Luigi Mangione indicted on federal murder charge over healthcare CEO killing

Suspect, charged with four federal counts, faces separate state charges over death of Brian Thompson in Manhattan

Luigi Mangione was indicted on Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last year, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.

The indictment returned by a grand jury in Manhattan federal court also charges Mangione with two counts of stalking and a firearms count.

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