Report: SF Cops ID’d Mangione Four Days Before Arrest

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

San Francisco police recognized the man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan as possibly being Luigi Mangione and contacted the FBI four days before his high-profile arrest, two sources familiar with the matter told the Chronicle.

Authorities have said that when Mangione was arrested Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., he had not previously been on law enforcement’s radar. “This was not a name that was called into us,” New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told NBC on Tuesday.

A customer at the restaurant called police, believing he had spotted the same person depicted in surveillance images from a New York hostel that showed the shooter’s smiling face. Those images had been made public one day after the Dec. 4 shooting.

Read the full article. So…the next day SF cops knew his name?

EXCLUSIVE:

The FBI has said Luigi Mangione wasn’t on anyone’s radar before he was arrested at McDonald’s.

But sources say San Francisco police recognized Mangione as the potential suspect 4 days earlier—and contacted the FBI.

By @mdbarba @meganrcassidy https://t.co/EKFHt5LHOa

— Demian Bulwa (@demianbulwa) December 12, 2024