Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder in UnitedHealth Exec’s Killing

Prosecutors charged Luigi Mangione, 26, with second-degree murder in the Dec. 4 killing of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, according to an arrest warrant.

A warrant for Mangione’s arrest in New York said that Mangione has been charged with second-degree murder, as well as possession of an illegal weapon and a fraudulent document.

Mangione was arrested Monday morning at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., where authorities say an employee called police because a diner appeared to resemble images police released of the shooter.

The New York Police Department’s chief of detectives, Joseph Kenney, on Monday afternoon said police found a handwritten document that suggested Mangione had “ill will toward Corporate America.” Mangione was allegedly found with a semi-automatic pistol, gun silencer and “written admissions about the crime,” the warrant states.

Mangione, who worked in data engineering, was the 2016 valedictorian at Gilman School, an all-boys institution in north Baltimore, Md., and went on to study computer science and AI at the University of Pennsylvania, according to the Baltimore Banner. His family is prominent in the Baltimore area, where his grandfather owned country clubs and nursing homes and one of his cousins is a county lawmaker, the Banner reported.

Thompson, who lived in Minnesota, was shot as he walked toward a midtown Manhattan hotel, where the health insurer’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group (UNH), was holding an investor conference, police said.

The suspect ran north, biked into Central Park and then left the city, prompting a five-day manhunt, the NYPD said.

This article has been updated to add background information about Mangione.