A shocking murder in the streets of New York City. On December 4, 2024, UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, 50, was in New York for a big investor meeting. The meeting was scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. at the Hilton Hotel. Thompson was staying across the street at a different hotel and at about 6:45 a.m. he left his hotel and crossed the street. That’s when the suspect approached him from behind, shooting him three times and killing him. The shooter had arrived at the scene about five minutes before Thompson. Then after the shooting, he took off across the street and jumped on to an e-bike to escape (may or may not be a city bike). This prompted a massive manhunt by the NYPD, executing search warrants and trying to track down a killer.
CEO of an incredibly large company United Healthcare. Millions and millions of people have UnitedHealthcare. They are worth billions and billions and billions of dollars. The man who was murdered making $10 million a year and didn’t have bodyguards.
Someone knew his schedule and knew he would be there. Someone who waited only for five minutes in front of the hotel. He knew exactly when Brian Thompson was going to be there, an hour and 15 minutes ahead of time. There are many different ways one can enter and exit. How did he know which entrance Brian Thompson was going to go into?
The murder was caught on video, because there are CCTV everywhere in New York City.
$10,000 is reward for information leading to an arrest.
New images of the suspect were released by the NYPD. He apparently stayed in High New York City hostel. It is not a cheap hostel. The suspect apparently book space on November 30th with a fake New Jersey ID at the hostel.
This is important forensic evidence and is being tested for DNA.
There has been a lot of talk initially that maybe this was someone who was really trained, because they had seen the gunman go up behind Brian Thompson and the gun gets jammed and he was able to quickly fix it, so he was able to shoot again in the back, as well as the calf. Now, with all these things being left behind, there is a suspicion that he wasn’t professional killer.
Police say after the shooting, the suspect fled on foot, got on e-bike. Authorities found a cell phone on the route he used to escape. It may be a burner phone and in that case he probably disposed of it, not to be tracked. The suspect went into Central Park.
NYPD: “I want to be clear at this time. Every indication is that this was a premeditated, pre-planned, targeted attack.”
During the search of Central Park police found the suspect’s backpack. Inside, police found Monopoly money and a jacket, according to officials briefed on the matter. Police say the gunman used a fake New Jersey driver’s license to check into a hostel.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested on December 10, 2025, on a gun charge after being picked up while eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, following an employee calling the police. The 26-year-old had multiple fake IDs and a gun with a suppressor, according to officials. He was carrying a a three-page handwritten manifesto criticizing health insurance companies.
The suspect was Gilman School valedictorian (a prestige private school). He graduated from University of Pennsylvania. He was an Ivy League graduate and worked for TrueCar.
He was reportedly very popular in High school, considered an extraordinary mind. People described Luigi as pretty normal, not introverted or extroverted. He was friendly, productive and likable.
Luigi Mangione comes from a prominent Maryland family which owns two country clubs, a radio station and Turf Valley resort. Reportedly, they owned nursing homes. He lived in Hawaii in 2022 and 2023 and left due to chronic back pain. He had been living in San Francisco. His behavior changed six months ago, and on November 18, 2024, his mother filed a missing person report.
Police found Mangione’s fingerprints both on the water bottle and the kind of bar near the scene of the murder.
People on social media support Luigi Mangione, because of the health insurance problem. Also, many people find him attractive. Surging support on social media for murder suspect #freeluigi is trending worldwide. Some of the comments are:
– “Voting for politicians who will give us universal healthcare”… That would be great! They never let us have that choice though, do they?
– BCBS (Blue Cross/Blue Shield) had a plan to limit anesthesia during surgery. This would mean surgeons would have to rush and lead to mistakes. After the shooting, they publicly withdrew the proposal. I’m hearing pharmacy techs saying that companies are approving almost 100% of the orders. We tried to vote, we tried to protest. This is step 3. And we have seen that is works.
– It’s not complicated. Give us healthcare.
– Health insurance companies take lives in the legal way, through greed and negligence. But when one of the nobility goes down, we’re supposed to cry about it. Cool.
– Sympathy for CEO’s isn’t covered under my United Healthcare plan.
– Luigi is a hero. He took out a mass murderer.
– To leave patients to suffer in pain by denying medication is a form of torture. Denying healthcare is a crime.
– Health over wealth.
With Thompson at the top of UnitedHealthcare, the company’s rate of denials became a focus of investigators in the US Senate, who found UnitedHealthcare turning down more and more claims from some of its sickest patients. The Senate report said: “UnitedHealthcare denial rate for post-acute care surged from 10.9 percent in 2020 to 22.7 percent in 2022.” UnitedHealthcare defends its denial rate, saying it approves and pays about 90% of medical claims.
