The man was picked up by police at a McDonald's in western Pennsylvania carrying both fake and real identification, according to the New York Times.
The person being questioning by police in Pennsylvania in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson is Luigi Mangione, 26, the New York Times is reporting citing law enforcement sources.Mangione was detained at a McDonald's in Altoona, a city about 275 miles from New York City, on Monday morning carrying a fake ID as well as identification with his real name on it, according to the Times.Mangione has not been charged in the shooting.
The possible break in the case comes six days after Thompson, the 50-year-old insurance executive, was shot dead by a masked assailant outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan.The assassination of a prominent health insurance CEO on a busy city street sparked a wave of online commentary from people on both sides of the aisle expressing emotions ranging from jubilation to schadenfreude, highlighting a bipartisan sense among Americans that the country's healthcare system is deeply broken.
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