Luigi Mangione seen eating McDonald’s in new photos as CEO shooter family bombshell revealed: Live updates

Luigi Mangione was seen eating a hash brown at McDonald’s just before he was arrested for murdering Brian Thompson.

The alleged CEO shooter was snapped eating the fried treat with his mask down at the fast food restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, just before he was arrested Monday morning.

Another photo taken in the restaurant shows Mangione with his mask up addressing the mystery photographer.

The images were released by Pennsylvania State Police after 9am ET Tuesday, suggesting they may have been taken on a bodycam.

Mangione, 26, is being held in a nearby correctional facility while awaiting extradition back to New York City to face murder charges over the December 4 assassination.

Luigi Mangione’s mother Kathleen Mangione reported him missing to San Francisco police on November 18, just over two weeks before Brian Thompson’s murder.

A police source revealed the report to the San Francisco Standard, although it is unclear why Kathleen contacted cops in the City by the Bay.

Mangione grew up in Baltimore, where his parents continue to live, although public records show he has multiple relatives in San Francisco.

The 26 year-old engineer lived in Honolulu until shortly before Brian Thompson’s murder and is accused of traveling to New York City late last month before shooting Thompson, 50, dead on December 4.

Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning.

He is being held in custody at the nearby State Correctional Institution Huntingtdon while awaiting extradition back to New York, where he faces a murder charge.

Mangione’s family released a statement in the wake of his arrest saying they are ‘devastated’ by their son’s alleged behavior and sending their condolences to Brian Thompson’s family.

Luigi Mangione has been seen in an updated mugshot from Pennsylvania authorities.

It comes as the suspected killer is scheduled to appear in the Blair County Courthouse at 1.30pm EST on Wednesday.

The hearing is intended to discuss his extradition to NYC to faces charges for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The suspected killer is scheduled to appear in the Blair County Courthouse at 1.30pm EST.

The hearing is meant to discuss his extradition to NYC to faces charges for the murder of Brian Thompson.

Luigi Mangione once claimed his mother made him eat steak with his right hand, even though he was left-handed, to ‘adhere to social norms.’

Suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder in the second degree, despite many officials saying the shooting was a premeditated and targeted killing.

The full list of charges against Luigi Mangione were revealed on Tuesday morning, listed as murder, possession of a weapon, possession of a forged instrument, all in the second degree, and another count of third-degree possession of a weapon.

The reason Mangione’s murder charge is second-degree is down to specific legislation in New York, which stipulates that certain factors must be met for a charge to be raised to first-degree murder.

These include that the victim must have been an on-duty police officer or peace officer, a judge, a witness to a crime, about to testify in court, or the murder must have been a contract killing.

Other factors include if the defendant was convicted of a previous murder, if they killed more than one person, if the victim was tortured, or if the crime was part of an act of terrorism.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said the trove of evidence against suspect Luigi Mangione has offered New York’s prosecutors a ‘super strong’ case.

McCabe told CNN that the literal smoking gun could turn out to be the firearm found on Mangione’s person when he was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday.

‘That’s basically like putting a sign in your pocket that says ‘I did it”, he said.

McCabe cited a 3D printed silencer found alongside the suspect’s 3D printed pistol as evidence that, at the current moment, ‘the case against him right now is really very, very simple, basic and super strong.’

The former deputy bureau chief went on to describe Mangione as a ‘meticulous person’ whose actions after the shooting showed he was trying to raise ‘as little attention as possible.’

However, he said Mangione made a handful of crucial mistakes that led to his arrest and would have entirely changed his chances at prosecution if he had behaved differently.

‘(There are) 1,000 places he could have gotten rid of those IDs and that pistol as he was making his escape out of New York,’ he said.

‘Had he done so, the case against him would be very different.’

Mangione claimed in his LinkedIn that he was employed as a software engineer at TrueCar, an online marketplace based in Santa Monica, California.

However the company has since said Mangione has not worked there since 2023.

The British actress, 38, took to the comments on a post from the Instagram account sainthoax, which shared photos of the alleged shooter.

