New York City’s police commissioner said on Monday police have arrested a 26-year-old with a weapon “consistent with” the gun used in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Thompson died in a dawn ambush Wednesday as he walked to the company’s annual investor conference from his hotel across the street.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Luigi Nicholas Mangione was taken into custody Monday.
He was arrested after police received a tip that he had been spotted at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference that Mangione was taken into custody after police got a tip that he had been spotted at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.
Authorities recovered a “fraudulent New Jersey ID matching the ID our suspect used to check into his New York City hostel before the shooting,” Tisch said, and “a handwritten document that speaks to both his motivation and mindset.”
NYPD Chief of Detective Joseph Kenny said the document indicated “ill will towards corporate America” rather than specific threats.
The arrest appears to bring an end to a sprawling manhunt that expand across the US. Investigators have been combing parts of New York and the rest of the country since the Wednesday shooting.
