(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 Township, PA) A judge ruled yesterday that the trial in Pennsylvania for Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York on December 4th, 2024, is now effectively on hold. The reasons for this trial being on hold are because Mangione refuses to appear remotely and he remains in custody on federal and state charges in New York. The judge that ruled that Mangione’s trial will be on hold gave Mangione and his defense attorneys two weeks to reconsider appearing remotely or to file a formal request for a hearing in-person. November 7th, 2025 was when Mangione was supposed to be in a court in Blair Township, Pennsylvania, but that hearing was canceled because the defense team of Mangione asserted his right to appear for his court hearings in-person.