New bodycam footage shows police confronting Luigi Mangione at Pennsylvania McDonald’s before arrest

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Newly released police bodycam footage shows officers confronting and arrested Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The footage came from December 9, 2024, five days after Thompson was killed in Manhattan. The recordings show officers questioning Mangione, confronting him over a false identification and later searching his belongings.

Luigi Mangione was confronted by police at Pennsylvania McDonald’s

The videos begin with officers arriving at the McDonald’s in Altoona, central Pennsylvania, nearly 300 miles from Manhattan. Mangione is seen sitting at a table wearing a ski hat, surgical face mask and winter coat.

Police told him they were responding to a report about a suspicious person and asked for his name and identification. At one point, officers asked Mangione to lower the face mask he was wearing.

After getting a closer look at him, one officer stepped outside and said, “That’s 100% him,” while another responded, “I told you, man.”

The officers then returned to questioning Mangione.

“You’re a little nervous right now. Why are you nervous?” one officer asked.

They ordered him to put his hands on his head and questioned him about whether he had recently been in New York.

Mangione initially gave officers a New Jersey driver’s license bearing the name Mark Rosario.

Police questioned Luigi Mangione over false identification

Police confronted him about the identification and warned him that he was already the subject of an investigation.

“You’re under official police investigation right now,” an officer told him. “You give a false name to us again, you’re gonna be arrested for false ID.”

Mangione eventually gave officers his real name. When questioned about why he had lied, he responded, “I clearly shouldn’t have.”

He was then asked to write down his real name and spell it aloud.

Police searched Luigi Mangione’s belongings after arrest

Other portions of the bodycam footage show officers patting Mangione down, reading him his rights, putting him in handcuffs and taking him to the police station.

The search continued after Mangione was taken into custody. While one officer searched him more thoroughly, another went through his backpack.

The search turned up a 9 mm handgun that authorities would later confirm was used in the killing, along with a silencer and another ammunition magazine.

Officers also found a journal and handwritten notes. Prosecutors would later say the journal revealed Mangione’s intent to “wack” a health insurance executive.

One officer appeared to go through the items found during the search while speaking with someone on the phone.

“He has a checklist for today,” the officer said, listing the items that had been seized. “Tomorrow he’s supposed to do an intel check-in and get a survival kit.”

The footage gives a detailed look at the police encounter that led to Mangione’s arrest five days after Thompson’s death.

Luigi Mangione case continues after December 2024 arrest

The bodycam videos were released after a Manhattan judge unsealed the recordings on Friday following a petition by CNN. Some portions of the footage had already been shown during a December court hearing.

At that hearing, Mangione’s lawyers unsuccessfully sought to have key evidence thrown out, including his initial statements to police and items seized when he was arrested.

Mangione pleaded guilty in August to federal stalking charges and faces life in prison when he is sentenced in December. He also faces murder charges in New York state court.

Those state proceedings have been postponed indefinitely while his lawyers seek to have the case thrown out.