As the chilling details of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder continue to unfold, prominent crime investigators in an interview with the Daily Mail are raising alarming questions about whether the accused shooter, Luigi Mangione, acted alone.
Evidence gathered from CCTV footage, witness statements, and suspect behavior suggests the involvement of at least one accomplice, potentially making this case far more intricate than initially believed.
Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, faces charges of first-degree murder and murder as an act of terrorism for the December 4th slaying of Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel.
Despite Mangione’s handwritten manifesto proclaiming he acted alone, investigators like Brian O’Shea, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and seasoned private investigator, argue otherwise.
Brian O’Shea, whom The Gateway Pundit previously interviewed, spent 11 years serving in U.S. Army intelligence, followed by another decade working as a contractor for various U.S. intelligence agencies. Now, he is the Chief Operations Officer at Centurion Intelligence Partners (a private intelligence consulting firm serving various industries).
Brian is also an investigative journalist at Dr. Naomi Wolf’s DailyClout.io, where he investigates beyond the legacy media headlines to expose the truth behind the distraction.
Brian believes the meticulous timing of the attack was too precise to be coincidental.
“The odds of arriving at the exact moment your target appears are next to impossible,” O’Shea told the Daily Mail. “I’ve done probably over 2,000 hours of surveillance, and probably half of those in New York City. It takes a long time to get to the right place at the right time.”
“The best way to be at the right place at the right time is to have a team, have intelligence on the movement of the target, and to have that team and yourself sit there for a long time until that person moves,” he added.
Another leading private intelligence expert for celebrities and CEOs, who spoke under the condition of anonymity due to close connections with the case, also emphasized footage showing Mangione talking on the phone shortly before the murder. This, he suggests, could indicate he was communicating with an accomplice who was monitoring the CEO’s movements.
Key inconsistencies in the timeline also bolster the theory of a coordinated effort. Surveillance footage reveals Mangione pacing near the crime scene, leaving briefly to visit a Starbucks, then returning just minutes before the attack. Such behavior, O’Shea argued, aligns more with a coordinated surveillance operation than a lone wolf act.
Investigators also questioned how Mangione could have known about Thompson’s attendance at the UnitedHealthcare investor conference two days before its public announcement.
“I continue to be interested in learning how Luigi could possibly have learned the details of the meet date and location in advance,” the second investigator said.
“The assassin needs to know either where his target is starting off for the day or where he is ending up for the day. It is possible that someone who intimately knew the schedule for the CEO provided information to the shooter, or to someone else, who provided it to the shooter,” he added.
Brian also provided his analysis on his Substack, questioning how Mangione knew to case the Hilton on November 24th when the UnitedHealthcare Investors Conference wasn’t announced until November 26th.
Brian: “So we have the ADA signing off on an arrest warrant that has Mangione arriving on the 24th of November 2024. On the same day that the arrest warrant was filed we have the Chief of Detectives for NYPD stating that the the suspect not only arrived on the 24th of November but that the suspect also “immediately goes to a McDonald’s in the vicinity of the Hilton hotel,’”. This statement seems to be implying that Mangione was casing out the Hilton in preparation for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare Insurance CEO Brian Thompson.
But there’s a problem with this…if what the Chief of Detectives said was true and if he had, in fact, been implying that Mangione was essentially doing reconnasaince of the intended murder site on the 24th of November. The problem is that UnitedHealthcare did not make an announcement about this particular investors’ conference until the 26th of November.
So either the Chief of Detectives fabricated the details about Mangione “immediately” casing the murder scene prior to the murder OR Mangione (if he actually is the shooter) somehow predicted that the conference would be held at that location and also decided to show up at 6:40-6:44am, roughly one hour and twenty minutes prior to the official start of the conference because he somehow knew that Brian Thompson would be walking by the Hilton 54th street entrace at that exact time…with no briefcase, portfolio, bag or what appears to be no intention of actually going into the Hilton.
So the question, again, is: How did Mangione know to case the Hilton (if this is what the Chief of Detectives was implying) on the 24th of November when nobody (outside of the conference organizers) knew where or when that conference would be until the 26th of November.
Let that sink in. Investigate everything.”
On Tuesday, Luigi Mangione, 26, was formally indicted on 11 criminal counts, including first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism, for the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg outlined the charges in a statement, revealing that the New York State Supreme Court indictment includes:
Murder in the First Degree, a class A-I felony, one count
Murder in the Second Degree, a class A-I felony, two counts
Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, as class C felony, two counts
Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, a class D felony, four counts
Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree, a class E felony, one count
Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree, a class D felony, one count
New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s office confirmed that she would file the necessary extradition order and paperwork now that the indictment has been handed down. This will allow Mangione to be transferred to New York to face the full slate of charges.
Mangione’s Pennsylvania attorney, Thomas Dickey, stated that his client intends to plead not guilty in both the Pennsylvania and New York cases. High-profile defense attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo has been retained to represent Mangione on the New York charges.
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