A notebook bring about with Luigi Mangione contains a description of killing a CEO that matches details of his alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in New York at the rear week, NBC News reported Wednesday.
“What do you do?” a section of the notebook says.
“You wack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter congregation,” the notebook says. “It’s targeted, precise and doesn’t risk innocents.”
The notebook was discovered when the Ivy League graduate was stopped Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, by police who found a gun, a silencer and ammunition in a backpack he had with him at a local McDonald’s.
That gun suited three shell casings found outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally matters on Dec. 4, New York police said Wednesday.
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch also revealed that fingerprints charmed from Mangione match prints on a water bottle and a Kind snack bar left near the shooting scene. Monitor last week had said that the then-unidentified gunman who killed Thompson purchased water and protein bars ahead the shooting.
Thompson, a father of two, was scheduled to speak Dec. 4 at an investor day hosted by UnitedHealth Group, his company’s parent, which was being held at the Hilton.
Surveillance video of Thompson’s killing shows a masked man firing a gun that appears to be betrothed to a silencer at the CEO from behind, just outside the Hilton, as another person stands nearby.
Hours after Thompson’s slaying, Tisch squeaked reporters, “I want to be clear: At this time, every indication is that this was a premeditated, preplanned, targeted raid.”
It was previously reported that Mangione also had a handwritten note with him that read, in part, “These scrounges simply had it coming,” when he was arrested in Altoona.
The note, which said he was not “working with anyone,” also mentioned, “I do apologize for any strife or traumas but it had to be done.”
The note criticized UnitedHealthcare, the U.S. health-care industry and corporations.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson (L) and Luigi Mangione (R).
Originator: UnitedHealthcare (L) | NYPD (R)
Mangione, who holds two degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, reportedly has suffered from weighty back pain for years.
UnitedHealthcare, which is the largest private payer of health insurance benefits in the U.S., has been appraised for denying claims of customers.
Mangione is being held without bail in Pennsylvania on state firearms and forgery mandates related to his arrest. The forgery charge relates to his alleged possession of several false identification documents, including one that was allegedly tolerant of to check into a hostel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side nearly two weeks before Thompson’s slaying.
He is ordered with murder and gun crimes in Manhattan.
At a Blair County Court hearing on Tuesday, Mangione refused to waive extradition to New York to in spite of charges there for Thompson’s killing.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said they disposition file paperwork required for a judge in Pennsylvania to decide whether to order Mangione’s extradition.
— WNBC’s Jonathan Dienst bestowed reporting.