A Manhattan grand jury has indicted the 26-year-old accused of shooting and killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown hotel earlier this month on terrorism charges, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said on Tuesday.
Luigi Mangione faces charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a forged instrument. Some of the murder charges accuse Mangione of killing Thompson in furtherance of an act of terrorism, according to the indictment.
Bragg called Thompson’s killing “brazen, targeted and premeditated.”
“This was a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation,” Bragg said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania after someone at a McDonald’s recognized him from surveillance footage circulated by law enforcement. He’s also facing charges there, but Bragg and Gov. Kathy Hochul are seeking to extradite him to New York.
Bragg said his office is working with Pennsylvania officials to get Mangione to New York.
Mangione’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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