NEW YORK: A “life-changing, life-altering” again harm could have helped drive the person charged with gunning down a top health insurance CEO in the course of New York Metropolis to the killing, police stated on Thursday (Dec 12).
Detectives have been targeted on what could have motivated the information engineer, a College of Pennsylvania graduate from a rich Baltimore household, to allegedly shoot Thompson in chilly blood.
Hypothesis had swirled about Mangione’s well being, after a photograph on what gave the impression to be one of his social media accounts featured an X-ray of a backbone with a medical implement.
“Plainly he had an accident that triggered him to go to the emergency room again in July of 2023, and that it was a life-changing harm,” New York Police Division (NYPD) Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny informed NBC New York on Thursday.
“He posted X-rays of screws being inserted into his backbone. So the harm that he suffered was, was a life-changing, life-altering harm, and that is what could have put him on this path,” Kenny continued.
He additionally stated that police had discovered “no indication that (Mangione) was ever a shopper of UnitedHealthcare” and instructed he could have focused the corporate as a result of it was the biggest healthcare organisation in the USA.
Police have stated that Mangione’s fingerprints matched these discovered close to the crime scene, and that shell casings match the gun found on him when he was arrested.
However they haven’t but been capable of entry what’s believed to be his cellphone, nor have they spoken to his household, NBC reported.