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What we know about the shooting
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Luigi Mangione has been
charged with murder
in New York in
the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
, who was shot and killed on a Manhattan street Wednesday.
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Mangione, 26,
was arrested this morning in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and had a gun similar to the one used in the shooting, a silencer and a fake ID, police said.
- Police said that after a McDonald’s employee recognized him, he was questioned by police and that when he was asked whether he had recently been to New York, he “became quiet and started to shake.”
- Officers recovered a handwritten document that speaks to both his motivation and mindset, police said. Two senior law enforcement officials told NBC News that the document refers to the health care industry.
- Thompson’s killing stirred renewed discourse and criticism of the American health insurance industry.
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