How Luigi Mangione got caught
After police culled the best photo and video images from relevant security cameras (no small task), their decision to share those images with the public led to the apprehension.
Luigi Mangione, now charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, struggled with police officers and angrily shouted toward reporters as he entered a county building for a court appearance in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. In that hearing, we learned that the suspect will fight extradition to New York, where Thompson was murdered. The manhunt captured the nation’s attention. I spent hours on the air for NBC News and MSNBC analyzing each new bit of information during the five-day search for the unidentified shooter. Here are my biggest takeaways and my lingering questions.
Despite impressive detective work, state-of-the-art high-tech policing doesn’t appear to have led to this arrest.
First, despite impressive detective work by some of the finest investigators in New York City, and perhaps the world, state-of-the-art high-tech policing doesn’t appear to have led to this arrest. Had the person who killed Thompson outwitted modern technology? In a Monday news conference, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch rattled off the litany of techniques and tools applied to the search:
