By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-10 14:39:27 | Updated at 2024-12-25 16:35:35
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Ivy League Graduate Luigi Mangione Officially Charged with First-Degree Murder in Fatal Shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO
Gateway Pundit ^ | December 10, 2024 | Staff
Posted on 12/10/2024 4:54:44 AM PST by Red Badger
Credit: Photo: PA Department of Corrections
Luigi Mangione, 26, has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson late Monday night.
The charges were filed just hours after Mangione’s arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he was initially detained on weapons and forgery charges.
Mangione was arraigned and ordered to be held without bail during a brief court hearing in Pennsylvania. When asked if he required a public defender, he responded by asking if he could “answer that at a future date.”
The charges against Mangione include forgery, carrying a gun without a license, false identification to law enforcement authorities, and tampering with records or identification, according to The U.S. Sun.
Later in the day, the prosecutors charged Luigi Mangione with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to court documents posted online per New York Post.
Mangione remains in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections as he awaits extradition to New York.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has confirmed the charges against him, according to ABC7 NY.
However, the details of the charges will remain sealed until Mangione makes his court appearance in New York at a later date.
Credit: Altoona Police
While standing before a judge at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, the judge read the entire criminal complaint against Mangione after he noted that no one had read the complaint to him since he was arrested.
While arguing why Mangione should be denied bail, prosecutors stated that police found $8,000 in US cash and $2,000 in foreign currency.
Prosecutors also claimed Mangione had his passport and a “Faraday bag,” which is used to stop cell service transmission, in his possession.
Mangione challenged two key assertions made by prosecutors during the court proceedings. The first was their claim about the cash found on him.
“I actually want to address two of the things that you said. I don’t know where that money came from. I’m not sure if it was planted,” Mangione claimed.
The second was their assertion that his possession of a Faraday bag, which blocks cell signals. Mangione countered this by explaining that he used the bag because it was waterproof and claimed he was unaware of any implications regarding criminal expertise.
Mangione, an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland family, was apprehended at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona after a customer recognized him from images released by the New York Police Department.
At the time of his arrest, Mangione was found carrying a 3D-printed pistol, a silencer, multiple fake IDs, and a handwritten manifesto expressing grievances against the healthcare industry.
The ghost gun was recovered at the time of Luigi’s arrest. (Source: NYPD)
Mangione was carrying a fake ID at the time of his arrest (Source: NYPD) ABC7 NY reported:
Mangione was on a Greyhound bus traveling through Altoona, 276 miles west of New York City, on Monday morning, sources said, when he got off and walked into a McDonald’s where a witness recognized him from the images of the suspect circulated by police.
Officers were dispatched to the McDonalds, to respond to a report of a “suspicious male who resembled the male from a recent shooting in New York from December.”
He appeared to be wearing clothing similar to what he was seen wearing in videos obtained by detectives in Manhattan, according to two law enforcement sources.
Officers located Mangione sitting in the rear of the restaurant wearing a mask and beanie. After asking him to lower his mask, the officers “immediately recognized him as the suspect from (the) New York City incident after seeing photos released of him from (a) media source,” the complaint said.
“As soon as he pulled it down, we didn’t even think twice about it we knew that was our guy,” said Altoona Police Officer Tyler Frye.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
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1 posted on 12/10/2024 4:54:44 AM PST by Red Badger
To: Red Badger
He’s a commie and a climate alarmist...Sounds like another case of a kid going off the deep end from leftist indoctrination at one of our “Ivy league” universities which has done wonders for our country hasn’t it. If they don’t end up in prison, they end up in high level positions due to this “Ivy league” scam which is why we have absolute lunatics today sitting on the bench or acting as DAs or AGs or worse like B. Hussein, President.
2 posted on 12/10/2024 5:06:16 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: Red Badger
I would like to know when they will release details on the “3D printed pistol”. Earlier details of the gun said it was a single shot bolt action, a type of assassin weapon used in WWII. Now it’s a 3D printed pistol. Even if parts are 3D printed, the barrel, springs and screws are not 3D printed.
3 posted on 12/10/2024 5:09:33 AM PST by caver
To: Red Badger
Got everything about this client in record time?
Seems a bit weird
Bet there’s way more to it.
Keep yur eyes open
4 posted on 12/10/2024 5:18:59 AM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
To: Red Badger
First Degree Murder in NY - “time served..”
5 posted on 12/10/2024 5:20:03 AM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
To: Red Badger
6 posted on 12/10/2024 5:22:43 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
To: Red Badger
7 posted on 12/10/2024 5:25:54 AM PST by XEHRpa
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
8 posted on 12/10/2024 5:26:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Red Badger
This guy is going to have the sex boycott by the liberal girls gone wild lifted. They are all in love again. He’s the new commie lib hero for the DNC and has probably already jumped to the top of the list for the 2028 Presidential nominee for the RAT Party. Karmelita Harriz is out. The first woman president is out.
9 posted on 12/10/2024 5:29:39 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America-hating Democrat "core values" really suck. All Marxist fascists have the same ones.)
To: Red Badger
It smells like a hired killer.
The question is now who paid?
10 posted on 12/10/2024 6:01:16 AM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
To: Red Badger
He is going to be popular....in prison
11 posted on 12/10/2024 6:03:54 AM PST by Zathras
To: Salman
Another big question is who gave him the intel on the CEOs movement? He wasn’t going to stand around at 6:45 all day.
12 posted on 12/10/2024 6:19:40 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
To: Zathras
He thought he was so smart and clever.
Now he’s destroyed several peoples’ lives along with his own, he so cavalierly threw away.
Notice his huge smile is gone, probably forever.
He has yet to feel the full impact of what he has done.
He is a prime candidate for suicide, just like that football player Aaron Hernandez committed suicide after his conviction for murder.
He also came from a wealthy family, whose parents were in the healthcare industry.
This guy will end up the same way.....................
13 posted on 12/10/2024 6:21:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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