The 26-year-old suspect shouted at reporters and struggled with deputies outside the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday, yelling: 'That’s completely out of touch and an insult to the American people.'
Luigi Mangione, Penn grad charged in slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO, is fighting extradition to New York
During Tuesday’s extradition proceeding in Hollidaysburg, Pa., defense attorney Thomas Dickey told the judge that Mangione intended to fight his return to New York, setting off a legal process that Blair County District Attorney Peter J. Weeks said could take up to 45 days to complete. “You can’t rush to judgment in this case or any case,” Dickey told reporters afterward. “He’s presumed innocent. Let’s not forget that.”Meanwhile, investigators fanned out across New York and Pennsylvania seeking to establish a timeline of Mangione’s whereabouts over the seven days since Thompson was gunned down while leaving United Healthcare’s annual investor conference in Midtown Manhattan.
A restaurant employee overheard that conversation and called police. Officers found Mangione sitting at a table toward the back in a winter jacket and ski cap, wearing a blue medical mask, carrying a backpack, and using a laptop on the table in front of him, according toThe officers “immediately recognized him” from images New York City police had circulated of the person wanted in connection with Thompson’s shooting, they wrote in a criminal complaint.
But Mangione disputed that during a Monday evening hearing before District Judge Benjamin F. Jones. He maintained he’d bought the bag because it was waterproof and said he did not know where the money found in his backpack came from, suggesting it might have been planted.criticized big businesses that “continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.
It remained unclear whether Mangione or anyone he knew had had a dissatisfactory outcome with UnitedHealthcare in the months leading up to Thompson’s slaying. After six months living at Surfbreak, Martin said, Mangione left to undergo surgery on the East Coast. He returned to an apartment in Honolulu, where he lived until this summer,New York Police Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny told Fox News.
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