Luigi Mangione Expected Back in Court on 1-Year Anniversary of Health Insurance CEO Brian Thompson's Death By Ben Brachfeld and Madison E. Goldberg

Luigi Mangione will be back in court on Thursday, Dec. 4 — the one-year anniversary of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death.

The late UnitedHealthcare CEO, who was fatally shot outside of a New York City hotel on Dec. 4, 2024, joined UnitedHealthcare in 2004 and stepped into the role of CEO in 2021, per his LinkedIn.

Thompson was arriving at the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan just before 6:45 a.m. local time a year ago when a masked gunman shot him in the chest. He was on his way to an investors’ conference and had arrived early, per the New York Times.

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Mangione, 27, most recently appeared in court on Monday, Dec. 1, where he was under “constant watch,” according to Tomas Rivers, a corrections officer at SCI Huntingdon in Pennsylvania., who testified at a pre-trial hearing for Mangione.

Mangione, who is charged with second-degree murder in connection with Thompson’s death, is in court this week as he seeks to have key evidence ruled inadmissible ahead of his trial.

Those include statements to authorities following his arrests and evidence allegedly recovered from a backpack, including a 3D printed pistol and a notebook containing an anti-health insurance “manifesto” and a plot to kill an insurance CEO.

On Tuesday, Dec. 2, prosecutors showed bodycam footage from Mangione’s arrest at an Altoona, Pa., McDonald’s, with the defendant seen munching on a hash brown and Egg McMuffin while officers became more and more confident they had caught the most wanted murder suspect in the country.

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On Monday, prosecutors played the 911 call that brought officers there in the first place, while two prison guards testified about wide-ranging conversations — and potentially incriminating statements — Mangione shared with them while he was in solitary confinement in Pennsylvania.

Mangione is charged with second-degree murder in New York State, after a first-degree murder charge with a terrorism enhancement was dropped. He also faces a murder charge at the federal level that could land him the death penalty if convicted. He has pleaded not guilty.

Mangione is expected to be in court all week as both the prosecution and defense intend to call witnesses and present material evidence.