Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty to Federal Stalking Charges in Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
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Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty to Federal Stalking Charges in Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

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Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty Friday in Manhattan federal court to two counts of stalking resulting in death in connection with the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In entering the plea, the 28-year-old Ivy League graduate and University of Pennsylvania alumnus admitted to shooting Thompson, who was 50 years old and was shot in the back as he left his hotel in New York City on December 4, 2024.

The federal plea deal spares Mangione the death penalty, though he faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison. Mangione's legal team is led by Karen Friedman Agnilo and Marc Agnifilo.

The federal admission creates a legal complication for the separate state-level case against Mangione. Because of New York’s double jeopardy law, the federal agreement could cloud the future of the state murder and weapon charges he faces, leaving the status of those proceedings uncertain.

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