Luigi Mangione ’s legal battle has begun. After the 26-year-old was arrested Dec. 9 and later charged with murder in New York for the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson , as well as four other charges in Pennsylvania related to possession of a firearm and forged documents, he was indicted Dec.
17. In the indictment document issued by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Mangione has been charged with one count of murder in the first degree for the death of Thompson, as well as one count of murder in the second degree as a crime of terrorism, one count of murder in the second degree, two counts of criminal weapon possession in the second degree, four counts of criminal weapon in the third degree, one count of criminal possession in the fourth degree, and one count of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree. “We allege that Luigi Mangione carried out the brazen, targeted and fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan,” said district attorney Alvin L.
Bragg in a press release. “T his type of premeditated, targeted gun violence cannot and will not be tolerated, and my office has been working day in and day out to bring the defendant to justice.” If charged, Mangione faces the maximum penalty of life in prison without parole.
Mangione’s indictment comes just over a week after he was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania , when authorities received a call from an employee at the e.
