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Luigi Mangione has been charged with first-degree homicide in New York for the alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare chief government Brian Thompson, the Manhattan district lawyer introduced on Tuesday.
Alvin Bragg mentioned that the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, who was final week arrested by native police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, had been formally indicted on one rely of homicide on the primary diploma “in furtherance of terrorism”, and two counts of homicide on the second diploma, one in every of which was charged as a “killing as an act of terrorism”. He’s additionally going through a number of lesser expenses together with legal possession of a weapon.
“This was a daunting, well-planned, focused homicide that was supposed to trigger shock . . . and intimidation,” Bragg advised reporters on Tuesday.
Probably the most severe cost, homicide within the first diploma, carries a most penalty of life imprisonment with out the potential for parole. Mangione is being held with out bail in Pennsylvania and is due at a courtroom listening to in that state on Thursday morning.
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