UnitedHealthcare CEO killing: Hotel clerk says ‘cagey’ suspect Luigi Mangione sought room [Video]

ALTOONA, Pa. — Before he was arrested, Luigi Mangione walked into the Horseshoe Curve Lodge in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday looking for a room, according to the desk clerk who greeted him and noticed what he described as the man’s shifty behavior.

“He basically just walked in kind of cagey, just looking around, making sure he wasn’t being watched, asked if he could get a room here,” the hotel clerk, John Kuklis, told ABC News.

But that wasn’t the reason Kuklis had to turn the man away. They didn’t have a clean room available at that early hour, he said.

“I told him that he wouldn’t be able to get one right now, that our housekeeper hadn’t cleaned the rooms yet, that he had to come back at one o’clock. He asked if he could wait here. I told him no, because at the time, I didn’t know that I could just allow …