Joseph Kenny said that from the document, it appeared the suspect had 'some ill-will towards corporate America'. Background According to police, Mangione was born and raised in the state of Maryland and has links to San Francisco in California and Hawaii's capital Honolulu. His social media lists him as being from Towson, a well-to-do area to the north of the city of Baltimore. He is said to have attended Gilman school - a private all-boys school in the city.
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