Luigi Mangione has officially been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson ... TMZ has confirmed.
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00:00We now are learning so much more about Luigi Mangione, who is now the suspect.
00:05He has been charged in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
00:11You know, we told you yesterday that he was apprehended at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania,
00:17and they initially only charged him with some weapons, because he had a gun on him, some
00:22weapons charges there in Pennsylvania.
00:24He has now been charged by the Manhattan D.A. in Brian Thompson's murder, and he went
00:30into part of the process of getting him to New York City.
00:33There has to be an extradition hearing.
00:36The police have released his mugshot, but we are now hearing him for the first time,
00:42and this shows a little window into his ideology, perhaps, but on his way into his extradition
00:50hearing this morning, he shouted out to reporters and photographers who were outside the jail,
00:57here's what he had to say.
01:11Defiant, for sure.
01:12We could not make out what he said at the very beginning, so it's ...
01:15Right.
01:16I don't know if he was responding to a question.
01:17That's what I was wondering, too.
01:18If he was asked a specific question, Charles, I have no idea what he means.
01:24I don't know, but I don't know if he's saying that he's innocent, and this is an insult
01:29to the American people's intelligence, or if he's referring to the healthcare system,
01:35but I think we are going to find out more.
01:37I said it was outside the jail, it's actually outside the courthouse.
01:40The extradition hearing is going on as we speak, so we're not sure, but look, eventually
01:45he's going to end up being ... It's just a matter of when, but he will end up going
01:49back to Manhattan to face those charges.
01:53But now, there's also more about what was going through his mind.
01:58If he is the killer, what was the motive here?
02:02The world's fascinated, the country's fascinated with this guy, Charles.
02:06Right.
02:07Maybe it's so odd that even ... I want to show you this image.
02:13The first image of him in the McDonald's where he was taken down, and I've heard a
02:19lot of people saying, how did they catch him?
02:22Well, obviously he sat in a McDonald's eating, he had to take his mask down, and there were
02:27other customers who saw it.
02:29Interestingly, the customers are now saying they were joking about it.
02:32Right.
02:33Like, he looks like the ... That guy kind of looks like ...
02:35Never thinking it was him.
02:38Right.
02:39McDonald's employees overheard them joking, and then looked, and they ... The McDonald's
02:47employee is the one who said, wait, this might be him, and actually called police who came
02:52and arrested him.
02:54The fascination with him has not died down.
02:58Now that people, one, know his face, they've seen his mug shots, the fascination online
03:07continues with memes and people still celebrating him.
03:11As they celebrate him, we're still trying to figure out what exactly was the motive
03:16here.
03:17There has been, probably, we showed you yesterday, the x-ray that Luigi had posted at one point
03:23showing the screws in his back because the surgery he had after an injury, but was that
03:32the thing that actually motivated him?
03:34Right.
03:36What's your experience with the healthcare companies?
03:37Those are questions we just don't know.