New York police said that a 26-year-old “person of interest” has been taken into custody in Pennsylvania in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan.
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch identified the man as Luigi Mangione and said police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, arrested him after he was recognized in a McDonald’s there. Authorities said he was found with a document that indicates “ill will towards corporate America.”
The announcement marks an end to a days-long manhunt that began after UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, 50, was shot and killed outside a Manhattan hotel Wednesday. Tisch said Mangione, who was born and raised in Maryland, “is believed to be our person of interest in the brazen, targeted murder” of Thompson.
Police said they believed he attended college in Pennsylvania, and so far they had not found evidence of prior arrests.
Mangione graduated as high school valedictorian in 2016, from Gilman School, a boys’ school in Baltimore that said that it did not have “any information” to share beyond news reports.
“We recently became aware that the person arrested in connection with the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO is a Gilman alumnus,” Henry P.A. Smyth, the head of the school, wrote in an email. “This is deeply distressing news on top of an already awful situation. Our hearts go out to everyone affected.”