Luigi Mangione’s mother spoke to police just one day before the accused killer was captured, and investigators say she told them that the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson “might be something that she could see him doing.”
Last month, Mangione’s mother reported her son missing to San Francisco police, saying she had not spoken to him since July.
Investigators in California believed they recognized Mangione after the New York Police Department (NYPD) released images of the suspect in Thompson’s murder, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
Kenny said investigators then called Mangione’s mother to ask if the suspect who police were hunting could be her son.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg called it a “brazen, targeted and premeditated shooting.”
Mangione is due back in court Thursday.
Luigi Mangione, left, is charged with first-degree murder in New York in the Dec. 4 execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (David Dee Delagado for Fox News Digital | Businesswire)
Sources tell Fox News that Mangione does not plan to fight extradition at Thursday’s hearing in Pennsylvania. If that ends up being the case, he could be back in New York the same day.
Mangione, 26, is accused of sneaking up behind Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel as the victim, who lived in Minnesota, made his way to a shareholder conference early on the morning of Dec. 4.
He then allegedly shot Thompson to death in an assassination-style ambush that was caught on surveillance video.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
