Luigi Mangione’s mother spoke to police a day before the suspect’s arrest, telling them that the brutal killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson “may have been something he could see himself doing.”
Last month, Mangione’s mother reported her son missing to San Francisco police, saying she hadn’t spoken to him since July.
California investigators believe they know Mangione after the New York Police Department (NYPD) released photos of the suspect in Thompson’s murder, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
Kenny said the investigators then called Mangione’s mother and asked her if the suspect might be the one the police were hunting for her son.
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Police contacted Luigi Mangione’s mother just one day before he was arrested in Pennsylvania. (Fox News)
“They had a conversation where he didn’t show that it was his son in the picture, but he said it might be something he saw him doing,” said Kenny at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
Kenny said the phone conversation happened “very late” on Dec. 7. Mangione, an Ivy League-educated computer programmer, was photographed on December 9 at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Mangione is being held in Pennsylvania as authorities work to bring him back to New York.
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Luigi Mangione’s mother told police that Brian Thompson’s murder “could have been something she saw him do.” (Fox Stories)
On Tuesday, Mangione was indicted by a New York grand jury.
Mangione is now charged with murder, two counts of murder, seven counts of possession of a weapon of various degrees and possession of a forged iron, all charges.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg called it a “senseless, targeted and planned shooting.”
Mangione is due back in court Thursday.
Luigi Mangione, 26, is charged with first degree murder in New York in the December 4 killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson. (David Dee Delagado of Fox News Digital/Businesswire)
Sources tell Fox News Mangione does not plan to fight and appear in court Thursday in Pennsylvania. If that ends up being the case, he could be back in New York that same day.
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Mangione, 26, is accused of sneaking up behind Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel as the victim, who lives in Minnesota, was on his way to a shareholders meeting on a December morning.
It is alleged that he then shot and killed Thompson in the hideout of the extortion system caught on surveillance video.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
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