Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO, shouted at the news media right outside of a courthouse in Pennsylvania as police officers ushered him inside for an extradition proceeding.
Mangione, 26, yelled “completely out of touch” and “an insult to the intelligence of the American people” as law enforcement officers corralled him against the wall of the Blair County Courthouse and led him inside.
The suspect in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is in custody of Pennsylvania authorities following his Monday arrest at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa. On Tuesday afternoon, he was brought into a state courthouse a few miles away in Hollidaysburg, Pa. for the proceeding after authorities in Manhattan charged him with second-degree murder.
The proceeding was slated to begin at 1:30 p.m. EST, according to a court spokesperson. It remains unclear if Mangione is opposing extradition to New York.
Mangione was spotted and arrested in Altoona after a tip from a McDonald’s employee while eating food there. He was caught with a gun, a silencer and a fraudulent New Jersey ID card.
The fake ID matched the name that he checked in with at a New York hostel prior to the shooting, which took place last week, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. The ghost gun found on the suspect coincided with the firearm used in Thompson’s murder.
Mangione, an Ivy League graduate, was hit with five crimes in the Keystone State after his arrest, per a criminal complaint.
Tisch called the shooting a “brazen, targeted attack.”
Thompson, the healthcare executive, got to UnitedHealth in 2004 and was the leader of UnitedHealthcare, the company’s insurance division.
-Zach Schonfeld contributed.