(NewsNation) — Former convicts previously represented by Luigi Mangione’s lawyer told NewsNation on Thursday that high-profile inmates “upset the natural order” in a prison.
An anonymous guest, who had previously been in the same prison as the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect, told NewsNation’s “Banfield” that disruptions to normalcy include ordering commissary items and having yard privileges.
“It would disrupt the working processes of the whole campus,” he said, if “people couldn’t go and do their job because everybody was on lockdown.”
During the phone interview, current inmates shouted through the fence at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon in Pennsylvania, some saying UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect should be transferred to New York City’s Rikers Island.
Luigi Mangione and the UnitedHealthcare shooting
Fingerprints taken from Mangione match those found on a water bottle near the place in New York City where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot last week. The water bottle was in an alleyway Mangione allegedly ran to after the shooting, sources told NewsNation local affiliate WPIX.
Thompson, 50, was killed just before 7 a.m. Dec. 4 near a Midtown Hilton Hotel while he was walking to UnitedHealth Group’s annual investor meeting.
NYPD officers searched for the gunman in New York and Georgia. On Monday, 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 that he had with him a mask, firearm, suppressor and fake New Jersey ID that connected him to the shooting.
New reporting shows Mangione also had a manifesto and spiral notebook with a “to-do” list. Mangione allegedly wrote in the manifesto he acted alone and that he “apologizes for any strife or traumas, but it had to be done.”
“Frankly, these parasites had it coming,” the manifesto says.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.