The arrest came after policedetained Mangione for questioningin Altoona, Pennsylvania, hours earlier.

One set of photos placed him wearing a face covering at a nearby Starbucks prior to the attack.

Another showed him, also masked, in the backseat of a taxi cab.

Crime Scene Unit police work at the scene where CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson, 50, was shot as he entered the New York Hilton early on December 4, 2024 in New York. Brian Thompson, the chief executive of one of the United States’s largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed outside a New York Hilton hotel in an apparently targeted hit Wednesday, US media reported.

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The figure is twice the industry average.