Mangione Arresting Officer ‘Knew It Was Him Immediately’ (2)

A Pennsylvania police officer testified that when he first saw the face of the nervous young man eating in a McDonald’s restaurant, he knew it was the suspect in the shooting death of a healthcare executive in New York five days earlier.

Patrolman Joseph Detwiler said he had seen a series of photographs released by the New York Police Department as they sought the public’s help in finding the man who gunned down Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2024.

The testimony Tuesday came as lawyers for Mangione are urging a state court judge in New York to ...