Newly released audio from a 911 call reveals the moment a nervously giggling Pennsylvania McDonald’s manager reported that alleged United Healthcare assassin Luigi Mangione might be in the restaurant.
“911 – what is the address of your emergency?” the 911 operator can be heard asking the female worker in the full audio of the call released Thursday.
The manager worker responds in the Dec. 9, 2024, exchange that restaurant-goers spotted the accused killer, although, “Um, it’s not really an emergency.
“I have a customer here that some other customers were suspicious of, that he looks like the CEO shooter from New York,” the worker says, laughing nervously in disbelief at the McDonald’s in Altoona.
“They’re just really upset,” she says of the customers. “They’re like coming to me, and I was like, ‘Well, I can’t approach him, you know.’
The dispatcher replies, “Of course not” and asks if the suspect is “still there?”
The worker says he is and that he is wearing a black sweater jacket with a medical mask on and a tan beanie pulled down — with only his famous big bushy eyebrows exposed.
“The only thing you can see is his eyebrows,” said the manager, whose name was not released. “He’s by the back of our lobby by the bathroom.”
Mangione, who had allegedly executed company CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown five days earlier, fled the Big Apple and was in hiding when the eagle-eyed customers recognized him.
The suspect appeared in Manhattan court this week for pretrial hearing this week and faces up to life in prison for allegedly gunning down Thompson outside the company’s annual investor conference.
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