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(NewsNation) — Luigi Mangione, who is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is expected to waive extradition to New York portion astatine a tribunal proceeding successful Pennsylvania connected Thursday, sources archer NewsNation.
Mangione's New York lawyer is vowing to combat each charge, arsenic his lawsuit could walk the remainder of his beingness successful situation if convicted. The 26-year-old is charged with first-degree execution successful the furtherance of terrorism, arsenic good arsenic 2 counts of second-degree murder.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says extradition is going to hap 1 mode oregon another.
"I'm acceptable to bring him backmost and marque definite justness is served to idiosyncratic who had the audacity to weapon down immoderate New Yorker," Hochul said. "I don't attraction what their rubric is. That brazen determination connected our streets indispensable effect successful terrible consequences."
According to a section quality outlet, if Mangione does get extradited to New York, helium could beryllium booked, processed, and arraigned successful beforehand of a antithetic justice arsenic soon arsenic Thursday afternoon.
NewsNation reached retired to Mangione's attorneys for comment.
Shooting of Brian Thompson
Thompson, 50, was fatally changeable conscionable earlier 7 a.m. Dec. 4 successful beforehand of a Hilton hotel while walking to UnitedHealth Group’s yearly capitalist gathering successful New York City.
The words “deny,” “depose” and “defend” were written connected the ammunition casings recovered astatine the scene. It is an evident notation to the rubric of the publication “Delay, Deny, Defend,” which is astir the ways security companies cull requests for aesculapian sum deemed indispensable by doctors.
Authorities arrested Mangione astatine a McDonald's successful Altoona, Pennsylvania connected Dec. 9. With him astatine the clip were a mask, firearm, suppressor and fake New Jersey ID that connected him to the shooting, constabulary said.
Mangione besides had a manifesto and a spiral notebook with a "to-do" list. In the manifesto, Mangione wrote that helium acted unsocial and that helium “apologizes for immoderate strife oregon traumas, but it had to beryllium done.”
“Frankly, these parasites had it coming,” helium wrote.
Mangione has been held without bail astatine the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon successful Pennsylvania.
