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Maryland native Luigi Mangione’s mom tried to find him weeks before CEO shooting
BALTIMORE — Luigi Mangione, heir to a prominent Baltimore family, was reported missing by his mother weeks before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot.
On Thursday, he faced judges in both New York and Pennsylvania where his lawyers said they would fight the murder charges.
Mother’s efforts to locate
In the months before the shooting, Mangione disappeared from family and friends. He did speak to a British-based journalist.
“He did allude to his frustrations with the U.S. health care system. There was a brief exchange we had where he said the U.S. healthcare system was really expensive,” Gurwinder Bhogal told CNN.
Bhogal also said, “He did talk about corporate greed. He didn’t like corporate greed.”
Last month from Baltimore, Mangione’s mother reportedly alerted San Francisco police on November 18 her son was missing. San Francisco authorities then recognized Mangione after the shooting and told the FBI days before he was captured.
Prominent Baltimore family
Mangione’s family has deep ties to the Baltimore area.
They own Lorien Health Services, a chain of nursing homes, as well as the Turf Valley and Hayfields Country Clubs and conservative news-talk radio station WCBM.
The family has only made one statement since Mangione’s arrest.
His cousin Nino Mangione, a Republican state delegate representing Baltimore County, wrote, “Unfortunately, we cannot comment on news reports regarding Luigi Mangione. We only know what we have read in the media. Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest. We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved. We are devastated by this news.”
The FBI reportedly relayed the tip to NYPD
“The question becomes was there some sort of communication breakdown along the way? Did the NYPD take this seriously? What action did they take once they got this tip? So there are a lot of open questions,” Michael Barba, a reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle, said.
An NYPD official said after the first photos of the suspect were released, Mangione’s mother told authorities she did not believe it was him. Authorities said his mother spoke to them the day before her son was arrested. She did not identify him in the surveillance photos that were being circulated, but she did tell them it might be something she could see him doing.
Baltimore acquaintances shocked
Mangione was the valedictorian of the Class of 2016 at Baltimore’s elite Gilman School.
Classmate James Sandberg told WJZ he knew Mangione “somewhat well” and “he was a nice kid.” Mangione was the valedictorian of their class. A video of the 119th Gilman School Founder’s Day Ceremony shows Mangione’s speech.
Sandberg said he was “shocked” after someone shared an article about Luigi as a person of interest.
“Thought it was maybe a different Luigi Mangione,” Sandberg said.
The Gilman School said in a statement. “This is a deeply distressing news on top of an already awful situation. Our hearts go out to everyone affected.”
Mangione in court
Thursday morning, officers led Mangione into a courtroom in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. The hearing lasted 90 minutes.
Mangione spoke to his attorney and agreed to extradition as a row of officers with the NYPD waited to take him back to Manhattan to face charges in Thompson’s killing.
Reporters swarmed Mangione’s lawyer following the hearing.
“Everything we did today was in his best interest. We’re ready now to move forward and start defending these charges in New York and Pennsylvania,” his Pennsylvania-based attorney Thomas Dickey said.
A clean-shaven Mangione looked briefly at the cameras before officers placed him in a black SUV.
A caravan of police vehicles then took him to the airport, where Mangione was escorted onto a plane, headed for New York.
When he got to New York, Mangione was escorted to court by numerous, heavily armed officers.
He said little during his arraignment but calmly answered the judge’s questions that he was aware of his rights.
At a news conference, District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Mangione intended to cause terror.
The NYPD said Mangione targeted Thompson and criticized the healthcare industry in handwritten notes recovered during his arrest.
This week, prosecutors increased the charges to include first-degree murder and terrorism.
WJZ has learned federal prosecutors have charged Mangione with four counts—including murder, stalking and firearms offenses. The federal complaint includes surveillance images detailing Mangione’s whereabouts the day of the murder.
Mangione’s lawyer, former prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo, declined to comment.
She wrote in a prior statement, “The federal government’s reported decision to pile on top of an already overcharged first-degree murder and state terror case is highly unusual and raises serious constitutional and statutory double jeopardy concerns. We are ready to fight these charges in whatever court they are brought.”
The prosecutor in Pennsylvania said he will not be dropping charges there.
“They are allegations at this point, but we are not in the practice of just dismissing charges simply because someone has more serious charges somewhere,” Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks said Thursday.
