What we know about the person of interest detained in health care CEO killing
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Now to our other major story, police say they have detained a man they're calling a strong person of interest in the murder of the CEO of the nation's largest health insurer who was shot in New York City last week, leading to a nearly week-long manhunt that widened beyond the city's limits. |
| 0:18.5 | Tonight, authorities say they apprehended 26-year-old Luigi Mangione in the brazen and targeted |
| 0:24.6 | shooting of 50-year-old Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare. |
| 0:29.6 | He matches the description of the identification we've been looking for. |
| 0:35.6 | He's also in possession of several items that we believe will connect him to this incident. |
| 0:43.7 | How did we do it? |
| 0:46.0 | Good old-fashioned police work. |
| 0:49.0 | Mangione was taken into custody after police got a tip that he'd been spotted at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, |
| 0:55.8 | more than 200 miles west of New York. |
| 0:58.1 | Someone and McDonald's employee did something we ask every American to do. |
| 1:03.7 | If you see something, say something, but most importantly, do something. |
| 1:08.9 | And they did. |
| 1:10.2 | Police say they found Mangione with a firearm that was consistent with the one used in the |
| 1:14.6 | murder, complete with a suppressor. |
| 1:16.6 | The NYPD said it was a ghost gun, not licensed and not manufactured, but made with parts |
| 1:22.6 | that could have been printed by a 3D printer. |
| 1:25.6 | Police also found multiple fake IDs, a passport, and a three-page document full of writings |
| 1:30.6 | that they said spoke to his motivation and mindset. |
| 1:34.3 | Last week, investigators confirmed they found shell casings at the scene inscribed with the |
| 1:39.3 | words delay, deny, and depose, words often associated with the ways insurance companies deny claims. |
| 1:46.8 | Police said the document they found today revealed more about Mangione, but they provided |
| 1:51.1 | few details. |
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