Luigi Mangione was charged with the murder of the boss of a US insurance company | News in brief

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A 26-year-old suspect in the murder of an insurance boss in the United States Luigi Mangione has been prosecuted. Mangione is accused of being the CEO of the health insurance company United Healthcare by Brian Thompson of a murder in New York earlier this month.

Mangione is also accused of, among other things, murder with terrorist intent.

Thompson was arriving for an event at the Hilton Hotel on December 5 when the gunman ambushed him in front of the entrance and immediately fled the scene.

Mangione was arrested days later at a McDonald’s restaurant less than four hundred kilometers from the crime scene.

Source: Reuters, AFP

The story is updated.

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