San Francisco police identified the man accused of assassinating United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week several days before he was caught at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.
The news comes as authorities claimed that 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was not previously on law enforcement’s radar when he was arrested on Monday after a customer at the fast food restaurant recognized him based on photos that had been released by police last week.
Sources told the San Francisco Chronicle that an officer in the San Francisco Police Department’s Special Victims Unit recognized Mangione on December 5 as being the person in the photos released by law enforcement.
The officer recognized him because his family contacted the department to report that he had gone missing after they had not heard from him for several months.
The unit reported his identity to the FBI on December…
