A 26-year-old man has been charged in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City.
According to foreign media, Luigi Mangione was arrested at a McDonald's in the city of Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 280 miles (450 km) west of New York City on Monday after a customer at the fast food outlet recognized him.
The author is an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland family. He was found with a gun and a handwritten document that read "motivation and mentality," according to police, A2 CNN writes.
Mangione then appeared in a Pennsylvania court to stand trial on five original charges and was denied bail.
Just hours later, New York investigators charged Mangione with murder and four other charges, including the firearms charge.
Thompson, 50, was fatally shot in the back last Wednesday morning outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where UnitedHealthcare, the health insurance giant he ran, was holding an investor meeting.
Police say he was the target of a premeditated murder, writes A2 CNN. (A2 Televizion)
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