Police have accused a 26 year old youth luigi mangione in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Outside the New York City Hilton Hotel earlier this month. they say a trail of evidence Links him to the crime, including the suspect's fingerprints and handwritten notebook entries.
A person familiar with the case told CBS News that prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney's office have begun presenting evidence in the case to a New York grand jury and are seeking to indict Mangione for Thompson's murder. The Manhattan DA's office declined to comment on the grand jury proceedings due to confidentiality.
Mangione, a former prep school valedictorian and a ivy league graduate from a major maryland familywas arrested on Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and is being held without bail on the charges Counterfeiting and Firearms ViolationsHe appeared in court and opposed his extradition to New York, where he faced second-degree murder charges for Thompson's murder.
Once Mangione is extradited, the New York City Police Department said he is expected to be charged with premeditated first-degree murder, which is rarely filed unless an officer is killed. Has been done. The final decision on any charges rests with the District Attorney's Office.
Here's a look at the evidence authorities say they've collected so far against Mangione.
his notebook entries
authority recovered a spiral notebook Mangione when he was arrested, two law enforcement sources told CBS News. He said Mangione wrote that he considered using a bomb but decided on gunfire instead because it would be more targeted and would avoid endangering innocent people.
Police said Mangione has pleaded not guilty in statements he gave to investigators. But investigators are citing the note as Mangione's claim of responsibilitySources told CBS News.
According to the NYPD, some of the notes in his notebook expressed disdain for corporate America and the health system in particular. This is in line with the investigators' working principle Suspect's possible motive To target Thompson, that is clearly hostile toward the health care industry.
Police have said Mangione suffered a serious back injury in 2023, requiring a trip to the emergency room and surgery to place screws in his spine. He posted pictures of the spinal X-ray on his social media.
fingerprints and dna
Authorities said they were able to identify Mangione relatively quickly as a suspect in Thompson's murder because of forensic evidence allegedly linking him to the crime.
“We have DNA,” said Joseph Kenney, the NYPD's chief of detectives when the investigation began. “We have fingerprints which are being processed.”
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Wednesday that police took Mangione's fingerprints when he booked them into a Pennsylvania prison, and that those fingerprints were left on a water bottle and a Kind bar found near the shooting scene. Were matching. The bottle and protein bar wrappers were collected near Starbucks Where the suspect was seen on surveillance video A few minutes before the shooting.
Mangione is also suitable for print found on a cellphone It was recovered from near the incident site, police said.
Weapon
police said A 3D-printed gun And the suppressor found in Mangione's backpack at the time of his arrest was consistent with the weapon used to shoot and kill Thompson, and they matched the gun in his backpack to three 9-mm shell casings found at the crime scene Was. Sometimes called a “ghost gun,” this type of firearm can be made at home using a 3D printer and lacks a serial number, making tracking difficult. (Not all ghost guns are illegal, and not all firearms require a serial number.)
According to the criminal complaint filed in Pennsylvania, the gun Mangione possessed contained a loaded Glock magazine with six 9-mm rounds and a 3D-printed silencer.
Obtained by CBS News
Earlier in the investigation into Thompson's death, NYPD sources told CBS News that many of the words were carefully worded. Written in Sharpie on shell casings and pills Recovered from the crime scene. These words were “delay,” “denial” and possibly “deletion”, which investigators believed might refer to the “D of insurance” coined by critics of the industry. The original alliterative list – “delay, deny, defend” – comments on the tactics that opponents of insurance companies say they use to deny claims.
face mask, clothes, fake id
When Mangione was arrested, he was found wearing clothing including a face mask and fake identification cards similar to those used by the shooter, police said.
Surveillance video and photos of the suspect circulated widely after the shooting, capturing the moment of the shooting as well as his first stop at the front desk of a Starbucks store in Midtown and a hostel on the Upper West Side , where authorities believe he remained. The suspect's full face was visible only in the dorm's surveillance footage. Other images and videos show him wearing a black face mask and a hooded sweatshirt.
Mangione had A Fake New Jersey Driver's License When he was detained in Pennsylvania, consistent with the false identification, police say he checked into that hostel in New York. According to police, that license was one of several fake IDs found in his possession. He also had a United States passport, $8,000 in cash, and a handwritten note.
Mangione was reported missing
A person familiar with the investigation told CBS News that Mangione's mother reported her son missing to the San Francisco Police Department days before the December 4 shooting.
She filed that report amid widespread concerns from Mangione's friends and family about his whereabouts and well-being. Posts tagging him on social media indicate that Mangione has lost touch with people he used to be close to.
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