Luigi Mangione faces serious charges after the alleged targeted killing of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
Luigi Mangione has been charged with first-degree murder in New York for what prosecutors alleged was the “frightening, well-planned and targeted” killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson .
Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg said that the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, who was last week arrested by local police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, had been formally indicted on one count of murder in the first degree “in furtherance of terrorism”, and two counts of murder in the second degree, one of which was charged as a “killing as an act of terrorism”. He is also facing several lesser charges including criminal possession of a weapon. “This was a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock . . . and intimidation,” Bragg told reporters on Tuesday. The most serious charge, murder in the first degree, carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Mangione is being held without bail in Pennsylvania and is due in court there on Thursday morning. New York authorities are seeking to bring Mangione back to the city to face the charges. Bragg said Mangione might waive his hearing on the extradition request, which could see him in New York custody by the end of the week. The indictment returned by the grand jury — including the decision to seek a top charge of first-degree murder — lays bare the seriousness with which New York authorities have approached the slaying of the top executive at the nation’s largest health insurer, which shook New York and corporate America. Bragg’s office also revealed further details from the ongoing investigation. They said Mangione, an engineering graduate, arrived in New York over a week before Thompson’s murder, checking into an Upper West Side hostel using a fake New Jersey ID on November 2
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