Police body camera footage released Friday showed officers locating and arresting Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
In one video, police asked Mangione to remove the mask he was wearing to hide his identity.
“This is 100 percent him,” one officer said urgently as they stepped outside to speak out of Mangione’s earshot.
“I told you, man,” another person responded off-camera.
An officer then searched Mangione’s belongings and when she pulled out a gun, she smiled broadly, seemingly confirming they had found the suspect.
The videos come from Mangione’s arrest in Altoona on Dec. 9, 2024, five days after Thompson, a 50-year-old Minnesota executive, was shot and killed while heading to a downtown Manhattan hotel for the company’s annual investor conference.
A judge in Manhattan unsealed the recordings on Friday after CNN requested their release. Parts of the footage were played during a court hearing in December when Mangione’s lawyers unsuccessfully tried to waive key evidence, including his initial statement to police and items seized during his arrest.
Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in August and faces life in prison when sentenced in December. He also faces murder charges in New York state court, although those proceedings have been postponed indefinitely as his lawyers try to have the case dismissed.
The video released Friday begins with police swooping on a McDonald’s in central Pennsylvania, nearly 300 miles from Manhattan.
They found Mangione, an Ivy League-educated scion of a wealthy Maryland family, sitting at a table wearing a ski hat, surgical mask and winter coat. Officers said they were responding to calls about suspicious persons and asking for their names and identities.
“You’re a little nervous now, why are you nervous?” one officer asked at one point.
They ordered him to put his hands on his head and asked him if he had been to New York recently. They confronted him and he provided a fake New Jersey driver’s license with the name Mark Rosario on it.
“You are now under formal police investigation,” a police officer warned. “You give us another false name and you’ll be arrested for a fake ID.”
When Mangione finally confessed, they asked him why he lied.
“I obviously shouldn’t do this,” he responded when asked to write down his real name and spell it out loud.
Other videos show officers slapping Mangione, reading him his rights, handcuffing him and taking him to a police station.
While one officer searched him more thoroughly at the station, another officer checked his backpack.
The officer found the 9 mm handgun that authorities later confirmed was used in the homicide, as well as a silencer and another magazine of ammunition. They also found the diary, which prosecutors later said revealed Mangione’s intentions to “attack” a health insurance executive, as well as other handwritten notes from him.
“He has a list for today,” another officer said, listing the seized items to someone on the phone. “Tomorrow he’s supposed to do an intelligence check-in and get a survival kit.”