New York Police Tried to Interview Mangione on Night of Arrest

Hours after Luigi Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, New York Police Department officers tried to interview him as the prime suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson.

NYPD Lt. David Leonardi testified that after learning Altoona police arrested Mangione in a local McDonald’s, he told an officer there to hold the evidence they gathered and avoid talking to him until he got there. Leonardi and his colleagues then drove to Altoona, about five hours west, on Dec. 9, 2024.

“I told them to hold the property, and I don’t want anybody speaking to ...