Body camera footage of Luigi Mangione's McDonald's arrest released publicly
Newly unsealed police footage shows the December 2024 arrest of UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald's.
Body camera footage captures Mangione arrest at Altoona McDonald's
Newly unsealed police body camera recordings show the arrest of Luigi Mangione at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on the morning of 9 December 2024 — days after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, abc7chicago.com reports.
The hours of footage, taken from cameras worn by eight Altoona police officers, capture Mangione being approached and questioned by law enforcement inside the fast-food restaurant before being handcuffed, searched and transported to the station.
Officers initially received a false identification from Mangione bearing the name "Mark Rosario" — the same alias prosecutors say the suspect used to check into a New York City hostel ahead of Thompson's killing. He later provided his real name to police.
During the search at the restaurant, officers found a gun magazine wrapped in underwear inside Mangione's black backpack. At the police station, the footage captures the recovery of further key evidence: a firearm — now identified as the murder weapon — and a notebook containing handwritten entries that prosecutors have described as his "manifesto."
The recordings had previously been viewed only inside the courtroom. Some footage was shown during a multi-day suppression hearing last December, in which Mangione's defence argued that evidence retrieved during the arrest should be excluded on the grounds that his backpack had been searched improperly.
New York State Judge Gregory Carro ruled that most of the evidence would be admissible at trial and placed the videos under seal at that time. He authorised their release on Friday after news outlets, including ABC News, petitioned the court for access following Mangione's guilty plea to federal charges in August — in which he admitted to fatally shooting Thompson, 50, on a Manhattan sidewalk.
Mangione's defence attorneys have since asked Judge Carro to dismiss the state murder case against him, arguing that proceeding would constitute double jeopardy given his federal conviction. The judge has not yet ruled on the motion; the parties are scheduled to return to state court in December.
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