【中美创新时报2024 年 12 月 11 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）“这是有针对性的、精确的，不会危及无辜者，”被控谋杀布莱恩·汤普森的男子的一本螺旋笔记本上有这样一句话。据两名执法官员称，被控在曼哈顿一家公司投资者日外杀害联合健康保险公司首席执行官的 路易吉·曼吉奥内（Luigi Mangione ）被捕时携带了一本详细记录枪击计划的笔记本。《纽约时报》记者Ashley Southall 和 Maria Cramer对此作了下述报道。
官员们说，笔记本描述了去参加会议并杀死一名高管的情况。
“你会怎么做？你在一年一度的寄生虫会计师大会上打首席执行官。官员们说，笔记本中有一段写道：“它有针对性，精准，不会危及无辜。”
12 月 4 日凌晨，高管布莱恩·汤普森 (Brian Thompson) 被枪杀，当时汤普森先生抵达西 54 街的希尔顿酒店外，准备参加联合健康保险投资者会议。袭击者骑自行车逃走，然后失踪。
纽约警方官员能够将曼吉奥尼先生的指纹与在犯罪现场附近找到的水瓶和 Kind 零食包装纸上的指纹进行匹配，纽约警察局局长杰西卡·蒂施 (Jessica Tisch) 在周三的新闻发布会上表示。
蒂施局长表示，纽约警方现在拥有了曼吉奥尼先生周一在宾夕法尼亚州阿尔图纳被捕时在他身上发现的未注册枪支。她说，警方将其带到了该部门的犯罪实验室，在那里他们将其与在犯罪现场发现的三个弹壳进行了匹配。警方官员在周三下午与记者的简报会上表示，犯罪实验室确认他们与嫌疑人的枪械相符。
一名执法官员表示，警方还在分析本周在中央公园发现的一袋子弹，看它们是否与这起谋杀案有关。
26 岁的 Mangione 周一被捕，此前，一名认出他的顾客向 Altoona 的一家麦当劳员工提供了线索。他因谋杀罪名被拒绝保释，正在争取引渡到纽约，这一过程可能需要数周时间。
“他正在抗辩，”他的律师 Thomas Dickey 周二表示。Dickey 周三没有立即回应置评请求。
官员称，Mangione 被捕时，他持有所谓的幽灵枪、消音器和假身份证，这些证件与凶手使用的证件类似。他还有写着真名的身份证件。
警方在周三的简报会上表示，警方还发现曼吉奥内携带一个法拉第袋，这种袋子可以屏蔽电磁信号，防止手机被追踪。
他还手写了一份 262 字的便条，开头似乎承认了对谋杀案的责任。这份被官员称为宣言的便条还提到了一本笔记本的存在。CNN 最先报道了笔记本的发现。
据纽约警察局的一份内部报告称，嫌疑人将杀人事件视为“象征性的打击”，该报告详细介绍了这份三页文件的部分内容。报告称，他“很可能将自己视为某种英雄，最终决定对这种不公正采取行动”。
周二下午，在前往法庭的路上，曼吉奥内大喊“这是对美国人民智商和生活经历的侮辱”。目前尚不清楚他指的是什么，因为警员们正努力将他推入法院。周三，布莱尔县警长詹姆斯·E·奥特 (James E. Ott) 表示，曼吉奥内先生并没有给警员带来任何麻烦。
曼吉奥内先生来自巴尔的摩一个庞大而显赫的家族，就读于该市的一所精英高中，毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学。他曾在多家科技公司工作，对开发电脑游戏有着长期的兴趣。
多年来，他在 Reddit 账户上发帖，描述了一系列改变生活的健康问题。他说，他的背痛一直恶化，直到 2023 年接受手术，他还一直在与“脑雾”作斗争。但他在帖子中唯一提到保险范围的是蓝十字蓝盾 (Blue Cross Blue Shield) 承保了肠易激综合征的检测。
大约六个月前，曼吉奥内先生停止与朋友和家人联系。他的母亲上个月提交了一份失踪人员报告。
本杰明·布拉夫曼是纽约一位著名的辩护律师，他的客户包括肖恩·康布斯、哈维·韦恩斯坦和多米尼克·斯特劳斯·卡恩。周三，他表示，警方已经收集了“压倒性”数量的证据，曼吉奥内先生几乎没有空间在审判中进行可行的辩护。
“这是一次相当明目张胆的暴力行为，”布拉夫曼先生说。“鉴于曼哈顿似乎没有一寸土地没有被录像设备覆盖，很难解释所发生的事情。”
不过，他说，这并不意味着检察官的工作会很轻松。他们将很难找到不认为自己受到医疗行业不公平对待的陪审员。
“我认为大多数人在被问及这个问题时都会说，‘是的，我处理过一个令我不满的医疗保健行业，’”他说。“但他们没有出去处决一家保险公司的负责人。”
纽约市的警察官员已经担心枪击事件可能会引发其他暴力事件，他们注意到，曼哈顿人行道上贴满了印有知名企业高管照片的模拟“通缉”海报。社交媒体上的一段视频显示了三张印有高管照片的传单；其中一张传单上印着汤普森先生的脸，上面有一个X。
警察局在其内部报告中包含了部分图片，警告称社交媒体上的人们正在庆祝枪击事件并鼓励更多高管被杀。报告提到“高管在短期内面临的威胁加剧”，并表示“存在广泛的极端分子可能将曼吉奥内视为烈士和榜样的风险。”
周一，曼吉奥内先生在麦当劳被捕，几个小时后，一名年轻女子站在外面，举着一块牌子，上面写着“腐败的保险公司首席执行官必须下台”。
题图：标记表明在曼哈顿中城布莱恩·汤普森被杀现场发现的弹壳。调查人员在一些弹道证据上发现了指纹。图片来源：Karsten Moran 为《纽约时报》撰稿
附原英文报道：
Police Say Suspect’s Notebook Described Rationale for C.E.O. Killing
“It’s targeted, precise and doesn’t risk innocents,” said a sentence in a spiral notebook belonging to the man charged with murdering Brian Thompson.
