Luigi Mangione has been charged with first-degree murder in New York for the alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, the Manhattan district attorney announced on Tuesday.
Alvin Bragg said that the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, who was last week arrested by local police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, had been formally indicted on one count of murder in the first degree “in furtherance of terrorism”.
He was also charged with two counts of murder in the second degree, one of which was charged as a “killing as an act of terrorism”. In addition, Mangione is facing several lesser charges, including criminal possession of a weapon.
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