Luigi Mangione, charged in the murder of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, confers with one of his attorneys as he awaits the start of a pretrial hearing in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Dec. 11, 2025. State prosecutors in New York asked a judge on Wednesday to set a July trial date for the murder case against Luigi Mangione, months ahead of a parallel federal trial in which he is charged with killing a health care executive in Midtown. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)
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NEW YORK — State prosecutors in New York asked a judge Wednesday to set a July trial date for the murder case against Luigi Mangione, months before a parallel federal trial in which he is charged with killing a health care executive in New York City.
The proposed start date could create a conflict with the beginning of jury selection in the federal case, which is currently scheduled to begin in September.
Manhattan prosecutors said in a letter to the judge, Justice Gregory Carro, that they were waiting only on his ruling on what evidence would be allowed at trial.
Mangione, 27, was arrested in December 2024 after the shooting death of Brian Thompson, then the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, one of America’s largest insurers. Thompson was shot while walking into a Hilton hotel on West 54th Street in midtown Manhattan to prepare for an investors’ gathering. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days later. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges in both federal and state court.
After Mangione was arrested, federal and state prosecutors appeared to have arrived at an agreement on which case was set to go to trial first. But under President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice pushed to start the federal trial immediately and seek the death penalty if Mangione is convicted. The letter from state prosecutors Wednesday appears to be an attempt to ensure he is first tried in state court.
In Manhattan state court, he is charged with second-degree murder in the killing, for which he faces a sentence of 25 years to life, among nine other counts. In federal court, he is charged with four counts, including two stalking charges, a firearms offense and one count of using a firearm to commit murder, which is eligible for the death sentence. New York does not have the death penalty.
The judge in the federal case, Margaret Garnett of U.S. District Court, has said she is likely to rule on several motions this week, including whether Mangione will face a death penalty charge at trial.
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This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
By Hurubie Meko/Jefferson Siegel
c. 2026 The New York Times Company
