UnitedHealthcare CEO killing: Police arrest ‘strong person of interest’
globalnews.caPolice on Monday arrested “a strong person of interest” who was found in Pennsylvania with a firearm they said is “consistent” with the one used in last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, officials announced after an intense days-long manhunt for the shooter.
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters Luigi Mangione, 26, was taken into custody by police in Altoona, Penn., about 233 miles (375 kilometers) west of New York City, earlier Monday. She said Mangione was recognized by an employee of a local McDonald’s who then called local police.
Mangione was found with multiple false identification cards and a firearm and a suppressor, another name for a silencer, that Tisch said matches the one police believe was used in the fatal shooting. She added one of the ID cards matched the ID used by the suspect to check into a hostel in Manhattan before the shooting.
Officials credited the wide distribution of surveillance images of a person of interest sought in the shooting that led to Mangione’s arrest.
“How did we do it? Good old-fashioned police work,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said.
“We sent (the photos) across the country, and someone, a McDonald’s employee, did something we ask every American to do: if you see something, say something — but most importantly, do something. And they did.”
Thompson, 50, was killed last Wednesday in what police said was a “brazen, targeted” attack as he walked alone to the Hilton from a nearby hotel, where UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group, was holding its annual investor conference, police said.
The shooter appeared to be “lying in wait for several minutes” before approaching the executive from behind and opening
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