McDonald’s Employee Called 911 After Seeing United Healthcare CEO Shooting Suspect: ‘The Real Hero’

Following Luigi Mangione's detainment on Monday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro labeled the fast food worker who helped lead to his arrest a "hero."

Mangione was arrested five days after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in front of the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, Dec. 4.

Mangione was detained at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pa., on Monday, Dec. 9, after a customer told an employee that they spotted him eating. The employee then notified the police. He has been labeled a “person of interest” in the shooting and has already been charged with multiple lesser offenses.

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"Brian Thompson was a father to two. He was a husband. And he was a friend to many. And yes he was the CEO of a health insurance company," Shapiro said during a press conference hours after Mangione's arrest.

"In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint... in a civil society, we are all less safe when ideologues engage in vigilante justice," he continued. "In some dark corners, this killer is being hailed as a hero. Hear me on this: he is no hero."

"The real hero in this story is the person who called 911 at McDonald’s this morning," Shapiro continued. "Real heroes every day in our society are the women and men who put on uniforms like these and go out in our communities to keep us safe. This killer is not a hero. He should not be hailed [as one]."

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Shapiro ended his remarks by asking the community to be "mindful" of Thompson.

"Let's be mindful not to dehumanize him, to make him just an avatar of a system disliked by many. As a father, as a husband, he did not deserve to die like this on the sidewalk in New York City," he said.

When Mangione was detained, he was allegedly found in possession of a 9mm "ghost gun" similar to that used to shoot Thompson, multiple fake IDs, and a 3-page manifesto critical of the health insurance industry, per New York and Altoona police.

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Mangione was arraigned in a Hollidaysburg, Pa., courthouse. He was ordered held without bond and is due back in court on Dec. 23. He is charged with one felony count of forgery, one felony count of carrying a firearm without a license, one misdemeanor count of tampering with records or identification, one misdemeanor count of possessing instruments of a crime and one misdemeanor count of false identification to law enforcement authorities.

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