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(NewsNation) — Nine days aft United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated connected the streets of New York City, a caller study indicates the manhunt included a important tip from San Francisco police.
An serviceman successful the Special Victims Unit of the San Francisco Police Department recognized Mangione successful photos shared with the nationalist connected Dec. 5, days earlier Luigi Mangione was found. The serviceman tipped disconnected the FBI, per San Francisco Chronicle.
NewsNation has reached retired to the San Francisco Police Department for comment.
Prosecutors successful Manhattan person besides reportedly started presenting grounds to a expansive assemblage successful the case. NewsNation reached retired to the Manhattan District Attorney's bureau for confirmation but owed to the ongoing Grand Jury proceedings, they declined to confirm.
Mangione has been held astatine State Correctional Institution Huntingdon successful occidental Pennsylvania since Monday.
He was charged with forgery and possession of an instrumentality of a crime. Now he's facing extradition to New York, and a second-degree execution charge, among others.
Mangione has contested his extradition backmost to New York. Prosecutors volition person to supply grounds that Mangione is the idiosyncratic charged with execution successful New York.
His lawyer, Thomas Dickey, told NewsNation that helium hasn't seen capable grounds to nexus Mangione to the crime.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called grounds against Mangione precise compelling. She has 30 days to motion disconnected connected his extradition to New York.
In the meantime, Mangione faces a preliminary proceeding successful Pennsylvania connected December 23rd.
Then on, December 30, he'll beryllium backmost successful tribunal to question bail, and again, his lawyer is expected to contiguous evidence, arguing against that extradition request.
