Friday’s proceedings in Luigi Mangione’s ongoing pretrial hearing have been canceled due to illness, the judge overseeing the case said.
Mangione, who is accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk last year, is under the weather, New York State Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro said.
“Apparently the defendant is ill today, so we’ll continue Monday morning,” Judge Carro announced at the start of the hearing Friday.
The judge did not elaborate on Mangione’s condition.
Testimony when the hearing resumes is expected to include two Altoona, Pennsylvania, patrolmen who were among more than a dozen officers at the McDonald’s where Mangione was arrested following the shooting.
The defense is trying to exclude the contents of the backpack from Mangione’s trial, arguing police had no warrant and no reason to even touch it.
“He never acted belligerent, did he?” defense attorney Jacob Kaplan asked Patrolman Tyler Frye during Thursday’s proceedings. “No,” Frye answered.
Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Supreme Court alongside his attorney’s Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo during an evidentiary hearing in the murder case of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, in New York City, Dec. 4, 2025.
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“He never attempted to open is backpack at the McDonald’s, did he?” Kaplan asked. “No,” the patrolman responded.
The bag contained what prosecutors have described as the means and the motive for the alleged crime. Prosecutor says police retrieved a 3D-printed pistol used to kill Thompson and a notebook in which Mangione allegedly wrote, “The target is insurance. It checks every box.”
The hearing is expected to continue well into next week, though the judge on Thursday told both sides they were being “duplicative” and said that’s “not helping your case.”
