Mangione timeline: How a Maryland man was arrested in connection to health insurance CEO’s killing

The life story of Luigi Nicholas Mangione changed dramatically Monday.

Eight years ago, he was the valedictorian at Gilman, an elite, all-boys school in Baltimore, where the tuition is more than $37,000 per year for ninth through 12th grades. He grew up in one of the most wealthy and well-known families in the Baltimore area.

In 2020, he graduated with undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school.

Now, he’s the subject of a manhunt that began a week ago after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered outside of a Hilton in New York City. That search led to a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where the 26-year-old was arrested on gun charges and later charged with second-degree murder.

Here’s a timeline based on police and public reports:

Sunday, Nov. 24:

Thompson’s killer arrived at 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in New York City by bus, surveillance video shows, according to police. The bus traveled from Atlanta to New York, but it’s not clear where the suspect joined the ride.

Wednesday, Dec. 4:

The suspect was seen on surveillance footage at 5 a.m. outside a hostel on the city’s Upper West Side, where he is believed to have stayed, according to multiple reports.

At 6:19 a.m. that morning, surveillance video shows him walking along 55th Street.

Authorities said the shooter arrived about five minutes before Thompson outside of the Hilton Midtown.

“It appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes,” New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a news conference Wednesday. “Many people passed the suspect but he appeared to wait for his intended target.”

At 6:44 a.m., Thompson was shot in the back and the leg by a masked gunman outside of the Hilton Midtown. The gunman continued to shoot as he walked toward the victim.

The suspect then fled the scene on a bike and rode into Central Park, according to police.

The bike was left around 86th Street and Columbus Avenue, and then the suspect took a taxi to a bus depot at 178th Street.

Friday, Dec. 6

Police found a backpack they believe belonged to the suspected gunman. It contained Monopoly money and clothes.

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Monday, Dec. 9

Mangione was arrested in Altoona after getting off a Greyhound bus and he was recognized by a witness at McDonald’s.

Tisch said he had a handwritten note that spoke to “his motivation and mindset,” including an “ill will toward corporate America.”

Police said Mangione had a ghost gun — a homemade firearm — and a fake New Jersey driver’s license like the one used to check into a New York hostel.

Mangione was escorted by police into court for a preliminary arraignment on gun charges around 6 p.m. in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.

At the arraignment, Mangione was charged with weapons, forgery and other charges. He was ordered to be held without bail during the brief court hearing on Monday.

He was later charged with second-degree murder in New York City, along with three gun charges and forgery.

Tuesday, Dec. 10

An internal NYPD report obtained by The New York Times said Mangione “appeared to view the targeted killing of the company’s highest-ranking representative as a symbolic takedown and a direct challenge to its alleged corruption and ‘power games,’ asserting in his note he is the ‘first to face it with such brutal honesty.'”

The police report said there’s potential for others to view him as “a martyr and an example to follow.”

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