Mangione has a preliminary hearing on January 18.
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to allow Virginia to use a new congressional map that favored Democrats in all but one of the state’s U.S. House seats. The map was a key part of Democrats’ effort to counter the Republican redistricting wave set off by President Trump.
The new map was drawn by Democrats and approved by Virginia voters in an April referendum. But on May 8, the Supreme Court of Virginia in a 4-to-3 vote declared the referendum, and by extension the new map, null and void because lawmakers failed to follow the proper procedures to get the issue on the ballot, violating the state constitution.
Virginia Democrats and the state’s attorney general then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to put into effect the map approved by the voters, which yields four more likely Democratic congressional seats. In their emergency application, they argued the Virginia Supreme Court was “deeply mistaken” in its decision on “critical issues of federal law with profound practical importance to the Nation.” Further, they asserted the decision “overrode the will of the people” by ordering Virginia to “conduct its election with the congressional districts that the people rejected.”
Republican legislators countered that it would be improper for the U.S. Supreme Court to wade into a purely state law controversy — especially since the Democrats had not raised any federal claims in the lower court.
Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Republicans without explanation leaving in place the state court ruling that voided the Democratic-friendly maps.
The court’s decision not to intervene was its latest in emergency requests for intervention on redistricting issues. In December, the high court OK’d Texas using a gerrymandered map that could help the GOP win five more seats in the U.S. House. In February, the court allowed California to use a voter-approved, Democratic-friendly map, adopted to offset Texas’s map. Then in March, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the redrawing of a New York map expected to flip a Republican congressional district Democratic.
And perhaps most importantly, in April, the high court ruled that a Louisiana congressional map was a racial gerrymander and must be redrawn. That decision immediately set off a flurry of redistricting efforts, particularly in the South, where Republican legislators immediately began redrawing congressional maps to eliminate long established majority Black and Hispanic districts.
An explosion and fire drew a large emergency response on Friday to a lumber mill in the Midcoast region of Maine, officials said.
The State Police and fire marshal’s investigators responded to Robbins Lumber in Searsmont, about 72 miles northeast of Portland, said Shannon Moss, a spokeswoman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
Mike Larrivee, the director of the Waldo County Regional Communications Center, said the number of victims was unknown, cautioning that “the information we’re getting from the scene is very vague.”
“We’ve sent every resource in the county to that area, plus surrounding counties,” he said.
Footage from the scene shared by WABI-TV showed flames burning through the roof of a large structure as heavy, dark smoke billowed skyward.
The Associated Press reported that at least five people were injured, and that county officials were considering the incident a “mass casualty event.”
Catherine Robbins-Halsted, an owner and vice president at Robbins Lumber, told reporters at the scene that all of the company’s employees had been accounted for.
Gov. Janet T. Mills of Maine said on social media that she had been briefed on the situation and urged people to avoid the area.
“I ask Maine people to join me in keeping all those affected in their thoughts,” she said.
Representative Jared Golden, Democrat of Maine, said on social media that he was aware of the fire and explosion.
“As my team and I seek out more information, I am praying for the safety and well-being of first responders and everyone else on-site,” he said.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Crime scene tape surrounds a bicycle in front of St. Lukes Episcopal Church in Atlanta on May 14, 2026. (SKYFOX 5)
ATLANTA – The woman stabbed to death on the Beltline has been identified as 23-year-old Alyssa Paige, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner.
The backstory:
Paige was killed by a 21-year-old man Thursday afternoon while she was on the Beltline. Officials confirmed to FOX 5 that the stabbing happened near the 1700 block of Flagler Avenue NE.
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said the department was alerted around 12:10 p.m. that a woman had been stabbed just north of the Montgomery Ferry Drive overpass. She was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital where she later died. Another person was also stabbed during the incident, but their condition remains unknown.
According to officers, the man responsible attacked a U.S. Postal worker prior to the stabbing before getting away on a bike. He then used that bike to flee the scene of the stabbing as well.
The suspect was arrested near St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Peachtree Street in Midtown around 5:25 p.m.
What we don’t know:
While officials haven’t released an official motive, they noted the man may have been suffering a mental health crisis.
The Source: Information in this article came from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office and previous FOX 5 reporting.
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