UnitedHealthcare killing suspect Luigi Mangione indicted on death penalty-eligible charges

By MICHAEL R SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK AP Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty Related Articles Florida State gunman used deputy mom s former utility weapon to kill and wound functionaries say Google s digital ad system declared an illegal monopoly joining its search engine in penalty box The Menendez brothers bid for a shorter sentence and attainable parole is delayed again Can the Trump administration intervene on Colorado s new gun-control law Republicans hope so Wall Street is mixed after UnitedHealth s worst drop in decades offsets gains for the greater part US stocks The indictment returned by a grand jury in Manhattan federal court also charges Mangione with two counts of stalking and a firearms count It was not at once clear when the -year-old Mangione will be arraigned A message seeking comment was left for a spokesperson for his lawyers Mangione an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family also faces separate state murder charges He s accused of shooting Thompson in the back outside a Manhattan hotel on Dec as the executive arrived for UnitedHealthcare s annual investor conference U S Attorney General Pam Bondi broadcasted this month that she had directed federal prosecutors in Manhattan to seek the death penalty following through on the president s campaign promise to vigorously pursue capital punishment It s the first death penalty scenario sought by the Justice Department since President Donald Trump returned to office in January with a vow to resume federal executions after they were halted under the previous administration The killing and ensuing five-day manhunt leading to Mangione s arrest rattled the business district with particular robustness insurers hastily switching to remote work or online shareholder meetings It also galvanized robustness insurance critics chosen of whom have rallied around Mangione as a stand-in for frustrations over coverage denials and hefty medicinal bills Surveillance video displayed a masked gunman shooting Thompson from behind Police say the words delay deny and depose were scrawled on the ammunition mimicking a phrase commonly used to describe how insurers avoid paying indicates