Luigi Mangione, the person accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has waived extradition and expects to be returned to New York as quickly as Thursday, his legal professional mentioned Wednesday.
The choose in Pennsylvania should settle for the waiver or go ahead with a scheduled listening to Thursday morning instantly following a separate listening to on the native fees Mangione faces.
Assuming the extradition paperwork is so as, the NYPD would transport Mangione from Pennsylvania to New York. Mangione might be arraigned in New York as quickly as Thursday.
A particular version of “20/20” airing Dec. 19 at 10 p.m. ET on ABC appears on the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the manhunt that led to the arrest of Luigi Mangione, who went from the Ivy League to alleged killer.
Luigi Mangione is led into the Blair County Courthouse for an extradition listening to Dec. 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Mangione, 26, is accused of gunning down Thompson exterior a Hilton resort on Dec. 4 because the CEO headed to an traders convention. Prosecutors alleged Mangione waited almost an hour for Thompson to reach.
A Manhattan grand jury has upgraded fees towards Mangione to incorporate first-degree homicide in furtherance of terrorism, prosecutors introduced Tuesday.
The slaying within the coronary heart of Midtown Manhattan unfolded as vacationers, commuters and residents had been on the streets and was “meant to evoke terror,” Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg mentioned.
Police place bullet casing markers exterior of a Hilton Lodge in Midtown Manhattan the place United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on Dec. 4, 2024 in New York Metropolis.
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In Pennsylvania, the place Mangione was arrested on Dec. 9 after almost one week on the run, he faces fees together with allegedly possessing an untraceable ghost gun.
When Mangione was apprehended, he had a 9 mm handgun with a 3D-printed receiver, a selfmade silencer, two ammunition magazines and reside cartridges, prosecutors mentioned.
Luigi Mangione, a suspect within the New York Metropolis killing of UnitedHealth govt Brian Thompson, arrives for an extradition listening to at Blair County Courtroom Home in Hollidaysburg, Pa., Dec. 10, 2024.
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Mangione can be charged in New York with: two counts of second-degree homicide, one in every of which is charged as killing as an act of terrorism; two counts of legal possession of a weapon within the second diploma; 4 counts of legal possession of a weapon within the third diploma; one depend of legal possession of a weapon within the fourth diploma; and one depend of legal possession of a cast instrument within the second diploma.
