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The man was located in Altoona, about 280 miles away from Manhattan and about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh, after a Greyhound bus he was traveling on stopped at a McDonald's, authorities said.
The man has been ID'd as Luigi Nicholas Mangione, the NYPD announced.
Mangione is from Towson, Maryland. According to his LinkedIn page, he was the valedictorian at Gilman School in Baltimore and received both Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
The NYPD said Mangione's last known address is in Honolulu, Hawaii, and he has ties to San Francisco.
The NYPD sent detectives to Altoona to interview the Mangione, who is being held on weapons charges.
The weapon, possibly a ghost gun, appeared similar to the one used in the assassination-style killing outside the Midtown Manhattan Hilton on Wednesday, Dec. 4.
A customer at the McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona reportedly recognized the man from photos released by police and told an employee who then called 911, CNN reports.
A hand-written manifesto criticized healthcare companies for putting profits above care was found on Mangione, according to authorities.
Law enforcement officials said the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" were written in Sharpie on the 9mm shell casings recovered at the scene of Thompson's targeted murder, authorities said.
They could be connected to the so-called "three D's of insurance," made by opponents of the health insurance industry, and the lead-in to the title of the 2010 book, "Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It."
The same fraudulent New Jersey identification that police suspect the man used to check into a hostel on the Upper West Side 10 days prior to the murder was presented by the man to officers in Altoona, according to a senior law enforcement official, as reported by The New York Times.
Investigators believe that after the killing, the suspect fled a few blocks north to Central Park, where he then took a cab to a bus terminal near the George Washington Bridge.
In addition to the gun, manifesto, and fake ID, authorities also seized a laptop from Mangione, according to Altoona Police.
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