Well, they arrested someone who they claim is the shooter.
He's a 27 year old from Maryland by the name of Luigi Mangione. He got off the bus he was on in Altoona Pennsylvania and went into a McDonald's for breakfast. A customer recognized him, tipped off an employee and the employee called the Altoona police.
Mangione was found to be carrying a ghost gun that he 3D printed that appeared to match the gun used in the shooting of Thompson, a suppressor, fake IDs including the one he used at the hostel in New York and a hand written "manifesto" criticizing insurance companies.
The man himself is a mixed bag. He was the valedictorian of a $37k per year private high school and then attended the University of Pennsylvania. His facebook page shows an x-ray of his back with three pins in it. The injury was apparently the result of a surfing accident. How the injury relates to the possible shooting of Brian Thompson is unclear.
It also seems that his family is in the nursing home business and has less than a sterling reputation. I'm not going into details on that because they make me squeamish.
He's been arraigned on gun charges in Pennsylvania and is currently fighting extradition to New York but I'll be shocked if he's not on the way to New York very shortly.
The New York police claim to have matched his fingerprints to fingerprints on a burner phone they found in an alley near the shooting and the gun to the shell casings.
The reaction has been "mixed." Actually that's a lie. Most people seem pissed and are lining up behind Mangione. He has a lawyer and reportedly people have offered to pay his legal bills. The McDonald's where he was arrested has been inundated with negative reviews. A typical one saying something along the line of "Don't eat here, they have rats in the kitchen."
There's a long way to go on this and we shall see what we shall see.
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