A loading zone on a Manhattan street demarcated with crime tape.
Markers indicate bullet casings found at the scene of Brian Thompson’s killing in Midtown Manhattan. Investigators found fingerprints on some ballistic evidence.Credit…Karsten Moran for The New York Times
By Ashley Southall and Maria Cramer
Dec. 11, 2024
Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with killing the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare outside a company investors’ day in Manhattan, was arrested with a notebook that detailed plans for the shooting, according to two law enforcement officials.
The notebook described going to a conference and killing an executive, the officials said.
“What do you do? You wack the C.E.O. at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents,” was one passage written in the notebook, the officials said.
The shooting of the executive, Brian Thompson, occurred early Dec. 4 as Mr. Thompson arrived on West 54th Street outside a Hilton hotel to prepare for the UnitedHealthcare investors’ meeting. His assailant escaped on a bicycle and then disappeared.
Police officials in New York were able to match Mr. Mangione’s fingerprints to those on a water bottle and a Kind snack bar wrapper recovered near the crime scene, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference on Wednesday.
Commissioner Tisch said the New York police now have the unregistered gun that was found in Mr. Mangione’s possession when he was arrested in Altoona, Pa., on Monday. The police brought it to the department’s crime lab, where they matched it to the three shell casings that were found at the crime scene, she said. The crime lab confirmed they matched the suspect’s, police officials said in a briefing with reporters on Wednesday afternoon.
The police were also analyzing a bag of bullets found this week in Central Park to see if they were connected to the killing, one of the law enforcement officials said.
Mr. Mangione, 26, was captured Monday after a tip from an employee at a McDonald’s in Altoona, who was alerted by a customer who recognized him. He has been denied bail on a murder charge and is fighting extradition to New York, a process that could take weeks.
“He is contesting it,” his lawyer, Thomas Dickey, said on Tuesday. Mr. Dickey did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
When Mr. Mangione was arrested, he had the so-called ghost gun, a suppressor and false identification cards similar to those believed to have been used by the killer, officials said. He also had identification bearing his real name.
The police also found Mr. Mangione with a Faraday bag, which blocks electromagnetic signals and prevents a cellphone from being tracked, the police said at the briefing on Wednesday.
He also had a 262-word handwritten note, which begins by appearing to take responsibility for the murder. The note, which officials described as a manifesto, also mentioned the existence of a notebook. The recovery of the notebook was first reported by CNN.
The suspect saw the killing as a “symbolic takedown,” according to a New York Police Department internal report that detailed parts of the three-page document. He “likely views himself as a hero of sorts who has finally decided to act upon such injustices,” the report said.
On his way into court on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Mangione shouted about “an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience.” It was not clear what he was referring to as deputies worked to push him into the courthouse. On Wednesday, the sheriff of Blair County, James E. Ott, said that Mr. Mangione had not otherwise given deputies any problems.
Mr. Mangione, part of a sprawling and prominent Baltimore family, went to an elite high school in the city and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He had worked at several tech companies and had a long interest in developing computer games.
In years of posts on a Reddit account, he described a series of life-altering health problems. He said that he had back pain that worsened until a surgery in 2023 and that he had struggled with “brain fog.” But his only reference to insurance coverage in the posts noted that Blue Cross Blue Shield had covered testing for irritable bowel syndrome.
Mr. Mangione stopped communicating with friends and family about six months ago. His mother filed a missing-person report last month.
Benjamin Brafman, a prominent defense lawyer in New York whose clients have included Sean Combs, Harvey Weinstein and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said Wednesday that the police had amassed an “overwhelming” amount of evidence that left little room for Mr. Mangione to mount a viable defense at trial.
“This was a rather brazen act of violence,” Mr. Brafman said. “Given that there doesn’t seem to be an inch of Manhattan that isn’t covered in video recording devices, it’s hard to explain away what happened.”
Still, he said, that did not mean that prosecutors’ jobs would be easy. They will have a hard time finding jurors who do not feel they have been treated unfairly by the health care industry.
“I think most people when questioned about that issue will say, ‘Yeah, I dealt with a health care industry that I was unhappy with,’” he said. “But they didn’t go out and execute the head of an insurance company.”
Police officials in New York City, already concerned that the shooting might inspire other violence, have noted that numerous mock “Wanted” posters with images of high-profile corporate executives had been posted along Manhattan sidewalks. A video on social media showed three fliers with images of top executives; one of the fliers featured Mr. Thompson’s face with an X over it.
The Police Department included some of the images in its internal report, which warned that people on social media were celebrating the shooting and encouraging more killings of executives. The report mentioned “an elevated threat facing executives in the near term” and said there was “a risk that a wide range of extremists may view Mangione as a martyr and an example to follow.”
Just hours after Mr. Mangione was arrested on Monday at the McDonald’s, a young woman was standing outside holding a sign that said “Corrupt insurance C.E.O.s have got to go.”
