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DA says 40 UnitedHealthcare execs got bodyguards, and one dyed her hair after Luigi Mangione killed CEO Brian Thompson

By Business Insider  
   June 05, 2025

Luigi Mangione, charged in the December ambush shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is indeed a terrorist, a New York prosecutor said in a court filing Wednesday night. Some 40 UHC executives were so afraid after the murder that they enlisted bodyguards, the prosecutor argued in an 82-page rebuke of defense lawyers' efforts to get Mangione's state terrorism charge dropped. One exec who received death threats dyed her hair and moved to a temporary home out of fear she might be harmed next, the new court filing said.

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