United Healthcare CEO Shooting Who Is Person of Interest Luigi Mangione

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00:00We have a strong person of interest in the shooting that shook our city last week.

00:10Officers recovered a handwritten document that speaks to both his motivation and mindset.

00:16A cryptic countdown with the message,

00:19if you see this, I'm already under arrest, is all that appears on Luigi Mangione's

00:24alleged YouTube channel, posted mere hours after he was taken into custody

00:29following the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare's CEO.

00:33Members of the Altoona Police Department arrested Luigi Mangione,

00:38a 26-year-old male, on firearms charges. At this time, he is believed to be our person of interest

00:46in the brazen, targeted murder of Brian Thompson.

00:49The simple message, the first of maybe more clips claimed to have been scheduled

00:53prior to his arrest. Here's some bullet points of what we know for now.

00:59The suspect was in a McDonald's and was recognized by an employee who then called local police.

01:06Responding officers questioned the suspect, who was acting suspiciously

01:10and was carrying multiple fraudulent IDs, as well as a U.S. passport.

01:15Officers recovered a firearm on his person,

01:18as well as a suppressor, both consistent with the weapon used in the murder.

01:23Before he was a person of interest in Brian Thompson's death,

01:27People reports Luigi was valedictorian at his private school.

01:31He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania

01:34with his multiple degrees for engineering and computer science.

01:38He was born and raised in Maryland, and his last known address was Honolulu, Hawaii.

01:44He has no prior arrest history in New York.

01:46NYPD releasing these images amid their manhunt for the CEO's killer,

01:51who's turning the online discourse surrounding his alleged crimes into a frenzy.

01:56Colin Jost calling out the convos on Saturday Night Live.

02:00And it really says something about America that a guy was murdered in cold blood.

02:04And the two main reactions were, yeah, well, health care stinks.

02:09And also, girl, that shooter hot.

02:11Members of the NYPD Detective Bureau are currently traveling to Pennsylvania

02:15with members of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to interview this subject.