Cops question Luigi Mangione in Altoona, Pa., for shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

Rocco Parascandola, Graham Rayman, Thomas Tracy and Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News on Dec 9, 2024

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NEW YORK — A suspect, identified by police sources as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, has been taken into custody for the Midtown Manhattan murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the Hilton Hotel following a five-day manhunt, police said Monday.

Mangione was nabbed at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Penn., carrying a gun that appears to match the murder weapon seen in security video of the shooting, police sources said. He was carrying writings critical of the health care industry when captured, police sources told the Associated Press.

A worker at the McDonald’s believed he recognized Mangione from surveillance images released by the NYPD of the suspect and called in the tip, sources said.

Mangione was taken into custody carrying a fake New Jersey ID, police sources said. No charges were immediately filed. NYPD detectives are on their way to Pennsylvania to interview the suspect.

At a press conference at City Hall in Manhattan, Mayor Eric Adams credited “good old fashioned police work” for the arrest.

Mangione, based on his writings, has “ill will toward corporate America,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.

The Maryland native graduated top of his high school class and went on to major in computer science at University of Pennsylvania.

Included on an online list of books Mangione read this year is Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski’s “Industrial Society and its Future”, which he rated four out of five stars.

Mangione graduated as Valedictorian of the private, all-boys Gilman School in 2016, according to the Baltimore school’s website.

In a recap of the graduation ceremony posted on the site, Mangione is quoted as commending his classmates for their “inventive, pioneering mentality that accompanies a strong commitment to Gilman tradition.”

The suspect’s last known address is Honolulu, Hawaii, police said. He has connections to San Francisco and no arrest history in New York City.

Police were offering a $10,000 reward for any information leading to the gunman’s capture as the search for the masked shooter continued. The FBI also offered $50,000 for information resulting in an arrest and conviction of the suspect.

Harrowing surveillance footage shows the suspect creeping up and shooting Thompson in the back on W. 54th St. near Sixth Ave. about 6:45 a.m. Wednesday.

The 50-year-old CEO of the Minnesota-based company was approaching the Hilton to help prepare for an investor day conference, officials said.

After shooting Thompson in the back, the gunman then coolly clears a jam in his pistol before firing at least three more times, the video shows.

He fled the scene on a bicycle and disappeared in Central Park but cops picked up his trail late Wednesday night on the Upper West Side.

Cops found the words“Deny,” “Delay,” and “Depose” written on the bullets — a supposed insurance industry mantra for delaying claims and maximizing profits — leading police to believe that the killer has a beef with the insurance industry.

The gunman arrived in New York City on a Greyhound bus from Atlanta more than a week before unraveling his murder plot — and allowed images of his face to go public when he let his guard down flirting with a hostel worker.

NYPD detectives, with the help of Port Authority police, have managed to track the gunman’s movements from when he first arrived in the city. Police sources said the suspect arrived in the city on a Greyhound bus from Atlanta on the evening of Nov. 24.

He found his way to the HI New York City Hostel on Amsterdam Ave. near W. 104th St., where cops recovered images of the suspect without a mask and smiling at someone behind the reception desk.

The hostel staffer reportedly got the suspect to smile by flirting with him and asking him to pull down his mask to “see his handsome face.”