The Manhunt, the Manifesto and the Murder Charge

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Last week, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare was shot and killed in Manhattan. A five-day search for the gunman ensued. On Monday, a 26-year-old suspect, Luigi Mangione, was arrested in Pennsylvania after an employee at a McDonald’s recognized him and called the police. Dionne Searcey, who covers wealth and corporations, and Maria Cramer, a crime reporter in New York City, break down what we know about the suspect, and what the case has revealed about many Americans’ contempt for insurance companies. Guest: Dionne Searcey, a reporter for The New York Times writing about how the choices made by people and corporations affect the future of our planet. Maria Cramer, a reporter for The New York Times covering the New York Police Department and crime in the city and surrounding areas.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarrow. This is the Daily.
0:09.0	Today.
0:12.0	The five-day manhunt for the killer of a health care CEO.
0:17.0	What we know about the suspect now in custody,
0:27.9	and what the case has revealed about many Americans contempt for insurance companies.
0:32.6	It's Tuesday, December 10th.
0:42.6	On Wednesday morning of last week, the chief executive of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson,
0:49.4	left his hotel in Midtown Manhattan for his company's investor conference a few blocks away.
0:57.4	It was 6.45 in the morning, still mostly dark out. And as Thompson neared his destination,
1:05.7	a hooded and masked gunman emerged from behind a parked car, took out a gun with a silencer, and began to fire at him over and over in what's clearly a targeted attack.
1:13.5	Chilling new details tonight following what police say was the premeditated murder of the CEO of
1:18.9	United Healthcare on the busy streets of Midtown Manhattan early today.
1:24.2	Surveillance videos of all of this, which emerged a few hours later, shocked the city.
1:30.6	It was so surreal.
1:32.2	It's something that you would watch on a TV show, in a movie, this like in cold blood assassination, two blocks away from my house.
1:40.1	What I heard was that he ran up 6th Avenue and into the park, and so, you know, that would be like right here.
1:46.9	And just as shocking was how effortlessly Thompson's killer got away.
1:53.0	According to the NYPD, the shooter took off through an alley, grabbing an e-bike and riding it into Central Park, which at that time was filled with morning runners and
2:01.4	walkers. By the end of the day, a massive citywide manhunt was underway. Cops literally fan out
2:11.2	across Central Park. Hotel rooms are being searched, drones are put in the air. New this morning, NYPD releasing surveillance photos of the suspected gunmen at a New York
2:22.5	hostel without a mask.
2:24.7	Eventually, small pieces of evidence emerge.
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