The post read, ‘Person of interest in CEO shooting identified as Luigi Mangione’ along with the caption, ‘they (allegedly) got him.’

It showed a number of photos featuring Mangione, 26, including a shirtless one of him hiking.

Jameela commented: ‘A star is born.’

Luigi Mangione was once a member of an Ivy League group of gamers who enjoyed playing ‘Among Us,’ a video game where gamers play ‘assassins’ while trying to avoid other player’s suspicions.

Officer Tyler Frye, who has only been on the job for about six months, was greeted with a round of applause from his fellow officers outside of the Pennsylvania court house, reported the New York Times.

Frye and his partner said they ‘recognized [Mangione] immediately’ after he pulled down his face mask in the McDonald’s.

‘We didn’t even think twice about it, we knew that was our guy,’ Frye said.

‘It feels good to get a guy like that off the street, especially starting my career this way, it feels great.’

A customer who saw Luigi Mangione at the McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, says he is stunned that the alleged assassin stayed there so long because he must have heard people say he looked like the alleged killer.

Larry Repko, 70, told DailyMail.com his friends were laughing about the man who was sat at the back of the fast food joint.

‘He was at the rear of the store and I was at the front’, Repko said.

‘I’m sure he heard my friend joking around saying it was the shooter from New York but he stayed sat there.

‘We left before he was arrested but I came back later and the staff told me it actually was him.

‘I thought he was one of the workers, with his hood up and laptop on because they do that.’

Mangione had been on a Greyhound bus traveling through Altoona on Monday morning at around 9am, when he got off and walked into the McDonalds opposite the bus stop.

His route from New York is currently unclear, with authorities working to piece together his movements after the fatal shooting.

Pennsylvania State Police are appealing for anyone with knowledge of Mangione’s movements prior to arriving in Altoona to get in touch.

The department also released new images of Mangione in the restaurant, appearing to eat a hash brown.

‘When you’re hiding or running from the police, I guess you never know where you’ll end up,’ Repko said.

Officers from Altoona Police Department are currently still guarding the fast food restaurant.

Witnesses claim that two female members of staff spotted the shooter, and a customer also contacted cops.

The suspect in last week’s high-profile shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson is related to a Republican politician.

A member of the House of Delegates since 2019, the elder Mangione has yet to address the arrest.

Luigi Mangione remains jailed in Pennsylvania but is expected to be extradited to New York where he faces a murder charge.

Initially, Mangione was charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police before Manhattan prosecutors added the murder charge, according to an online court docket.

Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after the McDonald’s customer recognized him and notified an employee, authorities said.

Altoona is about 233 miles west of New York City.

He is seen below in his holding cell on Monday.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams called Altoona Police Office Tyler Frye who arrested suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione on Monday.

Frye, who has only been on the job for about six months, said he ‘recognized [Mangione] immediately’ after he pulled down his face mask in the McDonald’s.

Adams recorded his coversation thanking Frye for his service and posted it on X.

‘We’re very appreciative of the partnership between local police, state partners, and the NYPD. Together, we brought him into custody and took a dangerous individual off our streets,’ Adams said.

The Pennsylvania McDonald’s where Luigi Mangione was arrested on Monday was ‘review bombed’ by trolls after staff blew his cover and summoned the police.

The fast food joint in Altoona was hit by a wave of online backlash after an employee notified authorities about Mangione, leading to his arrest for killing UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson.

The negative comments aimed at McDonald’s were the latest in ‘review bombing,’ where an establishment is hit with a litany of bad reviews based on a political view or an occurrence unrelated to its actual business.

About 100 negative and one-star reviews showed up after Mangione, 26, was captured at the restaurant with most criticizing the restaurant and its staff.

Suspected assassin Luigi Mangione was apparently left startled after McDonald’s employees recognized him after five days on the run.

Mangione, 26, was taken into custody on firearm charges Monday afternoon at the fast food joint in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, outside of a Manhattan hotel.

Sources told DailyMail.com that several staff members noticed the masked man, who sat quietly reading after ordering a drink from the fast food establishment.

