Luigi Mangione was ID’d by San Francisco cops days before alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer was arrested: report

Police in San Francisco identified UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, and alerted the FBI four days before his high-profile arrest, a new report says.

An officer tipped off the feds after recognizing the 26-year-old’s face in surveillance images put out by the NYPD after Thompson was gunned down last week, sources told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Police in San Francisco identified UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, and alerted the FBI four days before his high-profile arrest, a new report says. via REUTERS

When Mangione was eventually nabbed at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s after a five day manhunt on Monday, authorities had said the alleged assassin identity wasn’t on their radar. REUTERS

Mangione’s face was known to cops in California because he’d been reported missing by his family just weeks earlier on Nov. 18, the sources added.

When Mangione was eventually nabbed at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s after a five day manhunt on Monday, authorities had said the alleged assassin identity wasn’t on their radar.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the FBI ever received the tip from cops, or if they acted on it.