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(NewsNation) — The ineligible practice for Luigi Mangione, who is charged with execution successful the sidesplitting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is trying to artifact his extradition to New York from Pennsylvania.
The authorities of Pennsylvania is pursuing a governor’s warrant for 26-year-old Mangione, who is presently astatine the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon. That process could instrumentality 30 days, particularly present that Mangione is trying to combat it.
As helium was escorted into a Pennsylvania courthouse Tuesday, Mangione shouted to reporters gathered outside.
“It’s wholly an injustice and an insult to the American people,” helium said.
During his extradition Tuesday, Mangione tried to interrupt and speech with his attorney, Thomas Dickey.
Dickey told NewsNation's Chris Cuomo that helium believes that Mangione volition plead not guilty.
"We've seen nary evidence. We've seen nothing," Dickey said connected “CUOMO” Tuesday. "I don’t privation radical to leap to these prejudgment things due to the fact that cipher would ever privation that if they were accused, oregon 1 of their loved ones were accused."
In the months starring up to the shooting, Mangione's parent reported him missing to constabulary successful San Francisco, California, the New York Police Department's Chief of Patrol, John Chell, said.
Mangione's parent told instrumentality enforcement that her lad wasn't returning telephone calls and substance messages oregon posting connected societal media.
Several GoFundMe accounts person been acceptable up truthful radical tin donate to wage Mangione's ineligible bills. GoFundMe says they are rapidly moving to unopen these down.
UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot
Thompson, 50, was killed conscionable earlier 7 a.m. Dec. 4 near a Hilton Hotel portion helium was walking UnitedHealth Group’s yearly capitalist gathering successful New York City past Wednesday.
NYPD officers searched for the gunman successful New York and Georgia. On Dec. 9, constabulary successful Altoona, Pennsylvania, responded to reports of a antheral matching authorities' statement of the fishy astatine a section McDonalds.
It was determination that Mangione was arrested. The NYPD said Mangione matched the statement authorities were searching for and besides had with him a mask, firearm, suppressor and a fake New Jersey ID that connected him to the shooting.
