Suspect charged with murder in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing
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🗓️ 10 December 2024
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A 26-year-old suspect has been charged with murder in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO Brian Thompson.
USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page discusses how President-elect Donald Trump's takeover on foreign policy has begun.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, Ad-Free, right now. |
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| 0:12.3 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Tuesday, December 10, 2024. |
| 0:17.8 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:25.3 | Today, a suspect has been charged with murder in the killing of United Healthcare CEO. Plus, we discuss how Donald Trump's takeover on foreign policy has begun. And can |
| 0:31.7 | Trump use Jill Biden's image to sell perfume? A Maryland man has been charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of United |
| 0:40.7 | Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week. |
| 0:44.5 | A criminal complaint filed by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, also charged 26-year-old |
| 0:49.1 | Luigi Nicholas Mangione with forgery, tampering with records or identification, giving police false ID and |
| 0:55.9 | possessing instruments of a crime. Authorities said they found a 3D printed handgun and a silencer |
| 1:00.9 | when they searched Mangione's backpack while detaining him at a McDonald's in western Pennsylvania. |
| 1:06.5 | Police officers responding to a restaurant employee's tip said they recognized Mangione right away from widely distributed law enforcement photos once he removed his face mask upon their request. |
| 1:17.0 | According to the complaint, Mangione presented a fake New Jersey driver's license when first approached by officers who said he grew silent and started shaking when they asked if he had recently been in New York City. |
| 1:28.4 | Mangione was a private school valedictorian, an Ivy League graduate. |
| 1:31.9 | His alleged crime has sparked a conversation around health care in the U.S. |
| 1:35.6 | and how untraceable ghost guns and silencers can be assembled via a 3D printer. |
| 1:41.1 | 50-year-old Brian Thompson was shot Wednesday on a midtown Manhattan Street outside |
| 1:45.4 | a hotel where he was set to speak at an investment conference. Surveillance cameras show a shooter |
| 1:50.6 | firing multiple times from behind Thompson at close range at about 645 a.m. You can follow the |
| 1:57.0 | latest developments on USA Todayatoy.com. |
| 2:08.2 | President-elect Donald Trump's takeover on foreign policy has begun. |
| 2:12.3 | I caught up with USA Today, Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page for more. |
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