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Man arrested over insurance executive murder

By AFP
December 10, 2024
An image of the individual sought in connection to the investigation of the shooting death of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealths insurance unit, is seen in an undated still image from surveillance video taken in a taxi in New York City, US, released on December 8, 2024. — Reuters
An image of the individual sought in connection to the investigation of the shooting death of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth's insurance unit, is seen in an undated still image from surveillance video taken in a taxi in New York City, US, released on December 8, 2024. — Reuters

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.