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    Luigi Mangione’s Evidence Hearing so Far in 6 Images

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    • Luigi Mangione has been in court in NY fighting the admissibility of evidence tied to his arrest.
    • Mangioni stands accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
    • Here are some of the images and audio presented at the hearing, which continued on Monday.

    This story was originally published on Friday, December 5. It has been updated to include images of new evidence released in the case.

    A second week of evidence-suppression hearings has begun for Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the year-old ambush shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

    Mangione, 28, hopes to convince a state-level judge in Manhattan to toss key evidence seized at his arrest, most significantly the ghost gun and handwritten “manifesto” his arresting officers pulled from his backpack at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

    Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann set the stage last Monday audio of a surprisingly chill 911 call, played for the public for the first time.

    Here are photos of other key evidence presented in court so far.

    Prosecutors say Mangione tried to throw cops off the scent by claiming he was a “homeless” guy named “Mark.” He handed them this ID.


    The license Luigi Mangione is charged with forging bears the false name "Mark Rosario" and a fake New Jersey address.

    The license Luigi Mangione is charged with forging bears the false name “Mark Rosario” and a fake New Jersey address.

    Manhattan District Attorney’s Office/Business Insider

    The first two officers arriving at the McDonald’s on December 9, 2024 — the fifth day of the nationwide manhunt — had not been expecting much.

    No one believed Thompson’s shooter would be in the restaurant — not the two cops, not their supervisor, not even the store manager who’d reluctantly called 911 at their customers’ insistence. The call had been dispatched as “Priority: Low.”

    “What’s your name?” one of the officers asked, approaching Mangione at the back of the restaurant. “Uh, Mark,” Mangione answered, according to sealed police bodycam footage shown in court. He told them he was homeless.

    He then handed over this New Jersey license — listing his name as “Mark Rosario.”

    When officers walked into the McDonald’s, Mangione wore this mask over his face. Everything changed when the mask came off.


    Luigi Mangione was wearing this face mask when the first officers entered a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

    Luigi Mangione was wearing this face mask when the first officers entered a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

    Manhattan DA’s Office/Business Insider

    Mangione was then asked to pull down his blue-and-white paper medical mask, which Altoona patrolman Joseph Detwiler said made Mangioni stand out.

    “We don’t wear masks,” Detwiler told the jury. “We have antibodies.”

    When Mangione’s mask was lowered, everything changed. “I knew it was him immediately,” testified Detwiler. “I stayed calm.”

    Bodycam footage showed the officer whistling along as Jingle Bell Rock played on the McDonald’s sound system — to keep Mangione calm as well, as they ran his license, he told the judge.

    An arresting officer testified he was concerned Luigi Mangione could be dangerous, in part because he’d seen images like this one.


    This is a still photo from sidewalk surveillance video of the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, shown during an evidence suppression hearing in state court in Manhattan.

    A still photo from sidewalk surveillance video that was shown at an evidence hearing in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

    Manhattan District Attorney’s Office/Business Insider

    Detwiler had closely followed the manhunt for Thompson’s killer, the veteran patrolman told New York Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro from the witness stand.

    He’d said he’d seen NYPD social media postings publicizing the as-yet-unnamed shooting suspect’s face. Elsewhere online, he had seen surveillance footage of the shooting, which was played in court.

    “I knew in New York that they hadn’t found the firearm,” Detwiler testified. Safety, he explained, was behind the decision to frisk Mangione and search his backpack before arresting him on the initial Pennsylvania charges of forgery and providing a false ID to law enforcement.

    A small knife — of legal size — was recovered from Mangione’s pockets at the McDonald’s. Police had missed it the first time they frisked him.


    Evidence photos of items taken from Luigi Mangione at his arrest by Altoona, Pennsylvania police show a small folding knife and four-inch long black zip ties.

    A small folding knife and several four-inch-long black zip ties were among the evidence taken from Luigi Mangione.

    Manhattan DA’s Office/Business Insider

    Before they left the McDonald’s, Mangione had alerted the police to a small, silver folding knife they’d failed to find in his pocket, along with something that looked like a metal stylus and a

    The knife was of legal size, Detwiler’s partner, Patrolman Tyler Frye, testified Thursday, adding that even so, “It could possibly hurt somebody — seriously.”

    Additional evidence was taken from Mangione at Altoona’s police station, including a handwritten to-do list.


    A handwritten -- in pencil -- to do list that police recovered from Luigi Mangione when he was arrested.

    Part doodled map, part shopping list, here is a checklist that police found when Luigi Mangione was at the Altoona Police station.

    Manhattan DA’s Office/Business Insider

    Once at the Altoona Police station, a more thorough search of Mangione’s backpack, pockets, clothing, and other belongings was conducted. Officers found this folded scrap of lined paper, filled with writing and diagrams in pencil.

    Part doodled map, part to-do list, it is filled with dates and tasks, only some of which were accomplished. Under “12/8,” the words “Best buy” had been crossed off, as were mentions of a USB drive, “digital cam,” and “light source.”

    “Hot meal” and “water bottles” were also crossed off.

    Other items on the list — including “AAA bats” and “survival kit,” under the date 12/9, the day of his arrest — were not crossed out.

    They also recovered a small folding knife and $7,800 in large bills.


    Currency taken from Luigi Mangione included 77 $100 bills and one $50 bill.

    Currency taken from Luigi Mangione by Altoona, Pennsylvania police included 77 $100 bills and one $50 bill.

    Manhattan District Attorney’s Office/Business Insider

    At the Altoona police station, cops recovered $7,800 in large bills and currency from Thailand, Japan, and India, totaling $1,620, from Mangioni’s backpack.

    “There’s a weapon,” Patrolwoman Christy Wasser is heard saying soon after, in footage showing her continuing to search Mangione’s backpack.

    Given the gun and the at-first-overlooked knife, the decision was made to strip-search Mangione.

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