Suspect Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse in Pennsylvania last week. Photograph: Benjamin B Braun/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via APLuigi Mangione was formally charged last week by the Manhattan district attorney with multiple counts of murder, including murder as an act of terrorism.
His initial appearance in the New York state Supreme Court was pre-empted by federal prosecutors bringing their charges over the shooting.The federal charges could carry the possibility of the death penalty, while the maximum sentence for the state charges is life in prison without parole. Mangione was arrested in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s after a five-day search, carrying a gun that matched the one used in the shooting and a fake ID, police said.
Mangione’s lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, has accused federal and state prosecutors of advancing conflicting legal theories.Mangione is being held in a Brooklyn federal jail alongside several other high-profile defendants, including Sean “Diddy” Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried.