CEO Shooting Suspect Melts Down At Courthouse — Analyst On CNN Asks Was It Just For The Cameras Or ‘Something Else’

Ex-FBI profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole wondered if the courthouse meltdown by Luigi Mangione — who was arrested Monday for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — was done for the benefit of TV cameras, or “something else.”

After a frantic manhunt, Mangione was apprehended when a McDonald’s employee in Altoona, Pennsylvania, recognized him from the many surveillance stills released after the shooting and called the police. He was arrested while in possession of multiple fake IDs, a 3D-printed gun with a suppressor, a manifesto and notebooks, and around $10,000.00 in hard currency.

Mangione is charged with:

• Murder in the Second Degree
• Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree
• Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree
• Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree
• Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree

As he was taken into the Blair County Courthouse Tuesday, Mangione melted down and had to be dragged inside by cops:

Is completely out of touch and is an insult to the intelligence of the American people and its lived experience!

On Tuesday’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta, anchor Jim Acosta was joined by O’Toole and CNN analyst Karen Friedman Agnifilo to break down new developments in the case, and Acosta asked what they made of the outburst:

JIM ACOSTA: One chilling notebook entry muses about killing quote “the CEO at his own bean counting conference.”

New images capture Mangione, munching a hashbrown at the McDonald’s where an employee alerted police and he was taken into custody. This is the latest mugshot of the 26 year old suspect.

He is being held in a Pennsylvania prison where he faces five charges, including second degree murder. He is fighting extradition back to New York and is denied bail.

His anger at corporate America boiled over as he arrived for the hearing.

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JIM ACOSTA: I want to bring in Mary Ellen O’Toole, a former FBI profiler and CNN legal analyst Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Ladies, good morning. Thanks so much for being here.

Karen, let me start with you. Your reaction to the fingerprints found at the murder scene apparently matching Mangione. What do you think about that?

KAREN FRIEDMAN AGNIFILO: Well, it’s clear that the evidence is piling up against him, that he is looking more and more like they are building a case that he committed this crime.

The question is going to be now, what are the charges from the prosecution’s standpoint and will there be some sort of defense to this case? Right. Some sort of whether it’s psychiatric defense? Was he not responsible?

I mean, given who he was and the family that he came from and the fact that he was this smart, very well adjusted kid who was valedictorian of his class, he was brilliant. He wasn’t one of these loner recluses. You know, clearly something has happened in his life to put him here.

And I think that’s where the evidence is going to focus to see will they be able to prove that he was responsible for this mentally at this point?

JIM ACOSTA: Yeah. Mary Ellen O’Toole, what did you make of that outburst we saw from the suspect we just played for the viewers a few moments ago? What does that tell you?

MARY ELLEN O’TOOLE: Well, I thought the outburst really was important to see. But but here’s what we don’t know. And it’s important to understand this.

We really do need to know what his demeanor was like in the car as he drove up to the venue. Was he quiet and was he calm? Or was he agitated at that point?

Because the reason I say that is once he gets out of the car, does he immediately become angry? And what provoked that? Was that the cameras or was it something else?

So to be able to put it in in some sort of a framework, we do have to understand that because it could have been as a result of the cameras pointed at him and he wanted to get attention.

It could, however, have been something else. We just don’t know.

Watch above via CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta.