Luigi Mangione has been charged with first diploma homicide over the killing of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson final month, New York District Legal professional Alvin Bragg stated on Tuesday.
Mr Mangione has been indicted on one cost of first-degree homicide, in addition to two counts of second-degree homicide, one in every of which is charged as killing as an act of “terrorism”, Bragg stated.
Asserting the costs, Bragg known as the capturing a “scary, well-planned and focused homicide”.
Mr Mangione is scheduled to seem for a court docket listening to on 19 December over whether or not he will probably be extradited to New York on the costs, in line with the BBC’s media associate CBS Information.
The extradition continuing will probably be held the identical day he’ll sit for preliminary proceedings for gun-related prices in Pennsylvania.
Mr Mangione was arrested at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, with a so-called “ghost gun” and pretend ID, police stated, 5 days after he allegedly shot and killed healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on 4 December.
His lawyer, Thomas Dickey, has stated he plans to battle the extradition and maintains he has not seen proof that hyperlinks Mr Mangione’s gun with the crime.
New York prosecutors started to share proof of their case in opposition to Mr Mangione with a grand jury final week.
Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg has recommended that Mr Mangione would possibly waive extradition which suggests his arrival to New York could be imminent, in line with CBS Information.
If extradited, the 26-year-old is more likely to be held at Riker’s Island or one other New York jail.
The proof in opposition to Mr Mangione contains a constructive match between his fingerprints and people found on the scene of the crime, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has stated.
Along with the ghost gun – a gun assembled from untraceable elements – and pretend ID, police stated additionally they discovered a passport and a handwritten doc that indicated “motivation and mindset” on Mr Mangione throughout his arrest.
He was formally charged in Pennsylvania with forgery, carrying firearms with no licence, tampering with information or identification, possessing devices of crime and offering a false identification to police.
Whereas Mr Mangione awaits his destiny within the New York court docket system, he stays below most safety at Huntingdon State Correctional Establishment in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
He has been denied bail.