Newly released police body-camera footage captures the moment Luigi Mangione was questioned and strip-searched inside a Pennsylvania McDonald’s following the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
In one recording, officers ask Mangione to pull down the face mask he was using to conceal his identity.
“That’s 100 percent him,” one officer says excitedly before stepping outside to speak beyond Mangione’s hearing.
“I told you, man,” another officer replies off camera.
In a later scene, an officer searches Mangione’s belongings and breaks into a broad smile after finding a gun cartridge, apparently reinforcing the belief that police had located their 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 as he walked toward a Midtown Manhattan hotel for UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor conference.
A Manhattan judge unsealed the recordings Friday after CNN petitioned the court to make them public.
New bodycam footage showed Mangione being searched by police in Pennsylvania.
Videos show Mangione’s arrest at McDonald’s
Portions of the footage were previously shown at a December court hearing, where Mangione’s attorneys unsuccessfully argued that key evidence should be excluded. That evidence included his initial statements to police and items seized during his arrest.
Mangione pleaded guilty in August to federal stalking charges and is facing a potential life sentence when he is sentenced in December.
He is also charged with murder in New York state court. Those proceedings have been delayed indefinitely while his lawyers try to persuade the court to dismiss the case.
The body-camera videos begin as officers converge on the McDonald’s in central Pennsylvania, roughly 300 miles from Manhattan.
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 explain that they are responding to a report of a suspicious person before asking for his name and identification.
“You’re a little nervous right now. Why are you nervous?” one officer asks.
Police tell him to place his hands on his head and question him about whether he has recently been in New York. They also challenge him over a fraudulent New Jersey driver’s license he had provided, which carried the name Mark Rosario.
The young man was later seen handcuffed inside a police station.
“That’s 100 percent him,” one officer said enthusiastically after Mangione was found inside the McDonald’s.
Police find gun and journal in Mangione’s backpack
“You’re under official police investigation right now,” an officer warns him. “You give a false name to us again, you’re gonna be arrested for false ID.”
After Mangione eventually disclosed his real identity, officers asked him why he had lied to them.
“I clearly shouldn’t have,” he replied before being instructed to write down and spell his real name aloud.
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.’
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.
Pictured: Brian Thompson.
Mangione reveals motive and murder plan
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.
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.
@thecrimedesk Some of Luigi Mangione’s friends have spoken out in support of the young man after he admitted last week to fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The 28-year-old confessed in federal court on Friday to gunning down Thompson, 50, in New York City as the healthcare executive walked to a conference on December 4, 2024. #LuigiMangione
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Mangione admits posing as investor
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.
The Daily Mail reached out to Mangione’s attorney for comment.
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