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Special Report: Suspect Arrested in UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder · Bloomberg Law

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  Speaker 1: This is breaking new loose from Blomberg.
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  Speaker 2: We have a strong person of interest in the shooting
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  Speaker 2: that shook our city last week. The CEO, Brian Thompson
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  Speaker 2: of United Healthcare was the victim of a senseless act
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  Speaker 2: of violence.
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  Speaker 3: We've been listening to a news conference including the Mayor
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  Speaker 3: of New York City, Eric Adams, the NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish,
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  Speaker 3: and we're just listening to a question and answer session
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  Speaker 3: with an NYPD's Chief of Detectives, Joseph Kinney, after the
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  Speaker 3: NYPD has identified a person of interest in the killing
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  Speaker 3: of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson days ago, identifying
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  Speaker 3: Luigi Mangioni, a twenty six year old born and raised
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  Speaker 3: in Maryland, according to authorities, with no prior arrest record,
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  Speaker 3: has been taken into custody in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where according
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  Speaker 3: to the NYPD, he will be facing un charges, and
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  Speaker 3: the NYPD says they will be working with the Manhattan
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  Speaker 3: District Attorney, Alvin Bragg on when this person of interest
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  Speaker 3: may be brought to New York to face additional charges there.
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  Speaker 3: We also learned Joe that the suspect, Luigi Manngioni was
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  Speaker 3: a person of interest, rather, was in possession of a
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  Speaker 3: ghost gun with the capability of firing a nine millimeter
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  Speaker 3: round when he was taken into custody at a McDonald's
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  Speaker 3: in Pennsylvania earlier today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty remarkable. Capable of firing a nine millimeters round,
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  Speaker 1: something that could be created on a three D printer,
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  Speaker 1: something that his concerned authorities for a long time. And
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  Speaker 1: here we are again talking about this. His last address Honolulu,
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  Speaker 1: even though he is from Towson, Maryland, not that far
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  Speaker 1: outside of the nation's capital. Here, this young man with
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  Speaker 1: stories we just heard pretty remarkable, Kaylee, about the effective
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  Speaker 1: use of drones combined with canine units, and of course
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  Speaker 1: the willingness of a McDonald's employee to make a phone call.
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  Speaker 1: In this case, we want to bring in Miles Miller
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  Speaker 1: once again, managing editor for Bloomberg's TV, who's been driving
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  Speaker 1: our coverage on this store for us, and he's back
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  Speaker 1: with us from world headquarters in New York. Miles, what
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  Speaker 1: comes next?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So, right now, he's going to be charged locally
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  Speaker 4: in Altuna, Pennsylvania, in connection with the gun possession and
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  Speaker 4: fake ID charges. Once that's done with, they'll do an
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  Speaker 4: extradition hearing, and the hope is to get him back
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  Speaker 4: to New York if he does waive extradition. You know,
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  Speaker 4: in listening to this press conference, you listen to a
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  Speaker 4: story about a twenty six year old man from Marilyn
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  Speaker 4: who made his way up to New York had spent
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  Speaker 4: so much time here to pre plan and methodically plan
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  Speaker 4: the shooting of this healthcare executive. We have been able
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  Speaker 4: to dig through his background and he has talked a
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  Speaker 4: lot in the past. He wrote, he posted a review
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  Speaker 4: of a book by Ted Kaczinski, and he has in
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  Speaker 4: the manifesto that was on his person, and he talked
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  Speaker 4: a lot about being anti corporate America and about some
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  Speaker 4: of the issues he finds with the healthcare system. All
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  Speaker 4: of this found on his person in that McDonald's, and
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  Speaker 4: as the police said, this was all solved by an
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  Speaker 4: eagle eyed McDonald's employee who sees a guy who matches
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  Speaker 4: the description of the suspect and calls police and on
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  Speaker 4: him they find not only that gun with the suppressor
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  Speaker 4: that he made himself on the three D printer, but
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  Speaker 4: they also find that manifesto two pages handwritten sources telling
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  Speaker 4: me and that it has a lot of writing about
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  Speaker 4: anti capitalism and anti healthcare.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we heard from Joe Kenny this idea that he
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  Speaker 3: expressed in that manifesto quote ill will toward corporate America.
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  Speaker 3: Although the NYPD did seem to suggest they do not
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  Speaker 3: think anyone else is at threat hereer as no one
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  Speaker 3: else specifically was named but Miles. They said on multiple occasions,
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  Speaker 3: we're not done here. This investigation is going to continue.
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  Speaker 3: What detail still could surface themselves that they will be
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  Speaker 3: looking to uncover that could potentially move this individual from
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  Speaker 3: person of interest to a suspect charge with these crimes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, they sent off the fingerprints, and they
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  Speaker 4: sent off the DNA from that water bottle that was
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  Speaker 4: found in the alleyway after the shooting several days ago.
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  Speaker 4: Now they will hope to get him to submit to
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  Speaker 4: DNA testing and to see if there's a match. The
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  Speaker 4: need definitive match to make sure that this is exactly
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  Speaker 4: the person. They will do ballistic testing. They'll send that
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  Speaker 4: gun to the police lab in Queen's and make sure
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  Speaker 4: that it is the gun that was used in this
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  Speaker 4: because right now the case has to be firmed up
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  Speaker 4: by firm evidence. Then, in addition to that they've got
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  Speaker 4: to see if he was planning anything else. They'll go
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  Speaker 4: through his computer records. They'll figure out if he was
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  Speaker 4: targeting any other investor days, if he had a list
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  Speaker 4: of people he was targeting, And then most importantly, they'll
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  Speaker 4: see if he was working with any network of people
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  Speaker 4: or if he was a lone wolf did this all
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  Speaker 4: on his own. That's all part of the investigation.