More than 10,000 people had contributed an average of about $30 to Luigi Mangione’s defense fund when his legal team indicated it would accept the donations, according to a post on Monday on the GiveSendGo platform that is hosting a fundraising campaign in his benefit.
A group calling itself The December 4th Legal Committee raised the money on GiveSendGo that Mangione’s defense team has said it would accept.
Authorities allege that Mangione, 26, shot Brian Thompson, 50, to death in plain view of a surveillance camera as the UnitedHealthcare chief walked to an investor conference in midtown Manhattan on the morning of 4 December.
Man charged with health insurance CEO murder to accept $300,000 in donations Lawyer says 26-year-old accused ‘very much appreciates the outpouring of support’ on fundraising platform.
The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, said Mangione deserved the terrorism accusations because the killing blamed on him was a “frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation”.
