Police Have Suspect's LinkedIn, IDs 'Luigi Mangione'

[MACH]

UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Man held for questioning in Pennsylvania, sources say

CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed on Wednesday in Midtown Manhattan.

 

 

Police are questioning a man in Altoona, Pennsylvania, for the brazen Midtown Manhattan murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, law enforcement sources told ABC News -- a potential major break in the case after the suspect was said to have escaped New York City after Wednesday's slaying.

The man was on a Greyhound bus traveling through Altoona on Monday morning, sources said, when he got off and walked into a McDonald's where a witness recognized him from the images of the suspect circulated by police, sources said.

The man had a similar gun to the one used in the assassination-style killing, sources said.

The Altoona man was stopped with fake IDs including a New Jersey ID that matches the one the suspected gunman used to check into an Upper West Side hostel before the shooting, sources said.

An undated NYPD handout image obtained by Reuters on Dec. 5, 2024, shows an individual wanted for questioning in connection with the killing of UnitedHeatlhcare CEO Brian Thompson, in an unknown location.

Nypd/via Reuters

Police also recovered writings and a computer from the man in Altoona, sources said.

Local law enforcement told NYPD it looks like their suspect, sources said. The NYPD is sending detectives to Altoona, which is in central Pennsylvania, about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Law enforcement is asking Greyhound for its passenger manifest, to see what name he gave them, sources said.

A New York police officer stands outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan where Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot, Dec. 4, 2024, in New York.

Stefan Jeremiah/AP

Law enforcement sources told ABC News that, as of Sunday, detectives were working through hundreds of tips that had been winnowed to dozens of potentially promising leads, and had been eyeing two possible persons of interest.

Much of their work had been focused on the shooter’s journey to Manhattan -- where he arrived on Nov. 24 -- because police knew the bus route he had taken, sources said. Detectives went to Atlanta, where the bus originated, and poured over mountains of video and images from each of the 13 stops on that route, sources said.

A New York City Police officer walks through brush and foliage in Central Park near 64th Street and Central Park West in New York City, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024.

Ted Shaffrey/AP

Meanwhile, new video obtained by ABC News shows the killer waiting for Thompson moments before the shooting.

The video shows others pass by, and then, when the masked gunman sees Thompson, he runs across the street and opens fire.

Police place bullet casing markers outside of a Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan where United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on Dec. 4, 2024 in New York City.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The video, which has not previously been seen publicly, appears to support the police narrative that the shooter targeted Thompson because he loitered while others wandered by.

Police haven't established a motive but said they haven't uncovered evidence that would show the killing had anything to do with Thompson's private life.

This undated photo provided by UnitedHealth Group shows UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer Brian Thompson.

UnitedHealth Group via AP

On Wednesday morning, the masked gunman shot Thompson at point-blank range outside the New York Hilton Midtown, where Thompson's company was holding an investors conference. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch described the attack as "brazen" and "targeted."

Right after the shooting, the suspect fled by bike through Central Park to the Upper West Side. He then took a taxi to the Port Authority bus facility at 178th Street and boarded a bus out of New York City, according to police.

Thompson, the CEO of major insurance group UnitedHealthcare, was shot to death at point-blank range in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2024.

ABC News

NYPD officials released new images this weekend of the suspect in the back of a taxi, where he could be seen peering through the open slider in the partition between the seats. Another photo appeared to show the man walking by the window of a cab.

The New York City Police Department is asking for the public's help to identify this person wanted for questioning in the Midtown Manhattan murder of a CEO on Dec. 4, 2024.

NYPD

On Sunday, members of the New York Police Department's dive team searched underwater in Central Park near the Bethesda Fountain.

New York Police Department divers search a body of water in Manhattan's Central Park on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024.

WABC

The suspect's backpack -- with a jacket and Monopoly money inside -- was found nearby in Central Park.

Police have not recovered the distinctive gun used in the shooting.

A backpack recovered by police in Central Park during the investigation into the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Dec. 6, 2024.

Obtained by ABC News

ABC News' Bill Hutchinson, Jon Haworth, Ivan Pereira and David Brennan contributed to this report.

[Sreeven]

I know Altoona, I have been there multiple times

[bandababu]

 

[MACH]

14 minutes ago, bandababu said:

 

[MACH]

https://x.com/PepMangione/

[MACH]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigi-mangione/

[MACH]

https://github.com/lnmangione/Meccanoid-Imitate/blob/master/README.md

[summer27]

@MACH - nee DP lo aa apsarasa evaru... link eyyaraade..

[karuvu]

Backpack lo emundhi inthaki 

[karuvu]

1 hour ago, summer27 said:

@MACH - nee DP lo aa apsarasa evaru... link eyyaraade..

Y u will vesu her?? Or just for personal satisfaction??

[MACH]

2 hours ago, summer27 said:

@MACH - nee DP lo aa apsarasa evaru... link eyyaraade..

search my posts. you will get it.

already received warning points

[karuvu]

19 minutes ago, MACH said:

search my posts. you will get it.

already received warning points

Warning points for wat paapam??

[Tyrannosauraus_Rex]

"FREE HIM" is now trending on X referring to Luigi Mangione.  Some people are calling him innocent; some people say what he did was a righteous expression of just anger against an unjust, rigged, corrupt American medical system.

And finally, some people are calling him to be free just because he is too pretty for prison.

[tom brady]

2 hours ago, karuvu said:

Backpack lo emundhi inthaki 

Subway sandwich

[karuvu]

18 minutes ago, Tyrannosauraus_Rex said:

"FREE HIM" is now trending on X referring to Luigi Mangione.  Some people are calling him innocent; some people say what he did was a righteous expression of just anger against an unjust, rigged, corrupt American medical system.

And finally, some people are calling him to be free just because he is too pretty for prison.

BS you can’t kill an innocent person for that just cuz u r angry wrong judgement