Dec 24, 2024 | The suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson has pleaded not guilty to murder and terrorism charges in New York state.
Luigi Mangione, 26, appeared in court on Monday to be arraigned on 11 state criminal counts, including murder as an act of terrorism.
As well as the state-level charges, he is also accused of federal (national-level) stalking and murder offences that could lead to a death penalty sentence.
Prosecutors allege that Mr Mangione shot Mr Thompson in central Manhattan before going on the run. Authorities later arrested him at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
Dec 19, 2024 | The suspect accused of shooting dead healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York has dropped his legal challenge against being extradited to the city to face murder charges.
Luigi Mangione is now in NYPD custody and is expected to be flown from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested, to New York.
He faces charges including first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder, one of which describes the killing as an act of "terrorism”.
He attended two hearings in Pennsylvania on Thursday morning for a gun charge in the state and a second on the request to extradite him.
Dec 16, 2024 | Investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein joins us to discuss the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as he walked to a shareholders conference in New York City earlier this month, and his accused killer, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione. Thompson's vigilante-inflected death has inflamed public discourse over the predatory practices of the private healthcare industry. "People working these call centers are themselves upset at having to deny claims," says Klippenstein. Last week, he published what is believed to be Mangione's "manifesto," which details Mangione's anger at the industry and his motivation for the killing. Meanwhile, healthcare companies appear to be scrambling to protect their public reputation. "I speculate that it is the absence of discourse around our healthcare system that fed into the rage we're seeing now," adds Klippenstein. "To miss that as part of this story is just malpractice."
