Luigi Mangione, the suspected killer within the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was by no means a shopper of his alleged sufferer’s firm … this in keeping with the NYPD.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny spoke with NBC New York Thursday, the place he knowledgeable the outlet there’s “no indication” LM was ever insured by the medical company … speculating Mangione might’ve “focused” UHC for its standing as the most important healthcare org within the nation.
As Kenny continued, he famous that Mangione “had prior data that the convention was happening on that date, at that location” — referring to the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel, the place Thompson was fatally shot final week.
Mangione appeared to reference UnitedHealthcare within the manifesto discovered on his individual when he was arrested in a Pennsylvania-based McDonald’s Monday.
In the 262-word doc, which regulation enforcement sources confirmed to TMZ, the previous Ivy League graduate railed in opposition to companies … particularly these tied to the healthcare trade.
TMZ.com
He wrote … “I do apologize for any strife of traumas however it needed to be finished. Frankly, these parasites merely had it coming.”
Kenny did recommend “a life-changing, life-altering damage” to Mangione’s again “might have put him on this path” … which LM beforehand posted about on social media.
Mangione, who’s at the moment being detained in PA whereas he fights extradition to NYC, is at the moment going through homicide and gun prices in Manhattan in reference to Thompson’s dying.
His lawyer mentioned Mangione plans to plead not responsible, in addition to ask for bail, quickly.
We’re positive extra developments are to return … so, keep tuned.