• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    wouldn’t have gone so far out of state so quickly

    Nah, that part I get, they knew shooter came in on a bus, so they grab someone on a bus.

    The gun, silencer, and manifesto could have been from the central park bag.

    It’d just be crazy they wrapped the one guy on a Greyhound bus with generational wealth.

    His best defense is pushing that angle, the “but how did you find me?”

    Like, this part has barely been mentioned:

    Authorities said a customer in the restaurant thought he matched the description of the suspect in Thompson’s killing and notified an employee, who called 911.

    https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-worker-luigi-mangione-private-security-1999217

    To me it’s more likely that customer was a fed or law enforcement, they already knew he was there, they just needed a legal way to act on that. There’s been a big push to put all the blame on the fast food worker, but I have a feeling stuff like that would have kept happening and may not even have been the first person told.

    It’s no “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams”, but you could build a legal defense on this that results in all charges thrown out.