Luigi Mangione, the previous Penn graduate accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, has been charged with a number of federal crimes, together with homicide, stalking, and weapons offenses. These costs are along with the state-level costs in New York and Pennsylvania already filed in opposition to him.
Throughout a quick court docket listening to in Decrease Manhattan on Thursday, Decide Katharine Parker learn the 4 federal costs in opposition to Mangione, 26, which had been unsealed earlier that day. Extradited from Blair County, Pennsylvania, the place he was apprehended in an Altoona McDonald’s practically two weeks in the past, Mangione was ordered to stay in custody with out bail till his subsequent listening to in mid-January, in accordance with the Related Press.
Late final week, Mangione had employed a high-profile New York lawyer and dropped his objection to extradition to New York, which he had pursued in his first court docket look in Pennsylvania.
The lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, mentioned in court docket that she was shocked by the federal costs, which adopted a dramatic public perp stroll at a Manhattan helipad.
“I don’t assume they even knew this was going to occur,” she mentioned relating to the flip of occasions. “There are loads of components which are very complicated and extremely uncommon. Frankly, I’ve by no means seen something like this.”
The Incident
Federal prosecutors allege that Mangione traveled to New York Metropolis by bus and waited exterior a Manhattan lodge the place Thompson was attending an investor convention. Mangione is accused of capturing Thompson with an untraceable firearm earlier than fleeing to Pennsylvania. He was touring between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh by bus when arrested.
Federal Costs
If convicted, Mangione may face the demise penalty. The federal costs embrace:
- Utilizing a firearm to commit homicide: Most sentence of demise or life in jail.
- Interstate stalking leading to demise: Most sentence of life in jail.
- Stalking utilizing interstate amenities leading to demise: Most sentence of life in jail.
- Discharging a firearm geared up with a silencer throughout a violent crime: Sentence of 30 years to life in jail.
State Costs
Along with the federal costs, Mangione was indicted this week by a Manhattan grand jury on 11 state costs. These embrace homicide as an act of terrorism, felony possession of a weapon, and felony possession of a cast instrument.
Mangione additionally faces costs in Pennsylvania, the place he was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, 5 days after the capturing.
Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg described the killing as “a daunting, well-planned, focused homicide supposed to trigger shock, consideration, and intimidation.”
New York media had a subject day as Mangione made his look: