BreakingNews 🚨 Mangione’s lawyer, Thomas Dickey, says there is no evidence linking his client to the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, per ABC.

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with murder in the Dec. 4 death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan, will fight his extradition to New York, his defense lawyer said during a court appearance in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

Mangione was spotted at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., on Monday morning and taken into custody by local police on gun charges. He was found in possession of an assembled gun and suppressor consistent with the weapon seen in video

footage of the crime, a fake New Jersey ID matching the one the suspect used at a Manhattan hostel, and clothing that matched those worn by the suspect. Police also said Mangione had a handwritten document that laid out possible motivations for the attack.

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Mangione was arraigned Monday evening on five crimes in Pennsylvania, including forgery, carrying a gun without a license, falsely identifying himself to law enforcement, tampering with records or identification and possessing “instruments of crime.”

DLuigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with murder in the Dec. 4 death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan, will fight his extradition to New York, his defense lawyer said during a court appearance in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

Mangione was spotted at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., on Monday morning and taken into custody by local police on gun charges. He was found in possession of an assembled gun and suppressor consistent with the weapon seen in video footage of the crime, a fake New Jersey ID matching the one the suspect used at a Manhattan hostel, and clothing that matched those worn by the suspect. Police also said Mangione had a handwritten document that laid out possible motivations for the attack.

Mangione was arraigned Monday evening on five crimes in Pennsylvania, including forgery, carrying a gun without a license, falsely identifying himself to law enforcement, tampering with records or identification and possessing “instruments of crime.”

Late Monday, prosecutors in Manhattan filed murder and other charges against Mangione, online court records show. At a hearing in Hollidaysburg, Pa., Tuesday, his attorney, Thomas Dickey, said he is contesting his extradition to New York to face those charges.

Mangione was denied bail and will be held at a Pennsylvania state prison while extradition proceedings continue.

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