November 14, 2024: a class action lawsuit is filed against United Healthcare.
UHC is accused of illegally using an AI algorithm to deny rehabilitation care to seriously ill patients.
UHC allegedly knew the algorithm had a high error rate but used it anyways.
The class action suit was filed on behalf of deceased patients who had a UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plan, accusing them of using the computer algorithm to systematically deny claims of Medicare beneficiaries, struggling to recover from debilitating illnesses in nursing homes. UHC claimed it used the algorithm as a guidepost, but internal documents said their goal was to stay within 1% of the AI’s predictions. As a result, UHC’s profits soared.
Thompson had been facing insider trading allegations. A class-action lawsuit filed in May 2024 alleged that he sold $15m of his UnitedHealth Group shares, knowing that the company was reportedly facing an antitrust investigation by the US Department of Justice.
Luigi Mangione was born with a back problem, called spondylolisthesis. In an accident his back was hurt and, reportedly, had a back surgery. A doctor who looked his X ray said that “it was a botched surgery” and the pain in that condition is so unbearable that people wish “to take their own life”. Luigi Mangione reportedly needed a second surgery. Luigi’s manifesto suggested that he was angry with the health care industry. He specifically mentioned United Healthcare, including how the company was massive and their profits were staggering Luigi was critical of all health insurance companies for placing profit ahead of care. He said: “These parasites had it coming. I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.” Luigi occasionally posted messages on a literature focused social media site called Goodreads. He wrote a review for the Manifesto written by Ted Kaczynski, who is also known as the Unabomber. The summary of Luigi’s review: “It’s easy to dismiss the manifesto as the writings of a person with mental illness, in order to avoid facing uncomfortable problems, identified by the work. Ted Kaczynski correctly predicted many aspects of modern society. He was a violent individual who was rightfully imprisoned. However, that doesn’t mean he was mentally ill. A more accurate characterization is that Ted was an extreme political revolutionary.” Luigi copied another review which indicated that when all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. Large companies don’t care about the future and the term violence never solved anything is repeated by violent offenders and those who are afraid. Luigi had interest in books about alternative medicine, psychedelics and recovering from chronic conditions.
The state of New York charged Luigi Mangione in connection with the murder of Brian Thompson. He was charged with second degree murder, second degree possession of a forged instrument, third degree criminal possession of a weapon and two counts of second degree criminal possession of a weapon. In the state of New York second degree murder is similar to what other states designate as first-degree murder. In order to be charged with first-degree murder in New York a crime must involve an aggravating factor like killing a police officer or murder for hire.
Luigi Mangione, 26, has been charged with first-degree murder over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. A Manhattan grand jury indicted Luigi Mangione for murder as an act of terrorism in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to newly released court documents.
The NYPD confirmed that they contacted Kathleen Mangione prior to her son’s arrest to vet a tip from the San Francisco Police Department. She reportedly said the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was “something that she could see him doing.”
Luigi Mangione was extradited to New York, after waiving his right to a hearing, for a hearing over new federal charges against him. Mangione will now face federal charges of stalking, murder through the use of a firearm, and a related gun charge, according to the federal complaint, which could bring the death penalty if he’s convicted. New York does not have the death penalty.
The State will try their case first, then he will be tried at the Federal Court.
Karen Friedman Agnifilo served as Chief Assistant District Attorney of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. As Chief Assistant DA, Ms. Friedman Agnifilo oversees an office of approximately 500 lawyers, 700 support staff and roughly 80,000 cases per year. In addition to overseeing the work of the office, she is also responsible for overseeing all policy related matters including the Office’s Criminal Justice Investment Initiative, which seeks to transform the Criminal Justice System by investing more than $800 million criminal asset forfeiture funds in projects that improve public safety, prevent crime, and promote a fair and efficient justice system.
Ms. Friedman Agnifilo rejoined the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in 2010 as Executive ADA and Chief of the Trial Division, leaving her position as General Counsel to the New York City Mayor’s Criminal Justice Coordinator. In that capacity, she managed multi-agency criminal justice policy initiatives and projects and helped shape New York City’s criminal justice legislative and policy agendas. Her areas of focus have included human trafficking; internet safety; sexual assault; DNA; domestic violence; mental health; technology projects; juvenile justice; identity theft; and fraud. Ms. Friedman Agnifilo previously served for 14 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, including four years as Deputy Chief of the Sex Crimes Unit. She also served in the Homicide Investigation Unit, the Family Violence and Child Abuse Bureau, and the Asian Gang Unit. Ms. Friedman Agnifilo is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and a 1992 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center.
