A 26-year-old man arrested Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, is believed to be the person of interest in last week’s fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, the New York Police Department commissioner said.
Luigi Mangione was arrested on firearms charges in a McDonald’s restaurant after an employee thought he looked like the person of interest in Thompson’s “brazen, targeted murder,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference.
Mangione, who has no known prior arrests, was in possession of a ghost gun — meaning it was put together with parts sold online — that matches the gun believed to have been used in the shooting, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.
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