New details emerge about Mangione

Man accused of killing CEO indicted on 11 counts

By: Michael Loria
USA Today

..... New York prosecutors reveled a detailed timeline Tuesday [12/17/2024] of the steps they say the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson took leading up to the shooting and how he eluded authorities for several days.
..... Officials unveiled the new timeline after Luigi Mangion, 26, was indicted on 11 counts, including first-degree murder and murder as a crime of terrorism. According to prosecutors, the new details show how investigators tied Mangione to what they called the "braze" killing in Midtown Manhattan on December4. [2024]
..... "This was a frightening well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told reporters Tuesday. [12/17/2024] "The intent was to sow terror."
..... The suspect was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and is set to appear Thursday [12/19/2024] morning for an extradition hearing. Officials in Pennsylvania and New York have been working together to extradite Mangione to Manhattan.
..... While Mangione's attorney in Pennsylvania initially said he would fight extradition, Bragg said he had indications that Mangione might waive his right to contest his extradition.
..... Mangione's New York attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo did not immediately return a request for comment.

Undercover arrival in NYC

..... Mangione, a Maryland native whose last known address was in Hawaii, arrived in New York City on November 24 [2024] but used a fake identification card and mask to avoid being recognized, according to prosecutors.
..... They say he took a bus to the Port authority, a Midtown bus terminal hat services about 260,000 daily passengers, and then traveled to the HI New York City Hostel on the Upper Wast Side, where he used a fake New Jersey ID to check in under the name Mark Rosario.
..... The ID Mangione used to cheek into the hostel was the same one he later gave to police at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, according to a criminal complaint.
..... Mangione extended his stay at the hostel multiple times, according to investigators.

Up before dawn on December 4 [2024]

..... Mangione was up and out of the hostel well before dawn on December 4, [2024] the day of the murder, prosecutors said. During Tuesday's [12/17/2024] news conference, prosecutors and authorities released a new timeline of the attack:
* 5:34 AM: Mangione left the Upper West Side hostel near 103rd Street and rode an e-bike around 3 miles south to Midtown.
* 5:52 AM to 6:45 AM.: Mangione lingered outside the Hilton hotel on 54th Street in Midtown.
* 6:15 AM: Mangione purchased a water bottle and granola bars from a nearby Starbucks. Investigators later linked Mangione to the crime scene through fingerprint on the bottle and snack wrapper.
* 6:38 AM and 6:44 AM: Mangione waited on the north side of 54th Street across from the hotel. He was fully masked with his hood up.
* 6:45 AM: Thompson arrived at the hotel and Mangione cross the street. Prosecutors says Mangione then shot Thompson in the back and leg with a 3d-printed 8mm ghost gun equipped with a silencer. Mangione immediately fled north on an e-bike and later hailed a cab, where he took to 178th Street on the northern end of Manhattan Island. He then flees the state.
* 7:12 AM: Thompson was taken to Mt. Sini Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Fake New Jersey ID

..... Mangione's week on the run came to an ignominious end at a McDonald's in Altoone on December 9. [2024] Altoona police asked Mangione whether he had been to New York recently, and he grew quiet and began to shake, according to a criminal complaint field by police.
..... When he was arrested, authorities recovered a 3D-printed 9mm handgun, two ammunition magazines, bullet, a home made silencer in his backpack and the fake New Jersey ID used at the hostel, according to prosecutors.

..... Contributing: Christoper Cann and Jeanine Santucci, USA Today; Reuters

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