BREAKING NEWS Police rush to United Healthcares Minnesota HQ four months after CEOs murder by Luigi Mangione

Police have rushed to UnitedHealthcares Minnesota HQ - just four months after Luigi Mangione allegedly murdered the insurance giants CEO in New York City. 

There is currently a large police presence at the United Healthcare campus. We are monitoring the situation, Minnetonka Police Department wrote on X at 12.22pm. 

No further information has been given. This is a breaking news story with updates to follow. 

Based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, UnitedHealthcare is Americas biggest health insurer, covering more than 49 million people, and it is operated by UHG. 

Police records obtained by KSTP show that Minnetonka Police stationed an officer at the HQ in the days after the shooting, as they heightened surveillance at the facility in the wake of the Manhattan attack. 

Mangione, 26, has been imprisoned at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on December 9. 

The Ivy League graduate is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare boss Brian Thompson outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan on December 4.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced earlier this month that she has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty against the alleged assassin. 

Police have rushed to United Healthcares Minnesota HQ (pictured) - just four months after Luigi Mangione allegedly murdered the insurance giants CEO in New York City 

Mangione, 26, is facing state and federal murder charges for allegedly gunning down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of the Midtown Hilton hotel in Manhattan

The Ivy League graduate is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare boss Brian Thompson (pictured) outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan on December 4

It is the first time the Justice Department has sought to bring the death penalty since President Donald Trump returned to office in January with a vow to resume federal executions after they were halted under the previous administration.

Luigi Mangiones murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America, Bondi said in a statement. 

She described Thompsons killing as an act of political violence.

Mangiones lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said Tuesday that in seeking the death penalty the Justice Department has moved from the dysfunctional to the barbaric.

Mangione is caught in a high-stakes game of tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors, except the trophy is a young mans life, Friedman Agnifilo said in a statement, vowing to fight all charges against him.

The killing and ensuing five-day manhunt leading to Mangiones arrest rattled the business community, with some health insurers hastily switching to remote work or online shareholder meetings. 

It also galvanized health insurance critics — some of whom have rallied around Mangione as a stand-in for frustrations over coverage denials and hefty medical bills.

Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting Thompson from behind. Police say the words delay, deny and depose were scrawled on the ammunition, mimicking a phrase commonly used to describe insurer tactics to avoid paying claims.

Mangione has been accused of shooting Brian Thompson at point-blank range in New York

The suspect was picked up on 86th Street and Columbus Avenue two minutes after he left Central Park in Manhattans Upper West Side

Mangiones federal charges include murder through use of a firearm, which carries the possibility of the death penalty. 

The state charges carry a maximum punishment of life in prison. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to a state indictment and has not yet been required to enter a plea on the federal charges.

Prosecutors have said the two cases will proceed on parallel tracks, with the state case expected to go to trial first. It wasnt immediately clear if Bondis announcement will change the order.

Mangione was arrested Dec. 9 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 230 miles (about 370 kilometers) west of New York City and whisked to Manhattan by plane and helicopter.

Police said Mangione had a 9mm handgun that matched the one used in the shooting and other items including a notebook in which they say he expressed hostility toward the health insurance industry and wealthy executives.

Among the entries, prosecutors said, was one from August 2024 that said the target is insurance because it checks every box and one from October that describes an intent to wack an insurance company CEO. 

UnitedHealthcare has said Mangione was never a client.