Luigi Mangione, suspected of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is expected to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court Monday to be arraigned on state murder and terrorism charges.
Mangione, 26, is slated to appear before state Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro on the 11-count indictment brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.
He’s charged with first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism, second-degree murder as a crime of terrorism, an additional count of murder and eight other counts and faces a potential sentence of life without parole if found guilty of the most serious allegations.
Following his Thursday extradition to New York from Pennsylvania Thursday — where he was arrested at a McDonald’s on Dec. 9 after a nationwide five-day manhunt —Mangione was taken into federal authorities’ custody and charged with murder with the use of a firearm, stalking, and a firearm offense.
Protestors hold signs outside of Manhattan Criminal Court before Luigi Mangione’s arraignment. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)
The maximum potential sentence in Mangione’s federal case is the death penalty, though it’s not clear prosecutors would pursue that punishment. State and federal authorities have said the cases will proceed in parallel.
Mangione was detained on the eighth floor of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after appearing in federal court in Manhattan. His continued detention there or transfer to a city jail facility is expected to be discussed at Monday’s arraignment.
The Ivy League computer science graduate who comes from a prominent family in Towson, Md., is accused of fatally shooting Thompson in the back and leg on Dec. 4 as the health care executive arrived at the Hilton Hotel in Midtown for an annual investor conference.
When he was spotted at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., on Dec. 9, police took him into custody and recovered on his person a 3D-printed ghost gun, silencer, and ammunition matching that which was recovered at the scene, according to state and federal authorities.
He was also in possession of fake IDs and writings critical of the health care industry, according to court docs, and sketched-out plans documented months before the killing to “wack” a CEO at the conference.
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