Given the image of the homicide captured on surveillance video – a dark-hooded figure with a gray backpack fatally shooting the executive in the back from several feet away – the case may seem like an obvious candidate for an even more severe charge.

The mother of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of killing UnitedHealth Care CEO Brian Thompson in New York City on Dec. 4, told the FBI that her son could be the person in surveillance photos circulated by police a day before he was arrested,

And since Mangione’s arrest last week, a critical question has gone unanswered: Why would someone with so much privilege and promise allegedly turn to cold-blooded murder to make his point? More: Former Manhattan prosecutor to represent suspect in killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Dr.

The clean-cut streets outside Baltimore where Luigi Mangione grew up are a picture of suburban idyll: Tidy lawns, flowering bushes, stately Colonials and Capes in muted colors. Mangione enjoyed all the trappings of that privilege.

Public donations for suspected CEO killer Luigi Mangione’s ‘defense fund’ surpass $100,000 - The anonymous fundraiser for Luigi Mangione had surpassed more than $100,000 by Sunday

Mr Mangione was arrested with a 3D-printed gun at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania on Monday following a six-day manhunt for the hooded shooter who shot Mr Thompson last week. The g