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Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was hit with a murder charge late Monday, court records show — as his family broke their silence over his
arrest. Manhattan prosecutors filed the second-degree murder rap and a slew of other weapons charges against the 26-year-old, according to an online court docket — just hours after he was
arraigned in a Pennsylvania court on weapons and forgery offenses. Mangione was captured in Altoona, Pa., Monday morning after he was spotted eating at a McDonald’s by a customer of the fast
food restaurant who believed he resembled the gunman wanted in last week’s brazen shooting outside a Manhattan hotel. EXPLORE MORE The suspect — an Ivy League graduate from a prominent
Maryland real estate family — was found carrying a ghost gun, fake IDs and rambling writings linking him to the ambush, authorities said. Mangione, who remains jailed in Pennsylvania, was
ordered held without bail during a brief Pennsylvania court hearing Monday night after he was charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to
police. The new charges he’s since been slapped with by Manhattan prosecutors include the murder charge, three gun raps and forgery, the records show. Authorities had earlier said they
expected murder charges to be filed in New York in the coming days. The developments came as Mangione’s family broke their silence, issuing a statement saying they were “shocked and
devastated” in the wake of his arrest. “We are devastated by this news,” the family said in a statement posted on X. “Unfortunately, we cannot comment on news reports regarding Luigi
Mangione. We only know what we have read in the media. Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” they continued. “We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we
ask people to pray for all involved.” Thompson, 50, was killed last Wednesday as he walked alone to a Midtown hotel, where UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group, was holding
its annual investor conference, cops said. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE SHOOTING OF UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO BRIAN THOMPSON * Brian Thompson, the CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was gunned
down Wednesday outside a luxury Midtown hotel in a “brazen, targeted attack,” police said. * Thompson was named CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one
of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Department of Justice. * Thompson’s wife, Paulette, said her husband had been getting threats before he was killed. *
Thompson’s shooting led to sick support online, and even spurred a tasteless lookalike competition in NYC. * A person of interest has been nabbed by police officers inside a McDonald’s in
Altoona, Pa. * The suspect has been identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, originally from Towson, Md. He’s an Ivy League graduate who hated the medical community. FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE POST’S
LIVE UPDATES ON THE NEWS SURROUNDING BRIAN THOMPSON’S MURDER. In the days after the shooting, the NYPD released a handful of surveillance images of the suspect and footage of the brazen
attack as a desperate manhunt for him unfolded. Photos taken in the lobby of a hostel on the Upper West Side showed the suspect grinning after removing his mask, police said. The tipster who
alerted cops to Mangione’s whereabouts on Monday recognized him from one of the images, cops said.