Newly released video shows the moment police approached Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, on the day of his arrest last December.
The bodycam footage shows Altoona Police Officer Joseph Detwiler approach and ask Mangione, 27, to reveal his full face while he was sitting at a table at a McDonald’s restaurant. Mangione, who was wanted in New York City and previously captured on surveillance footage, quickly complied, but told the officer his name as ‘Mark Rosario.’
“Someone called, they thought you were suspicious,” Detwiler told Mangione, to which he replied, “Oh, I’m sorry, um.”
McDonald’s customers said they recognized Mangione from his distinctive eyebrows, which were shown prominently in the wanted bulletins and previous footage shared by New York authorities. Detwiler then told Mangione that a caller “thought you looked like someone” and asked him to show ID.
Mangione handed over a New Jersey ID with his face on it that included the fake name ‘Mark Rosario.’ Detwiler handed over the ID card to Officer Tyler Frye, who recorded the footage, who relayed the information back over the radio to the Altoona Police Department.
Mangione had previously pleaded not guilty to nine state charges, as well as four federal accounts, which include the possibility of the death penalty. Judge Gregory Carro had previously thrown out charges of murder in the first degree as an act of terrorism and murder in the second degree, but kept the second-degree murder charge in September.
Mangione, who is an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family, was found carrying a ghost gun, masks and a manifesto linked to the incident at the time of his arrest, authorities confirmed.
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