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A 911 call about a man resembling \u201cthe CEO shooter.\u201d Body-camera footage of police arresting Luigi Mangione and pulling items from his backpack, including a gun that prosecutors say matches the one\u00a0used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and a notebook they have described as a \u201cmanifesto.\u201d Notes about a \u201csurvival kit\u201d and \u201cintel checkin,\u201d and testimony about his statements behind bars.<\/p>\n
A three-week pretrial hearing on Mangione\u2019s fight to exclude evidence from his\u00a0New York murder case\u00a0revealed new details about his December 2024 arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania, steps prosecutors say he took to elude authorities for five days, and what he may have revealed about himself after he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
The hearing ended Thursday. Mangione watched from the defense table as prosecutors called 17 witnesses, many of them police officers and other personnel involved in his arrest. Mangione\u2019s lawyers called none. Judge Gregory Carro said he won\u2019t rule until May 18, \u201cbut that could change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mangione, 27, an Ivy League graduate\u00a0from a wealthy Maryland family, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges. The pretrial hearing was in the state case, where he faces the possibility of life in prison, but his lawyers are trying to exclude evidence from both cases. Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. He is due back in court for a hearing in that case on Jan. 9. Neither trial has been scheduled.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the things we learned from Mangione\u2019s pretrial hearing:<\/p>\n
The public got an extensive, even exhaustive view of how police in Altoona, about 230 miles (370 kilometers) west of Manhattan, conducted Mangione\u2019s arrest and searched his backpack after he was spotted eating breakfast at McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n
While there were quirky moments and asides \u2014 about holiday music, a hoagie and more \u2014 the point of the hearing was to help the judge assess whether Mangione voluntarily spoke to police and whether the officers were justified in searching his property before getting a warrant.<\/p>\n
For the first time,\u00a0body-worn camera video of Mangione\u2018s arrest\u00a0was played in court and excerpts from one were made public. Previously, only still images had been released. Taken from multiple officers\u2019 cameras, the footage put ears and eyes on the critical moments surrounding his arrest, along with an incongruously cheerful soundtrack: \u201cJingle Bell Rock\u201d and other Christmas tunes on the restaurant\u2019s sound system.<\/p>\n
Officers on the witness stand were quizzed about what they said and did as Mangione went from noshing on a hash brown to being led away in handcuffs, as well as what they perceived, where they were standing and how they handled evidence after bringing him to a police station.<\/p>\n
Mangione\u2019s lawyers argue that none of the results of the search nor statements he made to police should be mentioned at his trial, which has yet to be scheduled. Prosecutors disagree. Carro didn\u2019t hint at his conclusion. He invited both sides to submit written arguments and said he planned to study the body-camera video before issuing a written decision.<\/p>\n
Mangione\u2019s lawyers noted that one officer said \u201cwe\u2019ll probably need a search warrant\u201d for the backpack, but his colleagues had already rifled through it and later searched the bag again before getting a warrant.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors emphasized an Altoona police policy, which they said is rooted in Pennsylvania law, that calls for searching the property of anyone who is being arrested. The two sides also amplified some contrasting signals, in officers\u2019 words and actions, about their level of concern about whether the backpack contained something dangerous that could justify a warrantless search.<\/p>\n
The officer searching the bag, Christy Wasser, testified that she was checking for a bomb. But Mangione\u2019s lawyers pointed out that police didn\u2019t clear the restaurant of customers \u2014 some were seen on body-camera footage walking to a bathroom a few feet away \u2014 and that she stopped her initial search almost immediately after finding a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear.<\/p>\n
The find appeared to confirm officers\u2019 suspicions that Mangione was the man wanted for Thompson\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s him, dude. It\u2019s him, 100%,\u201d officer Stephen Fox was heard saying on body-worn camera video, punctuating the remark with expletives as Wasser held up the magazine.<\/p>\n
Mangione\u2019s statements to police prior to his arrest matter mainly because, as shown on body-worn camera video, he initially gave officers a fake name \u2014 Mark Rosario \u2014 and a phony New Jersey driver\u2019s license bearing that name. He eventually acknowledged the ruse and gave his real name after police ran the ID through a computer system and couldn\u2019t get a match.<\/p>\n
The fake name promptly gave Altoona police a reason to arrest him and hold him for New York City police. \u201cIf he had provided us with his actual name, he would not have committed a crime,\u201d Fox testified. An NYPD lieutenant testified that the Rosario name matched one the suspected shooter used to purchase a bus ticket to New York and gave at a Manhattan hostel.<\/p>\n
Mangione\u00a0told police early on he didn\u2019t want to talk, but officers\u00a0engaged him for almost 20 minutes\u00a0before a supervisor urged Fox to inform him of his right to remain silent. It happened after Mangione had admitted to lying about his name and said he \u201cclearly shouldn\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n
