Lawyers for Luigi Mangione are asking police and prosecutors either to prove that Mangione’s mother told them the Midtown shooting of a health care executive “might be something that she could see him doing,” or correct the record.

In a December 2024 press conference, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said an officer contacted Kathleen Mangione after she’d filed a missing persons report in San Francisco. After police shared a picture of the suspect, Kenny said she didn’t indicate it was her son in the photograph but said that the shooting “might” be something he would do.

Defense attorneys now say there’s no evidence Mangione’s mother ever said this.

“In fact, all the discovery provided so far indicates that she did not make such a statement,” Mangione’s attorney, Karen Friedman Agn

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