Luigi Mangione Indicted on 4 Federal Charges in Killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson
If convicted, the 26-year-old alleged shooter could face the death penalty
Luigi Mangione has been indicted on four federal charges in the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
On Wednesday, April 17, a federal grand jury indicted Mangione, 26, of two counts of stalking, one count of murder through use of a firearm and a firearms offense for an allegation that he used a silencer, per NBC News.
Mangione was previously indicted on multiple state charges in New York and Pennsylvania. He was arrested on Dec. 9 on suspicion of committing the crime at a McDonald’s in rural Altoona, Penn., with an alleged manifesto and silencer on his person. Thompson, 50, was killed outside of the Hilton in Midtown Manhattan five days earlier on Dec. 4, 2024.
The federal charge of murder with a firearm carries a maximum sentence of the death penalty, if convicted. Attorney General Pam Bondi already stated her intent to seek the death penalty, per an April 1 press release. Bondi previously called the shooting of Thompson a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination.”
