Luigi Mangione challenged his transfer before the New York State courts on Tuesday. While he was charged with murder, his lawyer Thomas Dickey said he would plead not guilty and assured: “I have not seen any evidence that proves he is the shooter.”
A week after the crime, investigations focus on the reasons which would have pushed this engineering graduate, a brilliant former student at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, originally from a wealthy family from Baltimore, to coldly shoot Brian Thompson in the foot. ‘a hotel in the heart of Manhattan.
Police said he was in possession of a three-page handwritten text criticizing the health insurance system in the United States, often accused of prioritizing profits over healthcare.
According to the New York Times, which cited police sources, he was carrying another notebook appearing to plan the murder.
Who is Luigi Mangione, this ordinary young man who became the murderer of an American CEO?
“What’s the right thing to do? Hit a CEO at the annual convention of parasitic accountants. It’s targeted, precise and without risk to innocent people,” it reads, according to the newspaper.
At dawn on December 4, the killer approached 50-year-old Brian Thompson and coldly shot him dead in the street in front of a Manhattan hotel where an investors’ meeting was taking place. The scene captured by a video surveillance camera was seen by millions of people.
The killing sparked a nationwide manhunt and sent shock waves through American business circles. It also sparked hateful comments on social networks against American health insurance programs, illustrating deep anger towards a lucrative system accused of enriching itself at the expense of patients.
