Luigi Mangione has been formally indicted in New York on first-degree murder charges for the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson outside a midtown Manhattan hotel.
The case was elevated to first-degree murder because Thompson was killed ¡°in furtherance of an act of terrorism,¡± prosecutors said Tuesday in New York. Mangione faces as long as life in prison without the possibility of parole if he is convicted.
Mangione, 26, fled Manhattan after the Dec. 4 shooting, authorities said, touching off a five-day manhunt that ended with his arrest in western Pennsylvania. He waited outside the New York hotel with a 9mm 3D-printed ghost gun, prosecutors said.
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