A notebook found on Luigi Mangione comprises an outline of the CEO’s killing that matches details of his alleged murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York last week, NBC News reported Wednesday.
“What are you doing?” – says a fraction of the notebook.
“You defrauded the CEO at the annual parasitic bean count convention,” the notebook says. “It is targeted, precise and poses no risk to innocent people.”
The notebook was found when the Ivy League graduate was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, by police who found a gun, a silencer and ammunition in a backpack he was carrying with him at an area McDonald’s.
The weapon matched three shell casings found outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan, where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on December 4, New York police said Wednesday.
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch also revealed that fingerprints taken from Mangione matched prints on a water bottle and a Kind bar left near the shooting scene. Last week, police said the then-unidentified gunman who murdered Thompson bought water and protein bars before the shooting.
Thompson, a father of two, was scheduled to talk at a Dec. 4 investor day hosted by his company’s parent company at the Hilton Hotel.
Surveillance footage of Thompson’s murder shows a masked man firing a gun that appears to be attached to a silencer at the CEO from behind, just outside the Hilton Hotel, while one other person stands nearby.
Hours after Thompson’s murder, Tisch told reporters: “I want to be clear: everything at this point indicates that this was a premeditated, pre-planned and targeted attack.”
It was previously reported that Mangione also had a handwritten note on him that read, partially, “These parasites just did it,” when he was arrested in Altoona.
The note, which said he “didn’t work with anyone,” also said, “I’m sorry for any arguments or trauma, but we had to do it.”
The memo criticized UnitedHealthcare, the American health care industry and corporations.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson (left) and Luigi Mangione (right).
Source: UnitedHealthcare (L) | NYPD(R)
Mangione, who holds two degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, has reportedly suffered from severe back pain for years.
UnitedHealthcare, the largest private health care payer in the U.S., has faced criticism for denying customer claims.
Mangione is being held without bail in Pennsylvania on firearms and forgery charges stemming from his arrest. The forgery charge pertains to his alleged possession of several false identification documents, including one which was allegedly used to examine right into a hostel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side nearly two weeks before Thompson’s murder.
He is charged with murder and gun crimes in Manhattan.
At a hearing Tuesday in Blair County Court, Mangione refused to waive extradition to New York to face charges in Thompson’s murder.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said they’d file documents required for a judge in Pennsylvania to come to a decision whether to issue an extradition order for Mangione.
.
