Luigi Mangione Tries to Toss Gun, Manifesto Evidence from Murder Case

Luigi Mangione during a pretrial hearing at New York State Supreme Court in New York on Dec. 1.Photographer: Steven Hirsch/New York Post/Bloomberg

After being apprehended in a furious five-day manhunt for the killer of an insurance executive in midtown Manhattan, Luigi Mangione casually told a prison guard he had a 3-D gun in his backpack and chatted with another about George Orwell’s literature, according to court testimony.

The Pennsylvania guards were recounting what Mangione shared with them under their watch following his arrest at a McDonald’s days after the slaying of UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson that riveted the US a year ago.