Luigi Mangione admitted on Friday to gunning down UnitedHealthCare chief executive Brian Thompson, as he appeared in US federal court to change his plea to guilty.
"On the morning of December 4, I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died," Mangione told a federal judge.
Mangione also pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges, admitting matter-of-factly that he trailed the executive to an investor conference in 2024 and gunned him down in the street.
Mangione, 28, said he even used a ruse to glean information about the event, contacting the health insurance company ahead of time under the guise of being an investor at a multibillion-dollar firm.
Mangione is set for sentencing 18 December. When US District Judge Margaret M. Garnett asked whether he understood that he could spend the rest of his life in prison, Mangione answered neutrally: “Yes.”
