Luigi Mangione’s lawyer said he wants to examine the fingerprints and ballistics evidence police say they have against his client, who is charged with murder in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
“These two pieces of evidence alone have been the subject of some criticism in the past regarding its credibility, its veracity, its accuracy, no matter how you want to do it,” Pennsylvania attorney Thomas Dickey said on the show. “Erin Burnett OutFront” by CNN on Wednesday (11).
“As lawyers, we need to see this. We need to see how they collected this and how much they collected. And then we would have our experts…take a look at this, and we would challenge its admissibility and challenge the accuracy of these results,” Dickey added.
The comments came after New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced that authorities had found a positive match between a 3D-printed gun Mangione had in his possession when he was arrested at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s and the three bullet casings discovered at crime scene of Manhattan shooting.
Tisch also said Mangione’s fingerprints matched those found by investigators on items near the scene of the Dec. 4 murder — a bottle of water and an energy bar wrapper that the suspect allegedly purchased at a Starbucks about 30 minutes before the shooting. shooting.
“We received the weapon in question back from Pennsylvania. Now she is in the department’s crime laboratory,” Tisch said at a public event on Wednesday (11). “We were able to match that gun to the three shell casings we found in Midtown at the homicide scene.”
The three 9mm cartridges had the words “delay,” “deny,” and “depose” written on them, one word per bullet. Police have been investigating whether those words, which match the title of a 2010 book criticizing the insurance industry, could point to a motive in the murder.
Written evidence
“I haven’t seen any evidence that they have the right guy,” Dickey told CNN . Along with fingerprints and ballistics, investigators are examining writings that police said were in Mangione’s possession at the time of his arrest.
In some of Mangione’s writings, he referenced pain from a back injury he suffered in July 2023, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told Fox News on Tuesday. Investigators are looking into an insurance claim for the injury.
“Some of the writings he had, he was discussing the difficulty of sustaining that injury,” Kenny said. “So we’re looking into whether or not the insurance industry denied a claim from him or didn’t help him as much as possible.”
Along with a three-page handwritten “claim of responsibility” found on Mangione when he was taken into custody, investigators are analyzing the suspect’s writing in a spiral notebook, a law enforcement source briefed on the matter told CNN .
It included task lists to facilitate a killing spree, as well as notes justifying those plans, the source said. In a notebook passage, Mangione wrote about the late Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who justified a deadly bombing campaign as an effort to protect against the onslaught of technology and exploitation.
Mangione had also written about the Unabomber in online posts.
Mangione knew that UnitedHealthcare was holding an investor conference at the time Thompson was shot and killed — and the suspect mentioned in writings that he was going to the conference location, Kenny, of the New York Police Department, told Fox News on Tuesday. -Friday (10).
In the notebook excerpt, Mangione concludes that using a bomb against his intended victim “could kill innocents” and that the shooting would be more targeted, reflecting on what could be better than “killing the CEO at his own conference,” said an official from the law informed about the matter to the CNN .
The three-page document did not include specific threats but indicated “ill will toward American companies,” Kenny said.
The suspect appeared to be driven by anger against the health insurance industry and “corporate greed” as a whole, according to an NYPD intelligence report obtained Tuesday by CNN .
“He appeared to view the targeted assassination of the company’s highest-ranking representative as a symbolic overthrow and a direct challenge to his alleged corruption and ‘power plays,’ stating in his note that he is the ‘first to confront it with a such brutal honesty,’” says the department’s assessment, which was based on Mangione’s “manifesto” and social media.
The murder of Thompson — a husband and father of two — exposed the fury of many Americans toward the health care industry, with Mangione garnering sympathy online and offering to pay his legal bills. It also caused fear in executive suites across the country, as an NYPD intelligence report obtained by CNN warns that online rhetoric may “signal a heightened threat facing executives in the short term.”
When Mangione entered the courtroom earlier this week, shackled on his hands and feet and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, he shouted, in part, “It is completely out of context and an insult to the intelligence of the American people. It’s lived experience.”
“He’s angry, he’s agitated about what’s happening to him and what he’s being accused of,” Dickey told CNN explaining Mangione’s outburst and fight with the police.
“He never had legal representation until he walked into that building yesterday. And I spoke to him… look at the difference between when he came in and when he left… now he has a spokesperson and someone who will fight for him.”
Dickey has denied his client’s involvement in the New York murder and anticipates he will plead not guilty there to the murder charge. Mangione also plans to plead not guilty to Pennsylvania charges related to a gun and fake ID that police say they found when they arrested him at the Altoona McDonald’s, Dickey said.
The 26-year-old was denied bail at a Tuesday afternoon extradition hearing in Pennsylvania. Speaking to CNN Dickey said Mangione would likely have a hearing on Dec. 23.
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