'Life-changing' injury may have pushed NY suspect to kill CEO: police
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New York: A life changing, life altering back injury may have helped drive the man charged with gunning down a top health insurance CEO in the middl...
New York: A "life-changing, life-altering" back injury may have helped drive the man charged with gunning down a top health insurance CEO in the middle of New York City to the killing, police said Thursday.
Luigi Mangione, 26, is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street last week, triggering a nationwide manhunt that ended Monday when he was recognized at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
Detectives have been focused on what may have motivated the data engineer, a University of Pennsylvania graduate from a wealthy Baltimore family, to allegedly shoot Thompson in cold blood.
Speculation had swirled about Mangione's health, after a photo on what appeared to be one of his social media accounts featured an X-ray of a spine with a medical implement.
"It seems that he had an accident that caused him to go to the emergency room back in July of 2023, and that it was a life-changing injury," New York Police Department (NYPD) Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told NBC New York on Thursday.