Around a year after the killing of the CEO of a health insurer in New York, a video shows the moment before the alleged murderer Luigi Mangione was arrested a few days after the crime.
Dec 10, 2025, 3:42 amDec 10, 2025, 05:43
It was shown at the preliminary hearings in the trial in New York, as several American media reported.
Luigi Mangione initially gave a false name.Image: keystone
The video, which was broadcast by CBS, shows Mangione sitting at a table in a fast food restaurant with a brown bag of food in front of him. The 27-year-old wears a hat and face mask that covers his mouth and nose. A police officer, filmed by a body camera, approaches him and asks him to take off his mask. Mangione remains outwardly calm and takes off his mask.
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Suspect shows fake ID
The officer asks his name, Mangione answers “Mark.” When asked about his last name, he replied: “Rosario”. When the officer asks for identification, Mangione hands him a fake ID. Shortly afterwards he was arrested anyway. The officers had responded to an emergency call. Several customers recognized the fugitive.
He is accused of deliberately shooting the head of the billion-dollar US health insurer United Healthcare, Brian Thompson, on a street in the New York borough of Manhattan on December 4, 2024.
The crime, which was filmed by surveillance cameras, and the public manhunt made headlines around the world. The shooter initially fled on a bicycle and then disappeared. Five days later, Mangione was arrested as a suspect in the restaurant in the city of Altoona, Pennsylvania. After the crime, there was an unusually large number of expressions of sympathy for the alleged shooter in the USA. Millions of Americans despair of their country’s expensive healthcare system.
Accused multiple times
At the preliminary hearings in New York, the defense wants to ensure that a weapon found in a backpack when he was arrested and some of his statements cannot be used as evidence in court.
Mangione is currently facing trial.Image: keystone
The preliminary discussions relate to an indictment by the state of New York against Mangione. He also faces federal and Pennsylvania charges including murder, stalking and weapons-related offenses. US Attorney General Pam Bondi had called for the death penalty for him, and his defense criticized this interference as “blatantly political.” Mangione had previously pleaded not guilty to all charges. (sda/dpa)