Person Of Interest In CEO's Killing Charged With 5 Crimes In PA

Latest update: Luigi Mangione has been charged with five crimes in Blair County, Pennsylvania.

Charges include: firearms not to be carried without a license, forgery, tampering with records, false identification to law enforcement, and possessing an instrument of a crime. He was arraigned on Monday. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 23, court records show.

Original story:

ALTOONA, PA — A man in central Pennsylvania has been identified by authorities as a person of interest in connection with last week's slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City.

The man was identified by New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch as Luigi Mangione, 26, of Maryland. He has been arrested on charges tied to a gun. The weapon is a ghost gun, an untraceable homemade weapon, and is similar to the one used in Thompson's killing.

"At this time, he is believed to be our person of interest in the brazen, targeted murder of Brian Thompson," Tisch said at a press conference Monday. "NYPD detectives are en route to Pennsylvania as we speak."

Joseph Kenny, New York City police chief of detectives, said the gun could fire a 9 mm bullet and may have been made with a 3-D printer. Kenny also said Mangione had a silencer in his possession.

Mangione got off of a Greyhound bus traveling through Altoona Monday morning and entered a McDonald's at around 9:15 a.m., where he was recognized from the images of the suspect circulated by authorities.

Police responding to the McDonald's discovered Mangione had fake IDs - including one the gunman used to check into a New York hostel before the shooting. He also was found to have a handwritten document criticizing health care companies.

A masked gunman shot Thompson at point-blank range Wednesday outside the New York Hilton Midtown, where UnitedHealthcare was holding an investors conference.

Surveillance videos show the killer shot Thompson at around 6:45 a.m. before fleeing on foot and then on a bike into Central Park. Authorities believe he left New York City on an interstate bus.

Although police have not disclosed a possible motive for the killing, shell casings found at the crime scene had the words "deny," "delay" and "depose" written on them. The slaying has triggered intense discussion and criticism of the American health insurance industry.

Mangione is from Maryland, and his most recent home address is in Honolulu, Hawaii, FBI special agent Leslie Rodrigues Backschies said during the news briefing.