Police sergeant denies hearing Luigi Mangione mother's alleged damning statement about CEO killing

A San Francisco constabulary sergeant says helium isn't the researcher who heard a perchance damning — and highly disputed — connection from the parent of accused assassin Luigi Mangione, that the ambush slaying of a wellness security CEO was "something she could spot him doing," according to a caller report.

Mangione is accused of stalking UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a 50-year-old begetter of two, and shooting him successful the backmost extracurricular a Manhattan edifice past year.

At a quality briefing connected Dec. 17, 2024, 8 days aft Mangione's arrest, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters that Kathleen Mangione appeared to admit the anticipation that her lad could person committed the transgression successful a speech connected Dec. 7, 2 days earlier Mangione's seizure astatine a Pennsylvania McDonald's.

"They had a speech wherever she didn't bespeak that it was her lad successful the photograph, but she said it mightiness beryllium thing that she could spot him doing," Kenny told reporters. "So that accusation was going to beryllium passed on to the detectives the adjacent morning, but fortunately we apprehended him earlier we could enactment connected that."

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Luigi Mangione, charged with the execution of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, appears successful State Supreme Court successful Manhattan during an grounds suppression proceeding successful his lawsuit connected Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (Curtis Means for Daily Mail via Pool)

Kenny's remarks were wide reported by large quality outlets, including Fox News Digital, and astatine slightest 1 book.

However, aft turning implicit find to the defense, Mangione's lawyers said successful tribunal filings they recovered nary grounds of the remark constabulary attributed to their client's mother.

Sgt. Michael Horan, of the San Francisco Police Department, took a missing idiosyncratic study from Mangione's parent weeks earlier the murder, connected Nov. 18, 2024. She couldn't find her son, who had seemingly gone disconnected the grid for months.

Kenny said the detective moving that case, aboriginal identified arsenic Horan, called his NYPD counterparts and said the idiosyncratic helium was looking for "bears a resemblance" to the representation of the smiling fishy seen checking into a Manhattan hostel earlier Thompson's murder.

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Luigi Mangione allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group via AP)

However, Horan successful a caller interrogation denied taking portion successful immoderate speech wherever the parent said she could person seen her lad carrying retired an assassination.

"That was ne'er from us," helium told Rolling Stone successful an interrogation published past week.

Horan said helium took the missing idiosyncratic study earlier the execution and ne'er spoke with Kathleen Mangione aft her lad was identified arsenic a suspect.

"After we made the transportation betwixt our lawsuit and the New York case, we ne'er spoke with the parent again," Horan told the magazine. "I bash judge that the FBI spoke with the parent that play portion they were trying to confirm, truthful that mightiness person been a speech that they had with her."

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Luigi Mangione, charged with the execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears successful State Supreme Court successful Manhattan during an grounds suppression proceeding successful his lawsuit connected Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (William Farrington for New York Post via Pool)

He said San Francisco constabulary did talk with 1 of Mangione's sisters, however, but she didn't bring it up.

Mangione's attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, told reporters extracurricular a Manhattan courthouse earlier this period that Kenny's assertion astir Kathleen Mangione was incorrect.

"There is nary specified statement," she said. "It was ne'er made. In fact, what Mrs. Mangione said was that she could ne'er spot her lad being a hazard to himself oregon others."

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Luigi Mangione pictured successful a booking photograph taken soon aft his apprehension successful Altoona, Pennsylvania. (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections)

Neither the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's bureau nor the NYPD responded to requests for remark connected the filing from Fox News Digital.

Mangione has pleaded not blameworthy to charges successful New York, Pennsylvania and national courts.

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He could look the decease punishment if convicted of the astir superior national charges and beingness successful situation successful the Empire State.

Fox News' Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.