BREAKING: MAN HELD IN HEALTH-BOSS-SHOOTING, SILENCER, FAKE ID’S
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
A person of interest in custody in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in connection with the fatal shooting of of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week.
New York police announced the 26-year-old suspect , Luigi Mangione, is being held in Pennsylvania awaiting extradition to New York. NYPD officer are on their way to Altoona. The suspect was reportedly apprehended at a McDonald's, where an employee believed he resembled the man who shot Thompson and called the police.
Police say the man had a gun with a suppressor and fake IDs — including one for New Jersey which reportedly was used at the hostel in New York, and a hand-written manifesto. Reportedly, it outlined complaints about the healthcare industry.
Mangione has been arrested on gun charges.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:07.0 | Bombshell tonight. In the last hours, a man nabbed in the health boss assassination. |
| 0:13.4 | With him, a ghost gun, a silencer, multiple fake IDs, and a handwritten manifesto attacking the healthcare industry. Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:27.9 | This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us. Earlier this morning in Altoona, Pennsylvania, |
| 0:33.7 | members of the Altoona Police Department arrested Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old male on firearms charges. |
| 0:43.0 | At this time, he is believed to be our person of interest. |
| 0:46.6 | That's right. In the last hours, a person of interest nabbed in the fatal shooting of health care boss Brian Thompson. |
| 0:54.7 | From what we understand, a McDonald's employee and Altoona in Western Pennsylvania |
| 1:00.7 | spotted the guy and thinks he looked like the health boss assassin. |
| 1:09.4 | Probably trying to use a fake ID in a McDonald's, according to law enforcement |
| 1:15.2 | and the New York Post. The man being eyed for the cold-blooded execution of Brian Thompson. |
| 1:23.3 | The guy has a gun, a silencer, four fake IDs, and other items consistent with what |
| 1:30.9 | L.E. was looking for in the case. But is it him? Does he match this description? According to a |
| 1:38.8 | McDonald's employee, he does. What else do we know? Where is Altoona, Pennsylvania? Western Pennsylvania, 280 miles away from Manhattan, a little over a five-hour drive. But the manhunt across the nation going in every direction from Manhattan, divers, drones, you name it, all used, |
| 2:05.1 | employed to find the killer of the health care boss. What led to the detainment of this guy, |
| 2:14.3 | we also understand that in his possession is a New Jersey ID, a fake ID, possibly used to check into that Manhattan hostel. |
| 2:26.8 | In the last hours, police press conference, listen. |
| 2:29.0 | A male was taken into custody today at Alituta, Pennsylvania this morning. |
| 2:32.2 | He has been identified as Luigi Nicholas |
| 2:34.9 | Mangione. He's a male 26 years old. He was born and raised in Maryland. We know he has ties to |
| 2:42.1 | San Francisco, California, and his last known address was Honolulu, Hawaii. He has no prior |
| 2:47.5 | arrest history in New York. Members of the NYPD Detective Bureau |
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