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If the assassination of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson — and the suspect Luigi Mangionealleged involvement — sounds familiar, that’s why Law and order: SVU posted the episode which depicts a similar story more than 20 years ago.
In a 2002 episode titled “Undercovered,” fictional insurance executive Warren Slater (Joseph Culliton) found dead on the streets of Manhattan. Viewers later learn that he was killed by a father named Tony Garcia (Juan Carlos Hernandez), whose nine-year-old daughter Courtney (Courtney Beceiro) was fighting leukemia. Tony killed Warren after the executive cast the deciding vote on the panel to deny Courtney expensive treatment.
Mangione, 26, is in the meantime suspected of shooting and killing Thompson outside the entrance to the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in New York City earlier this month. After a five-day manhunt, Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday, December 9, while eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Wendy Battleswho is a co-author Law and order episode with Noah Bailinhe weighed the similarities with Thomson’s death.
PA/MEGA State Police Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man suspected of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan, was arrested by law enforcement officials on Dec. 9 after a five-day manhunt. Photos of Mangione in police custody then circulated online, and some celebrities … liked what they saw. “Does he need (…)
“Noah and I exchanged messages. “We both immediately recognized that there were parallels,” Battles said Vanity Fair in an interview published on Wednesday, December 11.
Battles said the script was inspired by her own life, adding: “When I was in high school, my father – who was 40 at the time – had six kids and ran his own business, he got type 1 diabetes. After that diagnosis, he was denied insurance, needed a lot of treatment and had to to go to Boston, to the Joslin Clinic, all on his own dime.
She continued, “And this is a man who has paid all his premiums his whole life. So that’s what I’m left with. Fortunately, he could afford it, but there were tens of millions of people in the same situation who couldn’t.”
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Gluttony was accused of murder and faces four additional charges, including one count of forgery and criminal possession of a firearm. His lawyer Thomas Dickey shared in a statement that he is expected to plead not guilty to murder charges in New York and gun charges in Pennsylvania.
“I didn’t see any evidence that he was the shooter,” Dickey told reporters on Tuesday, Dec. 10. “Remember, and this is no small thing: a fundamental concert of American justice is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” And I’ve seen zero evidence at this point.”
