Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2024, has accepted practically $300,000 in donations for his legal protection.
Mangione is charged with first-degree homicide in furtherance of an act of terrorism, stalking and a slew of different state and federal expenses in each New York and Pennsylvania, for allegedly gunning down Thompson, a married father of two from Minnesota.
“Luigi is aware of the fund and very much appreciates the outpouring of support. My client plans on utilizing it to fight all three of the unprecedented cases against him,” Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione’s lead protection lawyer, stated in a Monday assertion, in keeping with the December 4 Authorized Committee, which created the fund.
The fundraiser garnered greater than $290,000 from greater than 10,000 particular person donations, in keeping with a press launch.
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Luigi Mangione departs the courtroom following his arraignment in New York Metropolis Prison Court docket on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox Information Digital)
“It’s shocking that anybody would raise money for a person [accused of killing] someone in broad daylight in cold blood. There are so many other causes in this country that a person could raise money for,” former Washington, D.C., murder detective, legal trial lawyer and Fox Information contributor Ted Williams informed Fox Information Digital. “Mangione, by the way, came from a very well-off family…raising money for him is like applauding murder.”
“There are so many other causes in this country that a person could raise money for.”
Williams questioned the “mental stability” of anybody who would increase cash for a homicide suspect, calling the act “sick.”
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2024. (Businesswire | NYPD Crimestoppers)
“I find it sad in America where we can witness one man murdering another man and amplify the murderer. It is appalling to me that anybody would raise even a dollar for a person who killed another person in cold blood,” Williams stated. “Yes, a person is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. However, given everything we know about Luigi…all the evidence points directly to him. I am just shocked that because of a person’s status, i.e. being a health care executive, that anybody in America could be cheering the death of a human being.”
The December 4 [D4] Authorized Committee describes itself as “a team of 15 volunteers around the United States” that was “created independently by Mangione’s supporters on his behalf.” The D4 committee’s spokespeople, Sam Beard and Jamie Peck, additionally host a podcast “about communism and gossip” known as “Party Girls.”
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Luigi Mangione is escorted from an NYPD helicopter in New York Metropolis, NY, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox Information Digital)
“We’re thrilled that Luigi is accepting these funds so that he can mount the strongest defense possible,” Beard stated in a press release. “The American private health insurance industry has ruined countless lives by denying people access to basic care and burying families in medical debt. It’s no surprise that Luigi’s alleged actions are understood and supported by tens of millions of hard-working Americans.”
Mangione allegedly shot Thompson outdoors the Manhattan lodge the place UnitedHealthcare’s annual shareholder convention was being held, in an act prosecutors consider was meant to ship a message to the well being care insurance coverage trade.
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Luigi Mangione is escorted from an NYPD helicopter in New York Metropolis, NY, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. He’s charged within the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox Information Digital)
Police discovered a manifesto on the suspect when he was arrested days later in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the place he traveled by bus from New York after the alleged killing.
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“Luigi Mangione allegedly carried out the rigorously premeditated and focused execution of Brian Thompson to incite nationwide debates,” James Dennehy, assistant director accountable for the FBI’s New York area workplace, stated in a press release after Mangione’s extradition to New York. “This alleged plot demonstrates a cavalier attitude towards humanity — deeming murder an appropriate recourse to satiate personal grievances.”
The 26-year-old Mangione is initially from Maryland and has just lately lived in California and Hawaii. He graduated valedictorian from the Gilman College, a personal, all-boys highschool in Baltimore, in 2016. Mangione went on to obtain his bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in laptop science from the College of Pennsylvania in 2020.
