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New York prosecutors have charged Ivy League graduate Luigi Mangione with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, court records show.
The charge came hours after Mangione was arraigned in a Pennsylvania court on weapons and other charges related to his arrest early Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Mangione is accused of fatally shooting Thompson while the CEO was addressing an investor meeting for UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of his health insurance giant.

New York prosecutors on Monday charged Ivy League graduate Luigi Mangione with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, court records show.

The charge came hours after Mangione was arraigned in a Pennsylvania court on weapons and other charges related to his arrest early Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Mangione, 26, was charged with murder, criminal possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a silencer and possession of a forged instrument in New York state court in Manhattan on Monday night, according to a court filing.

The University of Pennsylvania graduate is accused of fatally shooting Thompson last Wednesday morning outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan.

Thompson, a father of two, was addressing an investor meeting for UnitedHealth Group, which owns his company.

UnitedHealthcare is the largest private health insurer in the United States, with more than $200 billion in annual revenue.

Thompson’s family held a private funeral for him in Minnesota early Monday, while Mangione was being detained and questioned by Altoona police.

Police said a backpack belonging to Mangione was found to contain a handgun, a silencer and multiple rounds of 9mm ammunition after he gave officers a fake New Jersey ID believed to be the same one he used to check into a Manhattan shelter at the end of November. .

Mangione, who comes from a wealthy Baltimore-area family, is being held without bail in a Pennsylvania jail on charges in that state related to the gun and fake IDs he was carrying.