An online court docket filed on Monday charges Luigi Mangione with second-degree murder in New York in relation to the death of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
The 26-year-old is also charged with criminal possession of a weapon, possession of a loaded firearm, and possession of a forged instrument, according to the docket.
He allegedly used the fabricated document—a phony New Jersey driver’s license—to check into the hostel on the Upper West Side.
While awaiting extradition to New York, Mangione remains in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.
The charges have been verified by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Until Mangione appears in court in New York later, the court documents that explain them will be kept under secrecy.
The allegations in New York come just hours after Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Police photos of their person of interest in a blatant, targeted attack in Midtown Manhattan on December 4 were used by a McDonald’s employee to identify him.
Mangione’s mugshot was made public by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections on Monday night.
According to the criminal complaint filed in Pennsylvania, he had been charged earlier in the day with five felonies, including possessing tools of crime, carrying a gun without a license, forgery, and falsely identifying himself to authorities.
According to the charging papers, Mangione carried the ghost gun without a license and misled authorities about who he was.
Following Mangione’s arrest on Monday, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated that the gun and suppressor were compatible with the weapon used in the murder.
The criminal complaint claims that when officers searched Mangione’s backpack after his detention, they found a black silencer and a black 3-D printed revolver.
There were six nine-millimeter full metal jack rounds in the filled Glock magazine of the handgun. According to the lawsuit, there was also one unsecured hollow point round measuring nine millimeters.
According to NYPD Chief of Detective Joe Kenny, the purported weapon discovered on Mangione was a “ghost gun,” meaning it lacked a serial number and could not be tracked down.
Several handwritten papers were also found after Mangione’s arrest.
According to Kenny, there was considerable animosity for corporate America in the document.
ABC News was informed by law enforcement authorities that UnitedHealthcare is expressly mentioned in the papers.
According to the informants, the handwriting was messy, and they quoted I’m sorry if this caused any conflict or trauma, but these parasites had it coming.
According to sources, police are currently looking into Mangione’s trips both domestically and abroad during the past 12 months.
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