Luigi Mangione returns to court docket Friday for a fourth day of an proof suppression listening to within the state case charging him with murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York Metropolis sidewalk final yr.
Testimony is anticipated to incorporate two Altoona, Pennsylvania, patrolmen who have been amongst greater than a dozen officers on the McDonald’s the place Mangione was arrested following the taking pictures.
One in every of them, Christy Wasser, is seen on physique digital camera footage looking Mangione’s backpack and, later, is heard saying, “there is a weapon.”
The protection is attempting to exclude the contents of the backpack from Mangione’s trial, arguing police had no warrant and no cause to even contact it.
“He by no means acted belligerent, did he?” protection lawyer Jacob Kaplan requested Patrolman Tyler Frye throughout Thursday’s proceedings. “No,” Frye answered.
“He by no means tried to open is backpack on the McDonald’s, did he?” Kaplan requested. “No,” the patrolman responded.
Luigi Mangione seems in Manhattan Supreme Courtroom alongside his lawyer’s Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo throughout an evidentiary listening to within the homicide case of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, in New York Metropolis, Dec. 4, 2025.
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The bag contained what prosecutors have described because the means and the motive for the alleged crime. Prosecutor says police retrieved a 3D-printed pistol used to kill Thompson and a pocket book through which Mangione allegedly wrote, “The goal is insurance coverage. It checks each field.”
The listening to is anticipated to proceed properly into subsequent week, although the decide on Thursday informed each side they have been being “duplicative” and mentioned that is “not serving to your case.”
