Luigi Mangione Pleads Not Guilty To Murder & Terror Charges

NEW YORK CITY — Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to state murder and terror charges during his scheduled arraignment at a Manhattan courtroom Monday morning.

The 26-year-old pleaded not guilty to 11 charges in total, including first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism and two counts of second-degree murder.

In addition to the murder counts, he also faces two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree; four counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree; one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and one count of criminal possession of a forged Instrument in the second degree, according to prosecutors.

Mangione faces life in prison without parole if convicted of the state charges.

There is now a federal case against the Maryland native by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Mangione faces one federal count of using a firearm to commit murder, as well as a stalking and a firearm offense.

He has not entered a plea for the federal case

Mangione has hired Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, for his New York City cases, Patch previously reported.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has said, "the state case will proceed in parallel with any federal case."

Mangione’s court date for his federal case is scheduled for Jan. 18.

Mangione also faces five charges in Pennsylvania.

Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks said that the New York case should take "priority" over the charges Mangione faces in Pennsylvania, Patch previously reported.