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(NewsNation) — In a caller filing, national prosecutors reason that Luigi Mangione sought to animate others to termination and, arsenic a result, should look the decease penalty.
The 27-year-old from Maryland is accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson connected a Manhattan sidewalk Dec. 4.
Mangione has developed a nationalist pursuing since his arrest. As the Justice Department seeks the decease penalty, Mangione's ineligible defence money has received $1.2 cardinal successful donations.
Prosecutors support that Mangione deserves the decease punishment astatine slightest partially due to the fact that helium is truthful influential.
“Simply put, the suspect hoped to normalize the usage of unit to execute ideological oregon governmental objectives,” prosecutors said.
“Since the murder, definite quarters of the nationalist — who openly place arsenic acolytes of the suspect — person progressively begun to presumption unit arsenic an acceptable, oregon adjacent necessary, substitute for reasoned governmental disagreement.”
They specifically referred to last month's shooting that killed 4 people astatine a Manhattan bureau gathering lodging the NFL's headquarters.
The shooter, Shane Tamura, near a enactment blaming the league for causing traumatic encephalon injuries, reminiscent of the "Deny," "Depose" and "Defend" messages written connected the bullets utilized to termination Thompson, recovered astatine the scene.
“Almost immediately, members of the nationalist sympathetic to the suspect touted Tamura’s actions arsenic a laudable continuation of the defendant’s philosophy,” prosecutors added.
Investigators besides recovered notebooks of Mangione's, successful which helium wrote, "The people is insurance."
Mangione is being held successful a national jailhouse successful Brooklyn.
