The FBI questioned the mother of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the night before her son’s arrest in Pennsylvania, and she told the agents he bore a resemblance to the suspect wanted for the killing, according to a Friday report.
Kathleen Mangione was questioned Sunday night by the agency’s Joint Violent Crimes Task Force following a tip it received four days before from San Francisco Police about a missing person’s report the family filed last month, law enforcement sources told the New York Post.
San Francisco Police notified federal agents after they recognized the suspect’s face in surveillance images that the New York City Police Department released seeking public assistance after Thompson’s death on Dec. 4, although Kathleen Mangione was not entirely confident that it was her son in the images, according to the report.
A photo obtained by Fox News Digital shows Luigi Mangione. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
“Indications are that the defendant may waive, but that waiver is not complete until a court proceeding,” Bragg said during a press conference. “Until that time, we’re going to continue to press forward on parallel paths, and we’ll be ready whether he’s going to waive extradition or contest extradition.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to San Francisco Police, NYPD and the FBI for comment.
