Man arrested over insurance executive murder

NEW YORK: A 26-year-old man was arrested on Monday after the targeted killing of a top health insurance executive on the streets of New York, police said, crediting a McDonald´s employee in Pennsylvania who spotted a suspicious-looking customer.

Investigators were interrogating the man, Luigi Mangione, in connection with last week´s killing of a senior figure at UnitedHealthcare, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. He is being held by officers in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after being found with a weapon that New York Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny described as a “ghost gun” capable of firing 9MM rounds and equipped with a suppressor. The man was spotted in a McDonald´s in the town some 500-kms west of New York, by someone who tipped off the authorities, Tisch added.