Luigi Mangione arrested by police as ‘strong person of interest’ in CEO shooting: What we know so far

Law enforcement officials have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was killed early Wednesday morning outside his midtown Manhattan hotel.

The suspect, who was spotted and detained in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, has been identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, according to New York police commissioner Jessica Tisch, who held a news briefing on Monday afternoon. Altoona is about 280 miles from New York City in western Pennsylvania.

According to police, a McDonald’s employee recognized Mangione, whose picture has been circulating along with a $10,000 NYPD and $50,000 FBI reward, and called authorities at about 9:15 a.m.

“He was sitting there eating,” Joseph Kenny, the Police Department’s chief of detectives, said at Monday’s briefing.

Mangione was reportedly carrying a “handwritten manifesto that criticized health care companies for putting profits above care, according to two law enforcement officials,” as reported by the New York Times. When approached by police, he reportedly showed them the same New Jersey fake ID that was used to check into a Manhattan hostel where the CEO shooter allegedly stayed.

Mangione is currently in custody in Pennsylvania on local firearms charges, though he has not been charged with the shooting crime at the time of this writing.

There is no known motive yet in Thompson’s death.

The CEO shooting has been met with a strong response on social media punctuated by jokes about the tragedy, and sparked a nationwide conversation about the current state of the American healthcare system.

On Monday afternoon, social media accounts thought to possibly belong to Mangione were gaining thousands of followers.