Add The New York Post on Google Luigi Mangione’s wild ride through the justice system stalled out Monday — when he got stuck in a Manhattan court elevator for 20 minutes, delaying a hearing in his federal case.
The 28-year-old accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was in the lift with his escort of US Marshals, headed to the courtroom, when the contraption suddenly stopped, courthouse sources told The Post.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Dominic Gentile speaks as Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson, sits with his defense attorneys Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo during his federal court hearing in New York City. REUTERS “It was some sort of elevator issue, that’s all I know,” Mangione’s lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said when asked about the snafu outside the courtroom.
“Can’t wait to hear what you guys find out about that!” she added when another journalist grilled her for specifics on the elevator situation.
After a brief delay, Mangione, clad in tan jail scrubs, eventually made it to the courtroom, where Judge Margaret Garnett pushed his federal trial back to January 2027 to allow time for a separate state case starting Sept. 8.
His federal trial had been supposed to start in October, but Garnett said she did not want both trials to potentially take place concurrently.
Mangione, a prep-school and Ivy League grad and the scion of a wealthy Maryland family, has pleaded not guilty to executing Thompson in a targeted December 2024 hit on a Midtown sidewalk, possibly over anger over the country’s healthcare system.
