Police have arrested a suspect believed to be responsible for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to reports.
The man detained over the fatal shooting has been named as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione.
The arrest comes after an extensive manhunt for the killer who gunned down Thompson on the streets of New York City last week.
Investigators revealed that Mangione was found with a manifesto that criticized healthcare companies.
The writings hit out at firms for putting profits above care, the New York Times reported.
The outlet cited a senior law enforcement official.
Customers in a branch of McDonald’s in central Pennsylvania thought the man was “suspicious” and called police, NBC said.
The report quotes three senior law enforcement officials.
When officers arrived, they found the man had a fake ID.
He was taken to a police station for questioning, two senior law enforcement officials told the network.
Once there, they discovered he had a gun similar to the one used in the killing of Brian Thompson, a silencer, and a fake New Jersey ID, the two sources said.
The suspect is being questioned in Altoona, around 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.
One of the investigators’ lines of enquiry is whether he had recently travelled there by bus from Philadelphia, officials revealed.
Thompson was shot dead by a masked gunman outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday morning.
He was killed while he was on the way to the company’s annual conference.
Footage showed the attacker walking up slowly behind Thompson and opening fire outside the Hilton hotel.
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch described the shooting as a “premeditated, preplanned targeted attack”.
Shell casings found at the scene where the executive was killed had “deny,” “delay,” and “depose” written on them.
The gunman fled on foot, then on a bike into Central Park, New York City police have said, as they launched a citywide manhunt.
In the park, detectives found a grey rucksack they believe he used.
The bag contained bank notes from the Monopoly board game.
It also contained a jacket which may have been worn by the gunman.
The suspect took a taxi to an Upper Manhattan bus station from where he could travel to New Jersey, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC, New York’s chief of detectives, Joseph Kenny, said on Sunday.
New CCTV has emerged showing a suspect coming out of a nearby subway station.
It is said to have been filmed at 6.15 am – about half an hour before the shooting on Wednesday.
In the video clip, taken from cigar shop Davidoff of Geneva on Sixth Avenue, the man can be seen walking up some stairs to street level.
It’s about three minutes’ walk from where Mr Thompson was killed, outside his company’s annual investor meeting at a hotel near Radio City Music Hall and the Rockefeller Centre in midtown Manhattan.
The gunman travelled to the city by bus from Atlanta, and investigators are searching for video from that bus station and others along the Greyhound Bus route.
Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, and has lived in San Francisco and Honolulu, the police said.
He is currently in custody on local charges, possibly related to presenting the fake identification to the police, according to the NY Times.
Mangione has not yet been arrested or charged in connection with the killing.