An important factor in whether suspects have to be informed of their right to stay silent \u2014 known as a Miranda warning \u2014 is whether they are in police custody.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors elicited testimony from officers suggesting Mangione could have believed he was free to leave when he gave the false name. But one of the first officers to encounter Mangione testified that he \u201cwas not free to leave until I identified who he was\u201d \u2014 though Mangione wasn\u2019t told that, and body camera video showed multiple officers standing between him and the restaurant door.<\/p>\n
For the first time, the public heard the\u00a0911 call that drew police to the Altoona McDonald\u2019s, ultimately leading to Mangione\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n
The restaurant\u2019s manager told a dispatcher: \u201cI have a customer here that some other customers were suspicious of that he looks like the CEO shooter from New York. They\u2019re just really upset and they\u2019re like coming to me and I was like, \u2018Well, I can\u2019t approach them, you know.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
The woman, whose name was edited out of the recording played in court and omitted from the version released to the public, said she first tried calling a non-emergency number, but no one answered. Then she called 911.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not really an emergency,\u201d she told the dispatcher at the start of the call.<\/p>\n
The manager said Mangione was wearing a medical mask and a beanie pulled down on his forehead, leaving only his eyes and eyebrows visible. She said she searched online for a photo of the suspect for comparison.<\/p>\n
At first, Altoona police officers were skeptical that Thompson\u2019s killer might be in their city, a community of about 44,000 people about midway between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.<\/p>\n
Patrolman Joseph Detwiler, the first officer to arrive at McDonald\u2019s, sarcastically responded \u201c10-4\u201d when a dispatcher asked him to check on the manager\u2019s 911 call, a police supervisor testified.<\/p>\n
The supervisor, Lt. Tom Hanelly Jr., testified that he texted Detwiler a reminder to take the call seriously and offered to buy the officer his favorite hoagie \u2014 a large turkey from local sandwich shop Luigetta\u2019s \u2014 if he nabbed \u201cthe New York City shooter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though, Hanelly acknowledged on the witness stand, \u201cit seemed preposterous on its face.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hanelly said he read up on the shooting as he drove to McDonald\u2019s and searched for a direct line \u201cto get the ball rolling\u201d with NYPD investigators. He ended up calling a New York City 911 call taker.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re acting off a tip from a local business here, we might have the shooter,\u201d Hanelly said in a recording played in court.<\/p>\n
The call taker asked what shooter he was talking about. Hanelly then clarified, \u201cthe UHC shooter\u201d and said he \u201cmatches the photos that your department put out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hanelly said an NYPD detective called him back about 45 minutes later.<\/p>\n
Mangione stayed active throughout the hearing, taking notes, reading documents, conferring with his lawyers and occasionally looking back toward his two-dozen or so supporters in the courtroom gallery.<\/p>\n
He watched intently as prosecutors played a surveillance video of the killing and security and body-worn camera footage of his interactions with Altoona police. He pressed a finger to his lips and a thumb to his chin as he watched footage of two police officers approaching him at the McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n
He gripped a pen in his right hand, making a fist at times, as prosecutors played the 911 call.<\/p>\n
Mangione arrived to court each morning from a federal jail in Brooklyn, where he has been held since shortly after his arrest. He was given permission to wear regular clothes \u2014 a gray or dark blue suit and various button-down shirts \u2014 instead of jail garb and had his hands uncuffed throughout the proceedings.<\/p>\n
One day, he pumped his fist for photographers. Another day, he shooed away a photographer he felt had gotten too close to him.<\/p>\n
Along with the gun and notebook, police officers said Mangione\u2019s backpack was stuffed with food, electronics and notes including to-do lists, a hand-drawn map and tactics for surviving on the lam \u2014 items Altoona Police Sgt. Eric Heuston described as \u201cgoodies\u201d that might link him to the killing.<\/p>\n
\u2018Keep momentum, FBI slower overnight,\u2019 said one note. \u2018Change hat, shoes, pluck eyebrows,\u2019 said another.<\/p>\n
One note said to check for \u201cred eyes\u201d from Pittsburgh to Columbus, Ohio or Cincinnati (\u201cget off early,\u201d it reads). The map showed lines linking those cities, and noted other possible destinations, including Detroit and St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Other items found on Mangione or in his bag included a pocketknife, driver\u2019s license, passport, credit cards, AirPods, protein bar, travel toothpaste and flash drives.<\/p>\n
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Before he was moved to New York City, Mangione was held under close watch in a special housing unit at a Pennsylvania state prison, SCI Huntingdon, about 19 miles (31 kilometers) west of Altoona.<\/p>\n
Correctional officer Matthew Henry testified that Mangione made an unprompted comment to him that he had a backpack with a 3D-printed pistol and foreign currency when he was arrested.<\/p>\n
Correctional officer Tomas Rivers testified that Mangione asked him whether the news media was focused on him as a person or on the crime of Thompson\u2019s killing. He said Mangione told him he wanted to make a public statement.<\/p>\n
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Rivers said Mangione was in the special housing unit in part because the facility\u2019s superintendent had said he \u201cdid not want an Epstein-style situation,\u201d referring to Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s suicide at a Manhattan federal jail in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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