Luigi Mangione, the suspect in last week’s killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, faced an extradition hearing on murder charges on Tuesday afternoon.
Mangione was denied bail but contested extradition to New York. Pennsylvania now has 30 days to get a warrant from Gov. Kathy Hochul for extradition. Mangione was remanded to State Correctional Institution Huntingdon in Huntingdon County.
"We’re in the process now of securing a governor’s warrant from the state of New York and, you know, we’ll be prepared when the judge schedules the hearing to do what’s necessary to get him back to New York," Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks said.
Authorities say the extradition process to New York could now take as many as 30 days.
Mangione did not seem to be nervous in the courtroom. As he waited for the judge, he looked around at the rows of reporters, seeming to count the number of people in the room. At times he smiled and at one point even interrupted his own defense attorney.
Right before entering the courthouse, however, Mangione was seen on video pulling away from members of the Blair County Sheriff’s Department and screaming, "This is completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people!" before he was pinned against a wall and forced inside. It’s unclear what he was responding to.
