Man, 26, arrested with gun ‘consistent with’ one used to kill insurance chief
The man was taken into custody after he was spotted at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.
Police arrested a “strong person of interest” on Monday in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive after a quick-thinking McDonald’s employee in Pennsylvania alerted authorities to a customer who was found with a weapon and writings allegedly linking him to the ambush.
The 26-year-old man had a gun believed to be the one used in the killing and writings suggesting his anger with corporate America, police officials said.
He was taken into custody after police got a tip that he was eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
He had clothing and a mask similar to those worn by the gunman and a fraudulent New Jersey ID matching one the suspect used to check into a New York City hostel before the shooting, Ms Tisch said.
NYPD chief of detectives Joseph Kenny identified the suspect as Luigi Nicholas Mangione, who was born and raised in Maryland, has ties to San Francisco and a last known address in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Mangione was being held in Pennsylvania on gun charges and will be extradited to New York to face charges in connection with Mr Thompson’s death, Mr Kenny said.
Police found a three-page document with writings suggesting that Mangione had “ill will toward corporate America,” Mr Kenny said.
