Police in California gave the FBI a tip about alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione a number of days before he was finally tracked down and captured, according to two senior officials.
The tip provided by the San Francisco Police Department was general in nature and was based off a missing persons report that had been filed in November by Mangione’s family, the senior officials told NBC New York. It was among the hundreds of tips and possible leads investigators were assessing and working on when Mangione was found in a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.
Two sources familiar with the investigation said local police shared with the FBI in San Francisco that based on the missing persons report, the wanted poster images of the suspected killer may look similar to Mangione. Agents in San Francisco then alerted the FBI in New York about the general tip before telling an NYPD field officer, according to sources.
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