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If federal charges are filed, New York State Murder Case There will be preference against Mangyun, sources said.
Mangyon, 26, The indictment was filed on Tuesday. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was indicted on first-degree murder and other charges in the targeted killing, officials said. Shot from behind. As he walked down a Manhattan sidewalk on December 4.
New York police said Mangione targeted Thompson. Possibly because The size of the private health insurance company he led. UnitedHealthcare is the largest private health insurance company in the United States.
Mangyon was indicted on charges of first-degree murder to promote terrorism, in addition to second-degree murder and Other Counts.
In New York, one Charged with first degree murder A special circumstance beyond intent is required, such as the killing of a witness, murder-for-hire, killing of a police officer or killing someone in furtherance of terrorism.
Karen Friedman Agnifilo, one of the attorneys representing Mangione on the New York charges, said Wednesday night that he is “prepared to fight these charges in whatever court they are brought.”
“The federal government’s alleged decision to pile on top of the already overcharged first-degree murder and state terrorism case is highly unusual and raises serious constitutional and statutory double jeopardy concerns,” he said.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Tuesday that Thompson’s ambush killing was intended to “shock and distract and intimidate.”
Mangione, wearing a hooded jacket and a mask, waited for Thompson to arrive near a hotel for about an hour before chasing him with a 9mm handgun equipped with a suppressor around 6:45 a.m., Bragg said. shot from
Mangione was arrested on December 9 in Altoona, Pennsylvania after he was identified in security photos distributed by the New York police and the FBI.
He is being held in Pennsylvania and is fighting extradition in New York. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday.
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, the federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan, declined to comment.
Representatives of the FBI and the New York Police Department also declined to comment.
If convicted of first-degree murder or second-degree murder as an act of terrorism, Mangione could face life in prison without parole, Bragg said. If he is convicted of the common charge of second-degree murder, the maximum sentence is 25 years to life, Bragg said.