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Agence France-Presse

The man charged with brazenly gunning down a top health insurance CEO in New York carried a handwritten manifesto of grievances against the industry, police said Tuesday, giving a possible motive for the first time.
Luigi Mangione, 26, yelled and struggled with officers as he was led into court in Pennsylvania wearing an orange jumpsuit, for a hearing on extraditing him back to New York.
He is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street last week, triggering a nationwide manhunt that ended Monday when he was recognised at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Mangione fought his extradition to New York, a complaint which Blair County prosecutor Peter Weeks described as creating “more hoops … to jump through”, and a judge denied him bail as the process continues.

The defence lawyers now have 14 days to submit motions against moving Mangione to New York, Weeks said.
Defence lawyer Thomas Dickey maintained his client’s innocence, saying he had seen “zero” evidence that Mangione was the shooter.
The suspect, who attended the elite University of Pennsylvania and reportedly comes from a wealthy family, could be heard shouting “unjust” and “an insult to the intelligence of the American people” as officers bundled him out of a car and into court.
The revelation of a manifesto carried by Mangione appears to back up the theory that he was angered by the complex, costly and at times dysfunctional US healthcare system.
“I had an opportunity to read the manifesto,” the New York Police Department’s Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said on the Good Morning America TV show.
“It’s handwritten. He does make some indication that he’s frustrated with the healthcare system in the United States.”

Kenny said Mangione decried how the US healthcare system is among the most expensive in the world and yet the country has a lower life expectancy than other developed nations.
“He was writing a lot about his disdain for corporate American and in particular the healthcare industry,” said Kenny.
The New York criminal complaint alleges Mangione was found with “written admissions about the crime” but contains no further detail.
Police have not confirmed reports the words “delay” and “deny” – language used by insurers to reject claims – were written on bullet casings found at the scene.
Investigators interrogated Mangione over last week’s murder which triggered global headlines and sent shock waves through the American business sector.
He appeared at a Pennsylvania court wearing a dark sweatshirt late Monday and was led inside by Altoona police, flanked by New York detectives.

Mangione was later charged in New York on suspicion of one count of murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and other offences.
He is next due to appear in court on December 23, and has yet to enter a plea.
The White House condemned the shooting.
“Obviously, this is horrific. Violence to combat any sort of corporate greed is unacceptable,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told a briefing when asked about the grievances aired by Mangione.
The suspect was apprehended by officers following a tip from staff at the McDonald’s, where he was found wearing a mask and a beanie while using a laptop, and gave officers a fake ID, charging documents show.
They then searched him and found what police called a “ghost gun” capable of firing 9mm rounds and equipped with a suppressor that could have been made on a 3D printer.

When officers asked if he had been to New York recently, Mangione “became quiet and started to shake,” according to the criminal complaint.
One of the fake IDs found was one used to check in to a Manhattan hostel ahead of the attack, police said.
Mangione appeared to have health issues, living with serious back pain and undergoing surgery for the condition last year, according to a New York Times report quoting friends.
A photo on what appeared to be one of his social media accounts featured an X-ray of a spine with a medical implant.


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Luigi Mangione arrives for an extradition hearing at Blair County Court House in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Photo: Reuters

Luigi Mangione in a booking photograph. Photo: Altoona Police Department via Reuters

An image from surveillance video of the shooting. Photo: NYPD via Reuters

Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Photo: Business Wire via TNS

Luigi Mangione at a McDonald’s in Altoona on Monday. Photos: Pennsylvania State Police via AP

Suspect Luigi Mangione, 26, arrives for his arraignment at Blair County Court House in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Photo: FOX News Channel via Reuters

 Luigi Mangione in an undated photo: Photo: Luigi Mangione/Facebook via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa 

Luigi Mangione graduated from a private all-boys school in Baltimore as valedictorian in 2016. File photo: Nicole Munchel/The Baltimore Sun/TNS

Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, who was shot and killed in New York. Photo: Business Wire via TNS

Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski. File photo: AP

Suspect in killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson charged with murder in New York

A booking photo of suspect Luigi Mangione. Photo: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections via AP

Surveillance footage captured the shooting in Manhattan last week. Photo: NYPD via Reuters 

Luigi Mangione, 26, in a cell in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Photo: Altoona Police Department via Reuters

The McDonald’s restaurant where police arrested Luigi Mangione. Photo: EPA-EFE

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killing exposes frustrations with US medical system

Police have released this image of the suspected shooter in the slaying of UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompson. Photo: NYPD via TNS

The late Brian Thompson was CEO of UnitedHealthcare and father of two teenage sons. Photo: TNS

Flags fly at half-mast outside the office of UnitedHealthcare on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

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Handwritten document could indicate for the first time a possible motive for the murder of UnitedHealthcare chief Brian Thompson


Handwritten document could indicate for the first time a possible motive for the murder of UnitedHealthcare chief Brian Thompson.


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