A pocket book discovered with Luigi Mangione comprises an outline of killing a CEO that matches particulars of his alleged homicide of UnitedHealthcare‘s CEO in New York final week, NBC Information reported Wednesday.
“What do you do?” a piece of the pocket book says.
“You wack the CEO on the annual parasitic bean-counter conference,” the pocket book says. “It is focused, exact and would not danger innocents.”
The pocket book was found when the Ivy League graduate was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, by police who discovered a gun, a silencer and ammunition in a backpack he had with him at a neighborhood McDonald’s.
That gun matched three shell casings discovered exterior the Hilton resort in midtown Manhattan the place UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on Dec. 4, New York police stated Wednesday.
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch additionally revealed that fingerprints taken from Mangione match prints on a water bottle and a Type snack bar left close to the capturing scene. Police final week had stated that the then-unidentified gunman who killed Thompson bought water and protein bars earlier than the capturing.
Thompson, a father of two, was scheduled to talk Dec. 4 at an investor day hosted by UnitedHealth Group, his firm’s mum or dad, which was being held on the Hilton.
Surveillance video of Thompson’s killing reveals a masked man firing a gun that seems to be hooked up to a silencer on the CEO from behind, simply exterior the Hilton, as one other particular person stands close by.
Hours after Thompson’s slaying, Tisch informed reporters, “I wish to be clear: At the moment, each indication is that this was a premeditated, preplanned, focused assault.”
It was beforehand reported that Mangione additionally had a handwritten observe with him that learn, partially, “These parasites merely had it coming,” when he was arrested in Altoona.
The observe, which stated he was not “working with anybody,” additionally stated, “I do apologize for any strife or traumas nevertheless it needed to be executed.”
The observe criticized UnitedHealthcare, the U.S. health-care trade and companies.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson (L) and Luigi Mangione (R).
Supply: UnitedHealthcare (L) | NYPD (R)
Mangione, who holds two levels from the College of Pennsylvania, reportedly has suffered from vital again ache for years.
UnitedHealthcare, which is the most important personal payer of medical health insurance advantages within the U.S., has been criticized for denying claims of shoppers.
Mangione is being held with out bail in Pennsylvania on state firearms and forgery prices associated to his arrest. The forgery cost pertains to his alleged possession of a number of false identification paperwork, together with one which was allegedly used to examine right into a hostel on Manhattan’s Higher West Facet almost two weeks earlier than Thompson’s slaying.
He’s charged with homicide and gun crimes in Manhattan.
At a Blair County Court docket listening to on Tuesday, Mangione refused to waive extradition to New York to face prices there for Thompson’s killing.
The Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stated they’ll file paperwork required for a decide in Pennsylvania to determine whether or not to order Mangione’s extradition.
— WNBC’s Jonathan Dienst contributed reporting.
