UnitedHealth CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione is charged with five counts in the murder of Brian Thompson outside the Midtown Hilton Hotel last week, according to a newly issued arrest warrant. are.
What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
- Brian Thompson, CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed in a “brazen, targeted attack” outside a luxury midtown hotel on Wednesday, police said.
- Mr. Thompson was appointed CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives at the company targeted by the Justice Department.
- Thompson's wife, Paulette, said she had received threats before her husband was killed.
- The Thompson shooting sparked an online frenzy and even sparked a tasteless lookalike contest in New York.
- A dignitary was arrested by police inside a McDonald's store in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
- The suspect has been identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson, Maryland. He was a former Ivy League student who hated the medical world.
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Mangione was charged with three counts of murder, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a forged instrument, according to court documents filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and charged in New York City on Monday after a hectic five-day investigation.