Luigi Mangione is being held in solitary confinement at the ‘maximum custody level’ of a Pennsylvania prison.

Mangione, 26, spent his first night at State Correctional Institution Huntingtdon, which sits around 15 miles east of Altoona, where he was arrested on Monday morning.

Details of Mangione’s prison conditions were shared with CNN by Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokeswoman Maria Bivens.

SCI Huntingdon opened in 1899 and became a maximum-security prison in 1960. It housed capital inmates until 1995.

Pennsylvania still has the death penalty, but lawmakers in the Keystone State are taking steps to ban it.

Mangione will be extradited back to New York City, where Brian Thompson was assassinated, to be tried for murder.

If convicted of murder, Mangione must spend at least 20 years behind bars and could spend the rest of his life in jail.

Luigi Mangione’s friends and family were not legally-obliged to report him to police if they recognized him in the images shared by the NYPD.

New York University Law School Professor Rachel Barkow said ‘There is no legal duty to report’ someone you recognize on a wanted poster and that you can not be prosecuted for failing to do so.

Barkow told The New York Times that police departments instead offer rewards to try and ‘entice’ people who may recognize a suspect into dialing 911.

Prof. Barkow added that it is illegal to harbor a wanted felon.

After Mangione, 26, was arrested on Friday, observers accused friends and family members of failing to report him after two images of his face circulated online.

But cops likely knew Mangione’s name prior to his arrest, meaning those close to him may well have been in touch.

In addition to a three-page, handwritten document that suggests he harbored ‘ill will toward corporate America,’ Kenny said Mangione also had a ghost gun, a type of weapon that can be assembled at home and is difficult to trace.

Officers questioned Mangione, who was acting suspiciously and carrying multiple fraudulent IDs, as well as a US passport, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference. Officers also found a sound suppressor, or silencer, ‘consistent with the weapon used in the murder,’ the commissioner said.

He had clothing and a mask similar to those worn by the shooter and a fraudulent New Jersey ID matching one the suspect used to check into a New York City hostel before the shooting, Tisch said.

Luigi Mangione’s X account is back up after it was briefly deleted as YouTube removed channels belonging to the suspected killer.

Elon Musk addressed the removal of Mangione’s X account stating, ‘his happened without my knowledge. Looking into it.’

YouTube removed three channels belonging to Mangione, as well as a channel that was altered Monday to look as if it belonged to him, Jack Malon, Google policy communications manager, confirmed to CNN.

Luigi Mangione’s yearbook was located by two girls who posted their journey to uncover the memento in a breezy 11 second long TikTok video which saw them head to the prestigious Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, a $40,000-a-year prep school.

Mangione, 26, had served as the valedictorian of Gilman School’s Class of 2016.

Those close with Luigi Mangione reportedly shared messages on X letting them know they were worried about him in the days leading up to UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson’s assasination.

Posts viewed by The Daily Beast showed loved ones tried to reach out and connect with him before the killing.

‘Thinking of you and prayers everyday in your name,’ wrote user @Collin30923201P on November 25. ‘Know you are missed and loved.’

The day prior, the suspected shooter is believed to have arrived in New York City and checked into a hostel on November 24.

‘@PepMangione Hey, are you ok? Nobody has heard from you in months, and apparently your family is looking for you,’ wrote X user @TheRealMandusa on October 30.

Mangione went from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh after the shooting, and likely ‘was in a variety of locations across the state,’ said Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police.

‘Based on everything we have seen, he was very careful with trying to stay low profile, avoid cameras — not all that successfully in some cases, but that was certainly the effort he was making,’ Bivens said.

In the days since the shooting, police turned to the public for help by releasing a collection of nine photos and video — including footage of the attack, as well as images of the suspect at a Starbucks beforehand.

‘Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’ read one excerpt from a Kaczynski quote on Mangione’s Goodreads page.

‘The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress,’ read another.

CNN reports that a Reddit account that matches Mangione’s personal details said he suffered from back pain related to spondylolisthesis – a condition where a vertebra in the spine slips out of place, usually in the lower back.

