Elbahrain.net But the man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk managed to evade capture for days – puzzling even law enforcement experts.

“What surprises me is how well planned the actual attack was, and at the same time how sloppy the killer was in his movements – in his showing his face, in leaving behind items,” said Steve Moore, a retired FBI supervisory special agent.

“There’s kind of a dichotomy. It’s almost as if he read a book on how to do one of these attacks and didn’t read it carefully. He just made serious mistakes as he went along.”

The suspect’s evasion ended Monday at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania – where police arrested Luigi Mangione in connection with the killing.

Here’s a look at what police say are the suspect’s key moves, the evidence he left behind, and what experts say about his strategy:

Detectives from the New York Police Department traveled to Georgia and reviewed surveillance footage from the Greyhound station in Atlanta – but saw no sign of the suspect, law enforcement officials told CNN. The detectives returned to New York.

Investigators are still trying to determine where the suspect boarded, said John Miller, CNN’s chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst.

He arrived early and stayed in a hostel – again, paying cash: The suspect arrived at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan on November 24 – 10 days before the killing, authorities said.

It appears the suspect used cash throughout his 10 days in New York, during which he finalized plans for the killing and his escape.

He diligently wore a mask … and then lowered it: The suspect was seen on numerous public surveillance cameras with his jacket hood over his head and a mask over his face.

But a rare image of the suspect’s unmasked face was captured on surveillance video when a hostel employee flirted with him and asked him to lower his face mask, a law enforcement official told CNN.

Elbahrain.net The 3D-printed gun that health care CEO killing suspect Luigi Mangione had when he was arrested this week in Pennsylvania matches three shell casings found at the crime scene in Midtown Manhattan, the New York Police Department commissioner said Wednesday, as authorities continue to investigate the motive for the killing

“First, we got the gun in question back from Pennsylvania. It’s now at the NYPD crime lab,” Tisch, the commissioner, said Wednesday. “We were able to match that gun to the three shell casings that we found in Midtown at the scene of the homicide.”

“We’re also at the crime lab able to match the person of interest’s fingerprints with fingerprints that we found on both the water bottle and the KIND bar near the scene of the homicide in midtown,” she said. Authorities had been probing DNA material and a partial fingerprint from a discarded Starbucks water bottle and an energy bar wrapper surveillance images showed the suspect buying about 30 minutes before the shooting.

The fingerprints were the first positive forensic match tying Mangione directly to the scene where Thompson was gunned down just over a week ago outside a hotel, two law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told CNN earlier Wednesday.

Since his arrest Monday thanks to a tipster at a McDonald’s, the 26-year-old’s background also is starting to come into focus. The privileged scion of a well-to-do family, high school valedictorian and Ivy League graduate vanished from view of his loved ones in recent months, only to emerge as the suspect in a high-profile killing potentially fueled by his struggle with a painful back injury.

Mangione’s mother on November 18 called San Francisco police and reported him missing, saying she hadn’t spoken to him since July 1, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told CNN. His mother told authorities she had called her son’s phone repeatedly and the voicemail was full and not taking any more messages, according to the official.

The mother said her son had been living in San Francisco and working remotely for TrueCar, a vehicle buying website, the official said, citing the missing person’s report.

Attorney denies Mangione’s involvement in killing
Mangione’s lawyer has denied his client’s involvement in the killing in New York and anticipates he will plead not guilty there to the murder charge, among other counts. Mangione also plans to plead not guilty to Pennsylvania charges related to a gun and fake ID police found when they arrested him in Altoona, attorney Thomas Dickey said.

“I haven’t seen any evidence that they have the right guy,” Dickey told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.” Dickey has not seen the evidence, including writings police said were in Mangione’s possession at the time of his arrest, the lawyer reiterated Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

In some of Mangione’s writings, he referenced pain from a back injury he got in July 2023, New York Police Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told Fox News on Tuesday. Investigators are looking into an insurance claim for the injury.

“Some of the writings that he had, he was discussing the difficulty of sustaining that injury,” Kenny said. “So, we’re looking into whether or not the insurance industry either denied a claim from him or didn’t help him out to the fullest extent.”

Mangione was denied bail at an extradition hearing Tuesday afternoon at the Blair County Courthouse in Pennsylvania.

As he entered the courthouse, shackled at the hands and feet and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit with DOC emblazoned on the back, he yelled, in part, “It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people. It’s lived experience.”