(NewsNation) — The legal representation for Luigi Mangione, who is charged with murder in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is trying to block his extradition to New York from Pennsylvania.
The state of Pennsylvania is pursuing a governor’s warrant for 26-year-old Mangione, who is currently at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon. That process could take 30 days, especially now that Mangione is trying to fight it.
As he was escorted into a Pennsylvania courthouse Tuesday, Mangione shouted to reporters gathered outside.
“It’s completely an injustice and an insult to the American people,” he said.
During his extradition Tuesday, Mangione tried to interrupt and talk with his attorney, Thomas Dickey.
Dickey told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that he believes that Mangione will plead not guilty.
“We’ve seen no evidence. We’ve seen nothing,” Dickey said on “CUOMO” Tuesday. “I don’t want people to jump to these prejudgment things because nobody would ever want that if they were accused, or one of their loved ones were accused.”
In the months leading up to the shooting, Mangione’s mother reported him missing to police in San Francisco, California, the New York Police Department’s Chief of Patrol, John Chell, said.
Mangione’s mother told law enforcement that her son wasn’t returning phone calls and text messages or posting on social media.
Several GoFundMe accounts have been set up so people can donate to pay Mangione’s legal bills. GoFundMe says they are quickly working to shut these down.
UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot
Thompson, 50, was killed just before 7 a.m. Dec. 4 near a Hilton Hotel while he was walking UnitedHealth Group’s annual investor meeting in New York City last Wednesday.
NYPD officers searched for the gunman in New York and Georgia. On Dec. 9, police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, responded to reports of a man matching authorities’ description of the suspect at a local McDonalds.
It was there that Mangione was arrested. The NYPD said Mangione matched the description authorities were searching for and also had with him a mask, firearm, suppressor and a fake New Jersey ID that connected him to the shooting.