Overview
- A Manhattan pretrial hearing played bodycam footage and heard Pennsylvania Officer Stephen Fox describe the December 2024 McDonald’s arrest of Luigi Mangione.
- The video shows Mangione removing a face mask, identifying himself as “Mark Rosario,” and presenting a fake ID before officers detained him.
- Prosecutors exhibited items taken from Mangione’s backpack, including a loaded handgun, a suppressor, an ammunition magazine wrapped in underwear, a passport, a notebook and bank cards, after Blair County authorities approved search warrants.
- Defense attorneys are seeking to exclude the backpack weapon and some of Mangione’s statements as unlawfully obtained, with admissibility rulings pending in New York state court.
- Mangione has pleaded not guilty to New York and federal charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and federal counts carry potential death-penalty exposure.