Police rush to United Healthcare’s Minnesota HQ four months after CEO’s murder ‘by Luigi Mangione’

Police have rushed to UnitedHealthcare’s Minnesota headquarters – just four months after Luigi Mangione allegedly murdered the insurance giant’s CEO in New York City. 

‘There is currently a large police presence at the United Healthcare campus. We are monitoring the situation,’ Minnetonka Police wrote on X at 12.22pm on Monday. 

Around an hour later, they added that a suspect had been detained ‘without incident’. 

‘There is no threat to the public. We are continuing to clear the scene at this time,’ Minnetonka Police wrote.  

DailyMail.com has contacted the department for more information. 

UnitedHealthcare is America’s biggest health insurer, covering more than 49 million people. It is headquartered at 9700 Health Care Lane on the outskirts of Minneapolis. 

Police records obtained by KSTP show that Minnetonka Police stationed an officer at the site as they heightened security in the days after Mangione, 26, allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare boss Brian Thompson in Manhattan on December 4. 

The Ivy League graduate has been imprisoned at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on December 9. 

US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced earlier this month that she has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty against the alleged assassin. 

It is the first time the Justice Department has sought to bring the death penalty since President Donald Trump returned to office in January with a vow to resume federal executions after they were halted under the previous administration.

‘Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America,’ Bondi said in a statement. 

She described Thompson’s killing as ‘an act of political violence.’

Mangione’s lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said Tuesday that in seeking the death penalty ‘the Justice Department has moved from the dysfunctional to the barbaric.’

Mangione ‘is caught in a high-stakes game of tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors, except the trophy is a young man’s life,’ Friedman Agnifilo said in a statement, vowing to fight all charges against him.

The killing and ensuing five-day manhunt leading to Mangione’s arrest rattled the business community, with some health insurers hastily switching to remote work or online shareholder meetings. 

It also galvanized health insurance critics — some of whom have rallied around Mangione as a stand-in for frustrations over coverage denials and hefty medical bills.

Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting Thompson from behind. Police say the words ‘delay,’ ‘deny’ and ‘depose’ were scrawled on the ammunition, mimicking a phrase commonly used to describe insurer tactics to avoid paying claims.

Mangione’s federal charges include murder through use of a firearm, which carries the possibility of the death penalty. 

The state charges carry a maximum punishment of life in prison. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to a state indictment and has not yet been required to enter a plea on the federal charges.

Prosecutors have said the two cases will proceed on parallel tracks, with the state case expected to go to trial first. It wasn’t immediately clear if Bondi’s announcement will change the order.

Mangione was arrested Dec. 9 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 230 miles (about 370 kilometers) west of New York City and whisked to Manhattan by plane and helicopter.

Police said Mangione had a 9mm handgun that matched the one used in the shooting and other items including a notebook in which they say he expressed hostility toward the health insurance industry and wealthy executives.

Among the entries, prosecutors said, was one from August 2024 that said ‘the target is insurance’ because ‘it checks every box’ and one from October that describes an intent to ‘wack’ an insurance company CEO. 

UnitedHealthcare has said Mangione was never a client.