Luigi Mangione made his first appearance in a Pennsylvania court tonight for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Mangione has been ordered to be held without bail and did not enter a plea during his court appearance. He faces five charges, which include one felony count of forgery, one felony count of carrying a firearm without a license, one misdemeanor count of tampering with records or identification, one misdemeanor count of possessing instruments of a crime, and one misdemeanor count of using false identification to law enforcement, according to the criminal complaint.
A McDonald’s employee alerted the NYPD about a man resembling the person wanted in connection with the shooting in Manhattan last week.
When they arrived, the officers wrote, they found this person sitting at a table toward the back of the building, wearing a blue medical mask and looking at a laptop on the table. One of the officers asked the person to pull his mask down, and when he did, they both recognized him from the photographs circulating of the suspect.
According to police, the 26-year-old had multiple fake IDs and a 3D-printed gun with a suppressor, officials reported.
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After they asked him if he was in New York recently, they wrote, he “became quiet and started to shake.”
