Police said they recovered a two-page manifesto that railed against the healthcare industry and stated, "These parasites had it coming," when they captured a suspect Monday in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested on gun charges after being captured at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, following a nationwide manhunt sparked by Thompson's murder Wednesday outside a midtown Manhattan hotel. Mangione has not been charged in connection with the killing.
Police not only recovered a gun and suppressor similar to what was used in the shooting, but multiple fake IDs, and "a handwritten document that speaks to both his motivation and mindset," New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday at a news conference.
"He was railing against the healthcare industry, which of course fits into the scenario here," John Miller, CNN's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, told "CNN News Central." "He talks about how these parasites had it coming. He starts off basically saying, I don't want to cause any trauma, but it had to be done.
"So, a second page really kind of goes into problems with the health industry. He raises the question, you know, Why do we have the most expensive healthcare in the world, but we're rated 42 in life expectancy around the world? I can't vet his facts or findings there, but it was talking about the healthcare industry and the need for violence, especially when you talk about the opening, which is, that it had to be done. These parasites had it coming. That does kind of fit in with what we're talking about."
Mangione is from Towson, Maryland, and he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 2020. His major at the Ivy League school was in computer science, and he minored in mathematics. He has addresses in Towson, Philadelphia and Honolulu, which is believed to be his last known address.
Tisch said among the fake IDs recovered was a "fraudulent New Jersey ID matching the ID our suspect used to check into his New York City hostel before the shooting." She said NYPD detectives are heading to Pennsylvania to interview the suspect.
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