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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

HEALTH-BOSS SHOOTING: IVY LEAGUE GRAD TURNED ALLEGED “ASSASSIN” CHARGED WITH MURDER

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Just hours after Luigi Mangione was taken into custody in Pennsylvania, he faced a murder charge.

The second-degree murder charge joined charges of forgery, carrying firearms without a license, tampering with records or identification, possessing instruments of crime, and providing false identification to law enforcement authorities. The initial charges were local to Pennsylvania.

However, the NYPD also charged Mangione with possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a forged instrument, and criminal possession of a weapon. Mangione will be extradited to New York, but that transfer likely will not happen for several days.

Mangione was arrested while sitting in the back of an Altoona McDonald's. He was wearing a mask, eating breakfast, and looking at his laptop when an employee suspected he was the subject of a manhunt out of New York.

Altoona police arrived, and Mangione began to shake when officers asked him to lower his mask and confirm if he had been in New York recently. A search of Mangione revealed a ghost gun, a silencer, and multiple fake IDs. Officers arrested the 26-year-old on several charges but not for the murder of Brian Thomas.

Mangione faces charges of forgery, carrying a firearm without a license, tampering with records or identification, possession of instruments of crime, and providing false identification to law enforcement. When asked if he needed a public defender, Mangione replied that he would "answer that at a future date.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:06.7

An Ivy League grad turned assassin, now charged with murder.

0:13.2

I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.

0:17.5

Breaking, a person of interest identified in the United Healthcare CEO shooting,

0:23.6

a man taken into custody in Pennsylvania.

0:28.2

Straight out to Chief of Detective's NYPD, Joe Kinney.

0:32.6

A male was taken into custody today at Altoona, Pennsylvania this morning.

0:36.4

He has been identified as Luigi Nicholas

0:38.5

Mangione. He's a male 26 years old. He was born and raised in Maryland. We know he has ties to

0:45.7

San Francisco, California, and his last known address was Honolulu, Hawaii. He has no prior

0:51.1

arrest history in New York. This case was brought to a successful conclusion based on the coordinated effort between numerous NYPD units,

0:59.5

including the Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau,

1:02.7

our federal partners at the FBI, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office,

1:06.9

and of course, members of the Altoona Police Department in Pennsylvania.

1:10.6

Repeat, for those of you just joining us, bombshell, an arrest has been made in the so-called health boss murder.

1:18.8

Of all people, an Ivy League grad turned assassin born with a silver spoon in his mouth right now in isolation and a Pennsylvania

1:33.1

CI Correctional Institute at Huntington. What happened? How did a guy with everything turn into a cold, blooded assassin?

1:48.2

Joining me in an all-star panel, straight out to Hermania Rodriguez,

1:52.0

joining us, chief U.S. reporter with DailyMail.com,

1:55.7

and star of the podcast, The Trial of Diddy.

1:58.7

Hermania, tell me about the arrest.

2:01.8

Right.

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