Luigi Mangione’s Mom Told Cops She Could ‘See Him’ Killing a CEO
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny confirmed in a press conference Tuesday that authorities contacted Luigi Mangione’s mother, Kathleen Mangione, two days before he was arrested.
She reportedly said the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was “something that she could see him doing.”
On Dec. 13, the New York Field Office of the FBI confirmed that they received a tip from the San Francisco Police Department about the possible identity of the suspect in Thompson’s killing.
The tip was tied to a missing persons report Kathleen Mangione reportedly filed in San Francisco on Nov. 18, law enforcement told ABC News. While it’s unclear if her son was supposed to be in the city at the time, officials said that he had “ties to San Francisco.”
The FBI proceeded to pass on the tip to the NYPD to assist them with the case. Kenny confirmed the aforementioned tip during Tuesday’s press conference, and said that after receiving the tip from the SFPD, they reached out to Mangione’s mother on Dec. 7 to assess it.
An investigator said Luigi Mangione’s mom told them the UnitedHealthcare shooting “might be something that she could see him doing." MORE: https://t.co/wib7ghavvA pic.twitter.com/aNuxDub7KR
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In their conversation, Kenny said that Kathleen “didn’t indicate that it was her son in the photograph” but added that “it might be something that she could see him doing.”
Authorities previously claimed that when Mangione was arrested on Dec. 9 at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, he had not been on their radar.
“This was not a name that was called in to us,” New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told TODAY on Dec. 10.
The 26-year-old is currently being held without bail in Pennsylvania, where he faces charges of forgery, carrying firearms without a license, and providing false identification to law enforcement, among others.
A grand jury in Manhattan also indicted Mangione Tuesday for one count of first-degree murder in furtherance of an act of terrorism, and two counts of murder in the second-degree—one of which has been charged as “killing as an act of terrorism.” He also faces several charges for the criminal possession of a weapon.
