Published: 2:44am, 11 Dec 2024Updated: 4:58am, 11 Dec 2024
The man charged with brazenly gunning down a top health insurance CEO in New York carried a handwritten manifesto of grievances against the industry, police said on Tuesday, giving a possible motive for the first time.
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Luigi Mangione, 26, yelled and struggled with officers as he was led into court in Pennsylvania wearing an orange jumpsuit, for a hearing on extraditing him back to New York.
He is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street last week, triggering a nationwide manhunt that ended Monday when he was recognised at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Mangione fought his extradition to New York, a complaint which Blair County prosecutor Peter Weeks described as creating “more hoops … to jump through”, and a judge denied him bail as the process continues.
The defence lawyers now have 14 days to submit motions against moving Mangione to New York, Weeks said.
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The suspect, who attended the elite University of Pennsylvania and reportedly comes from a wealthy family, could be heard shouting “unjust” and “an insult to the intelligence of the American people” as officers bundled him out of a car and into court.