Late Monday night, New York prosecutors formally charged 26-year-old Luigi Mangione with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Mangione, who was apprehended in Altoona, Pennsylvania, now faces multiple charges, including criminal possession of a weapon and possession of a forged instrument related to the December 4 assassination of Thompson, according to Fox News.
Authorities in Pennsylvania had detained Mangione earlier on charges of possessing an unlicensed firearm, providing false identification to police, and forgery.
Thompson was fatally shot on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan early last Wednesday morning while attending a conference. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated that surveillance footage revealed the suspect lying in wait and allowing others to pass by before targeting Thompson directly.
After the shooting, the assailant fled on a bike toward Central Park, a location with limited surveillance cameras compared to other parts of Manhattan.
The suspect discarded a backpack in the park before heading to an uptown bus station near the George Washington Bridge. Surveillance footage captured him entering the station but not exiting, leading investigators to believe he purchased a one-way ticket out of New York City.
Mangione was ultimately arrested Monday morning at a McDonald’s in Altoona. Authorities discovered