The user said the pain became worse after a surging accident.

‘My back and hips locked up after the accident,’ the user wrote in July 2023, saying that ‘intermittent numbness has become constant’ and ‘I’m terrified of the implications.’

Mangione apparently had surgery sometime late last year, but it’s unclear whether it helped his condition.

TikTok influencer @goobigubbi went viral in the wake of the assassination of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, with one clip garnering over 8.3 million views.

When the search for Mangione was still ongoing, the influencer shared a clip with his mom freaking out at him as he refused to change clothes that matched surveillance images shared by the NYPD.

Brian Thompson shooting suspect Luigi Mangione suffered a back injury so severe he was unable to have sex, a former roommate said.

RJ Martin lived with the murder defendant for six months at a Hawaii co-living space and told The New York Times about 26 year-old Mangione’s secret agony.

‘He knew that dating and being physically intimate with his back condition wasn’t possible,’ Mr Martin told The Times.

‘I remember him telling me that, and my heart just breaks.’

Piers Morgan was left in shock after gleeful former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz said she felt ‘joy’ following the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

On Monday night, Lorez joined Morgan on Piers Morgan Uncensored, as the broadcaster questioned her about her controversial social media posts following Thompson being gunned down in Manhattan on Wednesday.

The suspected killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson is the heir to a holiday resort fortune created by his grandparents – and the brother of a top doctor.

Luigi Mangione, 26, comes from a powerful Maryland family centered on the late patriarch Nicholas Mangiano, a first-generation American who built a real estate empire in the state, including country clubs and media.

Nicholas, who died in 2008 aged 83 after suffering a stroke, was the owner of Turf Valley Resort and Hayfields Country Club, as well radio station WCBM-AM.

A false manifesto supposedly written by suspect Luigi Mangione is making the rounds online.

Police have not yet released Mangione’s manifesto, but said they found a two-page document on him at the time of his arrest.

The 262-word handwritten manifesto noted that UnitedHealthcare’s market capitalization has grown whole American life expectancy has not.

‘To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone,’ he wrote, as reported by The New York Times.

It slams companies that ‘continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.’

A GiveSendGo page has raised over $6,000 of its $200,000 goal for alleged killer Luigi Mangione.

‘This is a preemptive legal fundraiser for the suspect allegedly involved in the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO,’ the page reads.

‘We are not here to celebrate violence, but we do believe in the constitutional right of fair legal representation.’

‘Please share in your networks!’

Luigi Mangione told his classmates they need ‘incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things.’

Mangione had served as the valedictorian of Gilman School’s Class of 2016, which he praised in his speech for its ‘inventive [and] pioneering mentality.’

Gov. Josh Shapiro said suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione is ‘no hero’ following his court appearence.

‘In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint,’ Shapiro said.

‘He is no hero. The real hero in this story is the person who called 911 at McDonald’s this morning.’

Suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter has been in the Keystone State for ‘several days’ following the deadly attack, according to police.

Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said police are working to piece together where the suspect went following Brian Thompson’s assassination.

‘We know that he has been in Pennsylvania for several days, so part of that investigation will also focus on trying to retrace his steps,’ Bivens said.

The suspected gunman reportedly referenced UnitedHealthcare in the handwritten document found on him.

Luigi Mangione mentioned the $515.93 billion company in his manifesto noting the size of the company and how much money it makes, a senior law enforcement offical who saw the document told the New York Times.

In the 262-word handwritten manifesto, Mangione said as UnitedHealthcare’s market capitalization has grown, American life expectancy has not.

The document condemned companies that ‘continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.

He reportedly wrote that acted alone and that he was self-funded.

‘To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone,’ Mangione said.

‘These parasites had it coming. I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.’

Luigi Mangione was charged with murder by NYC officials for the shock execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

He was detained on Monday by police in Pennsylvania.

Mangione now faces three gun charges and forgery in New York.

He remains jailed in Pennsylvania on charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police.

Mangione was arrested in an Altoona McDonald’s on Monday after cops ‘immediately recognized’ him as the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.