(File Photo: Source for Photo: Luigi Mangione is escorted into Manhattan state court in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Blair County, PA) The hearing in Blair County, Pennsylvania scheduled on November 7th, 2025 for twenty-seven-year-old Luigi Mangione, who is accused of allegedly killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4th, 2024, got canceled because Mangione refused to appear in court remotely. Mangione asserted the right for him to be present in person for the court hearing in Blair County, Pennsylvania on November 7th, 2025 and all subsequent court appearances, but the federal government denied his request to make an appearance in Blair County. According to the criminal complaint, Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania on December 9th, 2024 in connection to the killing of Thompson, and is facing charges there, including carrying a firearm without a license, forgery, tampering with records or identification, false identification to law enforcement, and possessing instruments of crime. Mangione is being held in New York with nine state charges as well as federal charges and the federal charges carry the possibility of the death penalty for him. The hearing for Mangione is now on hold and every sixty days in when the court must be updated on his ability to appear.