On Friday, the FBI’s New York Field Office acknowledged that San Francisco police had given a tip about the potential identification of the perpetrator in last week’s shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City.
The San Francisco Police Department’s tip about 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was the most recent Bay Area connection to come to light since Thompson was killed outside a Hilton hotel in New York City on December 4.
When Mangione was detained in Pennsylvania on Monday on accusations of guns and other offenses, he was already considered a person of interest in the case. After he was spotted at an Altoona McDonald’s, authorities received a tip. He is facing murder charges related to the shooting.
According to a person close to the investigation, San Francisco police had already seen pictures of suspect Luigi Mangione days before to the shooting because Mangione’s mother reported her missing to the SFPD, CBS News said.
According to an FBI New York Field Office spokeswoman who spoke to CBS New York correspondent Ali Bauman on Friday, “a tip was received from the San Francisco Police Department regarding the possible identity of the suspect.”
As the NYPD helped with the inquiry, the FBI later forwarded that tip and additional leads to them.
“Extensive sharing of the photos by law enforcement led to the identification by a citizen and subsequent arrest by the Altoona Police Department,” the statement continued.
Apart from the missing person complaint that Mangione’s mother submitted to the San Francisco Police Department, the suspect’s LinkedIn page indicates that he had previously visited the Bay Area in 2019 while working as an AI teaching assistant at a Stanford summer program.
Stanford officials have verified that “a person by the name of Luigi Mangione was employed as a head counselor under the Stanford pre-collegiate studies program between May and September of 2019.”
At the State Correctional Institution (SCI) Huntingdon in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, he is presently being detained under maximum security.
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