He was quizzed by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after being found with a distinctive weapon like that used in the brazen shooting of Brian Thompson, NBC News and others reported. The man was spotted in a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, a town 300 miles (500 kilometers) west of New York, by someone who tipped off the authorities, The New York Times reported. He also had fake IDs similar to those used by the killer ahead of the slaying, the outlet added, reporting that New York detectives were headed to Altoona.
Police have been looking into the possibility that the shooter used a long-barrel veterinary gun – normally used to euthanize animals – to commit the murder. The gunman walked up behind Thompson, a senior figure at UnitedHealthcare – one of the country’s largest medical insurers – and shot him dead last Wednesday in front of bystanders, in an attack captured by a surveillance camera and since seen by millions. Thompson was attending an investor conference in the Midtown business district.
Police have yet to suggest a motive and would not confirm media reports that the words “delay” and “deny” – language often used by insurance companies to reject claims – were written on shell casings found at the scene.
The New York Police Department told AFP that detectives had no update for the media, while the Altoona Police Department did not respond to requests for comment. An image released of the smiling suspect was obtained from a youth hostel where the gunman apparently stayed before the hit, with media reporting he had lowered his mask to flirt with a receptionist.
I know a $50k bounty is a life changing amount of money for most people, but it’s a god damn shame the FBI turned the poor against itself to catch this guy. If it was any other murder for any average person this wouldn’t be the case. They wanted this guy because he threatened the status quo. Sure murder is a crime, but did the world lose anything of value? I really hope it’s not the guy but it sounds like it. I see this more as the start of a bloody revolution.
People have been pushed to the breaking point by these corporations and if the government isn’t going to do anything to wrangle these morally corrupt corporate execs, someone will. I see more high profile murders in the future.
It’s only murder if he gets convicted, otherwise it’s justified homicide.
I mean, it sounds like they got him from the way this article is written. It doesn’t make sense to me that he would toss the backpack, but hang onto the gun and fake IDs though.
It doesn’t make sense because it’s bullshit
Maybe some cop in Altoona is trying to pin it on his brother-in-law or something.
Knowing Altoona, it’s also probably his brother and father-in-law at the same time.
They were asking him what it felt like to extra-judicially kill a white man.
Who’s the greedy snitch? That’s what I want to know.
The man was on a Greyhound bus traveling through Altoona on Monday morning, sources said, when he got off and walked into a McDonald’s where a witness recognized him from the images of the suspect circulated by police.
The McDonald’s employee reported him, and “because of that, we believe we have a strong person of interest,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference Monday.
Why was he still on a bus, 250 miles west of Manhattan?
To get away?
250 miles in a week?
Pulls off epic assassination
Turtle pace getaway
NYPD in shambles
Okay maybe.
Definitely a little odd, but maybe he was moving slow in order to be careful? I dunno, it’s just within the realm of plausibility.
Supposedly he had a manifesto on his person, which seeing as this was ideologically motivated is unsurprising. I’d want to have that on me in case the cops smoked me if I was him. Gotta get the word out regarding the reasoning so they can’t just peg you as a crazy person.
I agree. I remember reading that some nypd cops had gone down to atl to do something. You disappear on a bus, they’re gonna be searching for you at your destination. If you hop off the bus and lay low somewhere close, maybe you slip through some cracks.
Sounds like it would have worked if it hadn’t been for some McDonalds employee who reported him. I don’t think McDonald’s franchises are known for providing the best PPO90 plans to their employees, the ultimate irony here would be if that employee needed the $50k to pay off some medical debt.
the ultimate irony here would be if that employee needed the $50k to pay off some medical debt
That’s how the system is designed to work.
I hope they forget to pay the taxes on their reward and stick with a $14k tax bill
Gotta get the word out regarding the reasoning so they can’t just peg you as a crazy person.
So leave it at the scene. Daisy chain 7
firewallsVPNs from Starbucks. Snail mail it to multiple international news outlets. Plenty of deep bodies of water to dispose of the other evidence. Either dude wanted to get caught, or this is a railroad job.He kinda left the cliff notes at the scene
Isn’t a report of a random McDick’s employee just hearsay? Dude should just plead the fifth and then they either charge him or don’t.
To detain a suspect in the US they need reasonable, articulable suspicion of a crime that person has committed. Like it or not, a tip followed by items in his possession checks that box.
A tip like this is all that’s necessary for a cop to have probable cause to search and detain you. Hearsay is for the courtroom, not the police investigation
he had lowered his mask to flirt with a receptionist
Tale as old as time.
I mean, if I was a hero to a large swathe of the country I’d be pretty hard pressed not to flirt with every pretty lady with whom I crossed paths.
Hostels check your ID when you check in. If the receptionist wants to check that your ID matches your face before you get a room key, you don’t have a choice. I suspect the “flirting” is NYPD bullshit
If they caught the guy, they would just say so. All of this “persons of interest“ bullshit is just to give the false pretense that they’re actually making progress when they obviously are not. I doubt they’ll ever catch the guy.
He’s probably gonna need that 50k to help pay off his health insurance once people find who snitched. Another chump takes the bait.
Somebody a couple hundred miles from New Jersey has a fake NJ ID and a silenced pistol, but what are the odds the shooter still had those items 6 hours after the incident?
Considering the absurd amount of guns in this country, and how meticulously the perpetrator planned his crime, it is exceedingly likely that the person in custody is not the perpetrator, and that the perpetrator very intelligently rid himself of the weapon long before now.
Unfortunately, he had a 3D printed single-action pistol and the same fake ID the shooter used to check into his hotel… it’s the guy.
Yeah, I got the news alert about five minutes after I posted my original comment.
Too bad
Let’s hope for jury nullification.
Yes it make sense. He not dumb in act, why dumb after?
He kept the 3D printed gun and… the fake ID the shooter used at the hotel.
That dumb.
I dunno, leaving a water bottle with your DNA on it near the crime scene isn’t exactly the move of a criminal mastermind.
NYPD Find Scapegoat
Everyone should be reporting a sighting
To whoever ratted out Mangione, I’d say snitches get stitches.
Bad move: stitches probably need to be preapproved in your healthcare policy…
