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NEW YORK (WPIX) – The parents of Luigi Mangione, the antheral suspected of shooting and sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, told instrumentality enforcement that they hadn't heard from their lad successful months.
Mangione's parent reported him missing to San Francisco constabulary 2 weeks earlier Thompson's slaying successful Midtown, according to John Chell, New York Police Department Chief of Patrol.
Mangione, 26, appeared successful a Pennsylvania tribunal connected Wednesday, wherever helium contested his extradition to New York to look murder and different charges.
"This is wholly retired of interaction and an insult to the quality of the American people," Mangione said arsenic helium was led into court.
He wants a hearing connected the extradition, according to Mangione's attorney, Thomas Dickey.
"I don’t privation radical to leap to these pre-judgment things due to the fact that cipher would ever privation that if they were accused, oregon 1 of their loved ones were accused," Dickey said successful an interview with NewsNation. "And the large proceeding today, I haven’t seen immoderate grounds yet. I don’t adjacent cognize if this is him oregon whatever. So we’re going to trial those waters and springiness the authorities a accidental to bring immoderate evidence."
The NYPD is moving to assemble a timeline and hint Mangione's whereabouts earlier and aft the shooting. He was taken into custody astatine a McDonald's successful Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Chell said authorities are reviewing considerable evidence, including what's described arsenic a handwritten manifesto.
The papers that Mangione had connected him astatine the clip of his apprehension said, "Frankly, these parasites had it coming. I bash apologize for immoderate strife oregon traumas but it had to beryllium done. I wasn’t moving with anyone," sources told NewsNation affiliate WPIX.
Mangione intends to plead not blameworthy to each accusations against him, his lawyer said. He precocious suffered from a backmost wounded and had surgery, according to reports.
