Posted on: December 10, 2024, 12:54h.
Last updated on: December 10, 2024, 12:54h.
Today’s news on the fast-moving Manhattan shooting investigation front – suspect Luigi Mangione was found with “written admissions” about the shooting, according to Forbes reporting.
Manifesto
The early morning assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of Manhattan last week, the ensuing widespread search for the shooter, then the arrest of Mangione yesterday at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, followed last night by the formal charging of the 26-year-old for the murder, has swept up the country.
The New York Times noted via an obtained internal NYPD report that a manifesto was found on Mangione when he was arrested at the restaurant, where Mangione “appeared to view the targeted killing of the company’s highest-ranking representative as a symbolic takedown and a direct challenge to its alleged corruption and ‘power games,’ asserting in his note he is the ‘first to face it with such brutal honesty.’”
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