CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione to be arraigned on state murder charges Monday [View all]
Source: USA Today
Published 11:18 a.m. ET Dec. 21, 2024 | Updated 11:18 a.m. ET Dec. 21, 2024
Luigi Mangione is set to appear in court in New York on Monday for arraignment on state murder charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office said it was coordinating with federal authorities, who are currently holding the 26-year-old shooting suspect at a detention center in Brooklyn. A time for the arraignment was not yet announced.
Mangione had been expected to face arraignment on the state charges Thursday, but the proceedings were postponed after federal authorities announced they were also bringing charges, and he was whisked to a federal courthouse instead in a move that appeared to shock Mangione's defense team.
" (I)n over three decades of prosecuting and defending criminal cases in New York, frankly, I've never seen anything like that what is happening here," Mangione's attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said in court, also calling it "very confusing, highly unusual."
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