Experts say the suspected health insurance CEO assassin seemed too meticulous to be an amateur and too careless to be a professional.
"What surprises me is how well planned the actual attack was, and at the same time how sloppy the killer was in his movements – in his showing his face, in leaving behind items," said Steve Moore, a retired"There's kind of a dichotomy. It's almost as if he read a book on how to do one of these attacks and didn't read it carefully. He just made serious mistakes as he went along.
"It's one of the reasons people ride Greyhound buses. is a great deal of freedom and anonymity to come and go as you please." The suspect arrived at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan on November 24 – 10 days before the killing, authorities said. It appears the suspect used cash throughout his 10 days in New York, during which he finalised plans for the killing and his escape.The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections released an intake photo of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The suspect was seen on numerous public surveillance cameras with his jacket hood over his head and a mask over his face.
Police later released a photo taken from a security camera inside a taxicab, which gave a clear image of the suspect's eyes. The man arrested in Pennsylvania had a "ghost gun" when he was searched by local police at a McDonald's, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said on Monday. CNN has obtained footage of the gun used by the shooter who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York. Shortly after the pre-dawn killing, the suspect seemingly left a trail of evidence behind.
Authorities hoped DNA samples from the wrapper and water bottle – plus a partial fingerprint from the phone – would help them identify the suspect. But testing yielded no DNA or fingerprint matches in law enforcement databases."The water bottle they found that they believe that he dropped, he could have pulled that out of the garbage at the Starbucks before he left there. It might have somebody else's DNA on it," she said.
"The fact that he was able to get to that location, be there in time, shoot Thompson and then get to his bike and get out of there and be on a bus out of the area, out of New York City as quickly as he did – that shows that he practiced this, that he knew what he was doing as far as his exit route from the area," Gray said.He apparently forgot to ditch his fake IDs:
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