Newly released bodycam footage captures the moment police questioned Luigi Mangione inside a Pennsylvania McDonald’s and later strip-searched him following the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
In one recording, officers ask Mangione to lower the face mask he was wearing, apparently to conceal his identity.
“That’s 100 percent him,” one officer says excitedly after stepping outside to speak away from Mangione.
“I told you, man,” another officer replies off camera.
In another scene, an officer searches Mangione’s belongings and breaks into a broad smile after finding a gun cartridge, apparently reinforcing the belief that they had located the suspect.
The collection of videos comes from Mangione’s December 9, 2024, arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He was taken into custody five days after Thompson, a 50-year-old Minnesota executive, was shot dead while walking to a midtown Manhattan hotel for UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor conference.
A Manhattan judge unsealed the recordings on Friday following a petition from CNN seeking their release.
Portions of the footage had already been shown at a December court hearing, where Mangione’s attorneys unsuccessfully argued that key evidence—including his initial statements to police and items seized during his arrest—should be excluded.
Luigi Mangione, 28, pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in August and faces life in prison when he is sentenced in December
Newly released bodycam footage shows Mangione being searched by police in Pennsylvania
Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in August and faces a life sentence when he is sentenced in December.
He also faces murder charges in New York state court. Those proceedings have been postponed indefinitely while his lawyers seek to have the case dismissed.
The footage released Friday begins as officers arrive at the McDonald’s in central Pennsylvania, nearly 300 miles from Manhattan, to investigate a report of a suspicious person.
They find Mangione, an Ivy League-educated heir to a wealthy Maryland family, sitting at a table in a ski hat, surgical mask and winter coat. The officers ask for his name and identification while explaining that they are responding to the suspicious-person call.
“You’re a little nervous right now. Why are you nervous?” one officer asks.
Police instruct Mangione to place his hands on his head and question him about whether he had recently been in New York. They also challenge him over a fraudulent New Jersey driver’s license he presented in the name Mark Rosario.
“You’re under official police investigation right now,” one officer warns. “You give a false name to us again, you’re gonna be arrested for false ID.”
After Mangione eventually acknowledged his identity, officers asked him why he had lied to them.
The young man was later seen in handcuffs inside a police station
“That’s 100 percent him,” one officer said after Mangione was found inside the McDonald’s
‘I clearly shouldn’t have,’ he responded as he was asked to write his real name and spell it aloud.
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Other videos show officers patting Mangione down, reading him his rights, placing him in cuffs and taking him to the police station.
As an officer searched him more thoroughly at the station, another officer went through his backpack.
The officer found the 9mm handgun authorities would later confirm was used in the killing, as well as a silencer and another ammo magazine.
They also recovered the journal that prosecutors would later say revealed Mangione’s intent to ‘whack’ a health insurance executive, as well as his other handwritten notes.
‘He has a checklist for today,’ another officer said, ticking off the seized items to someone on the phone. ‘Tomorrow he’s supposed to do an intel check-in and get a survival kit.’
In August, the 28-year-old admitted why he killed the healthcare CEO.
The killer claimed ‘severe’ back pain drove him to pose as an investor with over $50 billion and shoot the CEO dead.
Footage also showed him arrest inside a Pennsylvania McDonald’s after he gave them a fake ID
Mangione said in court in August that he killed Brian Thompson after years of severe backpain
‘I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died,’ Mangione testified in August
As he spoke in Manhattan Federal Court, Mangione laid bare his plan to target Thompson.
He told the court: ‘After years of enduring severe pain from a broken back, navigating the obstacles of the health insurance system and witnessing similar experiences of countless others, I learned that UnitedHealthcare would be holding its annual investor conference in New York City on December 4, 2024, although the specific location was not publicly disclosed.
‘I then searched the event online. I observed that the annual conference of America’s largest health care organization and the stated mission to make health – excuse me – with the stated mission to make the health system work better for everyone, would be attended by company executives, the board of directors, and hundreds of investors, not doctors, nurses, and patients.’
Mangione went on to reveal how he got Thompson’s location and acquired the murder weapon.
He said: ‘In November of 2024, I traveled from outside of New York State to Manhattan. I then emailed UnitedHealthcare leadership posing as an investor at a firm managing over $50 billion in assets and requesting information about the conference.
‘Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour. Before traveling to New York, I used a 3D printer to make part of a gun, and I equipped the gun with the silencer and magazine. My travel to New York and email to UnitedHealthcare was with the intent to shoot Brian Thompson.’
Mangione concluded: ‘On the morning of December 4, 2024, I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died. When I did so, I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death or serious bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal.’
The federal stalking charges he admitted to carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.
His sentencing hearing has been scheduled for December 18.
Our News Outlet reached out to Mangione’s attorney for comment.
