Prosecutors in New York City have publicized the 911 call from Pennsylvania that played a crucial role in the apprehension of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
In the recording, a McDonald’s manager, whose identity remains confidential, detailed a suspicious individual. The person in question was wearing a black hooded jacket, with a hat pulled low over his face, and carrying a bag from either CVS or Walgreens while dining at a table near the restroom.
“I’m a manager at the Plank Road McDonald’s on the boulevard,” she informed the dispatcher. “There’s a customer here that other patrons find suspicious because he resembles the shooter of the CEO in New York.”
Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League alumnus facing charges of murdering the head of the nation’s top healthcare company on a sidewalk in Midtown, appeared again in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. (Steven Hirsch for New York Post via Pool)
As the five-minute conversation drew to a close, the dispatcher advised the manager to remain calm and alert.
“I have an officer en route,” the dispatcher assured. “Keep an eye on him, and if he decides to leave, please call us back immediately, OK?”
The recording was played in court for the first time earlier this week as part of an evidence suppression hearing that stretched on for days. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office released it Thursday evening.
Luigi Mangione allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group via AP)
Mangione returns to court Friday for more of the hearing. His lawyers are asking the judge to suppress evidence taken from his backpack after his arrest as well as statements he made during the McDonald’s incident and to jail guards in the following days.
While they raised Fourth and Fifth Amendment concerns, prosecutors have dismissed their claims, arguing that police acted lawfully and appropriately, that the warrantless search of his bag after his arrest was routine and legal and that the only relevant non-Mirandized statement he made was to allegedly give officers a fake name when he showed them a phony ID.
In addition to murder and other charges in New York and federal court, Mangione faces firearms and fake ID charges in Pennsylvania. (Southern District of New York)
Officers are allowed to ask someone’s name without reading them a Miranda warning, legal experts say.
Other evidence prosecutors made public Thursday included photos of Mangione’s personal effects, thousands of dollars in cash and his MacBook laptop.
