It appears they got the UHC shooter already.
New York prosecutors have filed murder and other charges against Luigi Nicholas Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, according to an online court docket.
The action brought an end to a tense five-day manhunt for the suspected killer.
Mr Mangione remained jailed in Pennsylvania, where he was charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police.
Police arrested him on Monday after he was spotted in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s by a customer who thought he looked like the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The 26-year-old was in possession of a gun, silencer, fake IDs, and a handwritten document suggesting he had “ill will towards corporate America”, police said. […]
On Monday, Mr Mangione was sitting in the rear of the McDonald’s, wearing a blue medical mask and looking at a laptop computer, when he was arrested, court documents said.
A customer saw him and an employee called 911, said Kaz Daughtry, an NYPD deputy commissioner.
Altoona Police Officer Tyler Frye said he and his partner recognised the suspect immediately when he pulled down his mask.
“We just didn’t think twice about it. We knew that was our guy,” he said.
Wasn’t expecting that at all. I had a distinct feeling it would take a lot more time and effort than this. Also wasn’t expecting brother Luigi to be… well, a Unabomber-esque crank, or at any rate that’s the perception the media seems to be trying to push; this article goes so far as to note that the book study group he founded back in Hawai’i actually studied Kaczynski’s manifesto at one point (albeit as a “joke”?), and there’s a somewhat peculiar purported screenshot of his Twitter circulating at the moment in which he offers interesting solutions to the Japanese birth rate problem. Uncertain how authentic it is, but I’ve seen someone else post another screenshot of him linking to a Jash Dholani piece… so.
The oddest detail in all of this, of course, is that he was evidently carrying his own manifesto or whatever it is with him when he was caught. Which is a bit of a head-scratcher until you consider the speculation I’ve seen that he wanted to get caught, because he wants to go on trial and use that as a massive public platform for his beliefs and opinions. Doesn’t really make much sense otherwise, to be honest.
