Luigi Mangione ID'd as person of interest in shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

Police are questioning 26-year-old Luigi Mangione in Altoona, Pennsylvania, as a person of interest in connection with the brazen Midtown Manhattan murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, according to authorities.

Mangione, from Maryland, has been arrested by Altoona police on unrelated gun charges, according to authorities. Officials said he also has ties to San Francisco, California, and was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His last known address was in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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The man was on a Greyhound bus traveling through Altoona on Monday morning, sources said, when he got off and walked into a McDonald's where a witness recognized him from the images of the suspect circulated by police.

When Mangione was spotted at the McDonald's, he appeared to be wearing clothing similar to what he was seen wearing in videos obtained by detectives in Manhattan, according to two law enforcement sources.

Mangione was sitting and eating when a McDonald's employee reported him, and "because of that, we believe we have a strong person of interest," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference Monday.