Published on: December 10, 2024, 12:54h.
Last updated on: December 10, 2024, 12:54h.
Latest update on the rapidly evolving Manhattan shooting investigation – individual named Luigi Mangione detained with “written admissions” regarding the shooting, as per Forbes report.
Manifesto
Early morning assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Manhattan streets last week, subsequent extensive search for the shooter, followed by Mangione’s arrest at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania and formal charging of the 26-year-old for the murder last night, has captured the nation’s attention.
New York Times reported that a manifesto was discovered on Mangione upon his arrest at the restaurant, where he “seemed to see the targeted killing of the company’s top representative as a symbolic takedown and a direct challenge to its supposed corruption and ‘power games,’ stating in his note that he is the ‘first to confront it with such brutal honesty.'”
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