UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Suspect Contests Extradition Back to New York

TIME

The suspect arrested in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week has been identified as Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from Towson, Maryland.

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00:00Our intention is to just place a detainer on him once we secure extradition and send

00:18him to New York.

00:19We do not intend to delay this defendant's extradition to New York and we certainly,

00:27we've indicated this to New York, their prosecution should take precedence and then ours will

00:32follow.

00:33So, certainly, our office will communicate with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office

00:39and each of us communicate with our respective state-level governments and it's the state-level

00:46governments that work with each other, execute the governor's warrant, which sometimes can

00:52take approximately 30 days, plus or minus a little bit.

00:56I will say that those wheels have already started moving in this case, so I'm hopeful

01:00we can get that accomplished quickly.

01:03The Blair County charges are still active.

01:05We intend on prosecuting them, but we also intend on cooperating with the New York City

01:11Police Department and the Manhattan DA's office.

01:14We've already indicated to them that we believe their charges take precedence and we'll do

01:19what's necessary to accommodate their prosecution first.

01:22This defendant now has two dockets in Blair County.

01:25One docket will go away once he is extradited and that is his fugitive from justice charge

01:31and the judge denied bail on that until, obviously, the judge makes a ruling on any defense motions

01:37at which time we anticipate the state of New York will be able to collect the defendant.

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