Bodycam video shows Luigi Mangione's arrest at Pennsylvania McDonald's

Police bodycam recordings released Friday capture the moment officers confronted and arrested Luigi Mangione at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In one video, officers ask Mangione to lower the face mask he was using to cover his identity. After stepping outside, out of his earshot, one officer says, “That's 100% him,” while another replies off camera, “I told you, man.”

The footage also shows an officer searching Mangione's belongings and smiling broadly when she pulls out a gun cartridge, in what appears to be confirmation that officers had found their suspect. The videos were made during Mangione's 9 December 2024 arrest, five days after Thompson was gunned down as he walked to a midtown Manhattan hotel for his company's annual investor conference. Thompson was a 50-year-old executive from Minnesota.

A Manhattan judge unsealed the recordings Friday after CNN petitioned for their release, according to the Guardian. Portions of the videos had already been shown during a December court hearing, when Mangione's lawyers unsuccessfully sought to have key evidence suppressed, including his initial statements to police and items seized when he was taken into custody.

Mangione pleaded guilty in August to federal stalking charges and faces a sentence of life in prison when he is sentenced in December. He also faces murder charges in New York state court, but those proceedings have been postponed indefinitely while his lawyers pursue a bid to have the case thrown out.

The release of the bodycam footage offers the public its fullest view yet of the arrest that ended a five-day manhunt following Thompson's killing, which drew national attention to the health insurance industry and to Mangione himself.