CNN obtained newly released police body camera footage showing the arrest of Luigi Mangione at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, days after he fatally shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The hours of footage show police officers questioning Mangione at the fast food restaurant on the morning of December 9, 2024, before he was handcuffed, searched and transported to the police station. The videos show police conducting further searches of Mangione and his belongings at the station, including when an officer found a gun – now known to be the murder weapon – in his backpack.
This is the first time the videos have been seen outside the courtroom. Some images were broadcast for a day suppression hearing last December, when the defense argued that evidence recovered during the arrest should be suppressed because Mangione’s backpack had been poorly researched.
New York State Judge Gregory Carro ultimately decided that most of the evidence would be admitted at trial and placed the videos under seal. The judge allowed their release after CNN requested their unsealing following Mangione’s guilty plea to federal charges in August, in which he admitted to shooting Thompson, 50, on a Manhattan sidewalk.
The unsealed videos, taken from body cameras worn by eight Altoona police officers, show different angles of how the day unfolded when Mangione was approached and questioned by law enforcement, who quickly believed he was the suspect linked to the CEO’s murder.
The footage shows that Mangione first provided police with a fake ID card bearing the name “Mark Rosario” — the same name, prosecutors say, that the shooting suspect used to check into a New York inn before Thompson’s murder. – before later revealing his real name to law enforcement.
Officers handcuffed Mangione in the fast-food restaurant and searched his pockets and belongings, including his black backpack, in which they found a gun magazine wrapped in underwear, the videos show.
Mangione was then transported to the police station, where videos show he and his bag were searched further. The footage captures the moments police recovered key evidence from the backpack, including a gun and a notebook with handwritten entries that prosecutors described as his “manifesto.”
Mangione’s defense attorneys asked Judge Carro to dismiss the murder charge against him following his guilty plea in federal court in late summer, arguing that he would do so. will be illegally prosecuted under the grounds of double criminality if it continues.
The judge has not yet ruled on the motion; the parties are due back in state court in December.
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