Gypsy Rose Blanchard attends “An Evening with Lifetime: Conversations On Controversies” FYC event at The Grove on May 01, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)
Gypsy Rose Blanchard‘s partner Kenan Urker was found dead on his 34th birthday in what officials describe as an apparent drug-related incident, authorities said.
Officers discovered Urker dead when they responded to a call from a home in Raceland, Louisiana, on Thursday evening, according to the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Urker, who was lying on a bed, was cold and his face and arms were blue, according to the sheriff’s office. A paper towel on his arm appeared to have “blotches of blood” on it, the sheriff’s office said.
On the nightstand next to the bed was a holstered handgun, a syringe and two shot glasses, according to the sheriff’s office.
In the bathroom, deputies discovered syringes, a spoon and a “brown powdery substance,” the sheriff’s office said.
The sheriff’s office said there’s “no evidence of foul play.”
Blanchard wrote on Instagram on Friday, “You will always be my greatest love story. You will be remembered and loved forever.”
She added in an Instagram story that he was an “amazing father” and “will forever be my soulmate.”
In 2015, Blanchard and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn were arrested for the fatal stabbing of Blanchard’s mother, Clauddinnea “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
“Dee Dee” Blanchard had allegedly abused her daughter for years by convincing Gypsy Rose and the public that she was extremely sick, when she wasn’t. “Dee Dee” Blanchard allegedly portrayed her daughter as a frail, disabled child who suffered from multiple illnesses including leukemia and muscular dystrophy, subjecting her to a life in a wheelchair, a feeding tube and unnecessary surgeries.
After her release from prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard told ABC News she wanted to share her story “to bring awareness to mental health issues, to Munchausen by proxy, to abuse victims.”
She said she hoped her story would serve as a “cautionary tale” for others.
“So that the next person that might be in a situation like mine, they don’t take the route that I did,” she said.
Jyrell Thomas was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation Thursday morning. He was described by police as emotionally disturbed.
He was later arrested on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
Police said Thomas was pacing back and forth inside the train car and appeared agitated before approaching Mesias Lojano, 59, just after 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Lojano tried to walk away before Thomas swung at him with a kitchen knife, according to police.
Bismarck Villareyna witnessed the attack and recorded video aboard the train.
“I heard, oh somebody is being attacked, somebody being attacked. So I pulled out my phone, started walking, as you see in the video,” Villareyna said.
The violence eventually spilled onto a J train platform, where bystanders chased Thomas.
“There was an old man behind me – hold him! Hold him! Hold him! And that’s when he started running. And then I started running after him,” Villareyna said.
Villareyna said he considered trying to physically intervene but was concerned that he could also be stabbed.
“I wanted to kick him, but I say, you know, if I kick him and I miss or he stabbed me then. So I was getting my position. I tried to record to get, you know, evidence.”
Villareyna continued following Thomas and directed officers to him. Thomas climbed onto a rooftop, where he had to be lifted and carried away.
“Then he stopped there and he sat down and he was saying, ‘oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do it.’ But in some of my videos, I was, I was upset,” Villareyna said.
Thomas has one prior arrest, stemming from a robbery early last month in which he stole $23 of merchandise from a Bronx Target. He was charged with petit larceny, obstruction of governmental administration and criminal possession of stolen property.
This is the sixth homicide in the subway system this year. There were four murders in the system all of last year, and 10 in 2024.
There has been a 7% increase in assaults in the subway this year, with 441 vs 410 at this time last year.
Signage outside the US Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, US. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday it has found a potential source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak that was tied to lettuce over the summer.
The agency collected samples during its onsite inspections of Taylor Farms de Mexico facilities, it said.
Two samples tested positive for the parasite, Cyclospora, according to the FDA. One positive sample was from a tank that held outgoing wastewater from a processing facility, the agency said. The second positive sample was from a drainage ditch of an iceberg lettuce grower, it noted.
“While there is currently not enough evidence to conclusively determine how contamination occurred in this outbreak, the positive samples show that Cyclospora was present in the environment where lettuce was grown and processed,” the FDA wrote in an update on its website.
“This adds to the strong epidemiological data and traceback convergence supporting the link between this outbreak and recalled shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico,” the update continued.
The FDA said its investigation has closed. Health officials say they are confident that all recalled lettuce associated with this outbreak is off the market.
In a statement, a Taylor Fresh Foods spokesperson said its facility in central Mexico remains closed as the company works with its research team to implement enhanced safety protocols.
“The independent grower where a positive sample was found is no longer part of our supplier program,” the spokesperson said. “The sample FDA referenced came from discharged waste and sewer water outside of our processing facility. As FDA noted in its report, there is currently not enough evidence to conclusively determine how contamination occurred or how results for these samples relate to ongoing genotyping of clinical specimens.”
The statement concluded: “We remain concerned for the people and families impacted by this outbreak. Millions of families rely on the safety of Taylor Farms produce and we take that responsibility seriously. We know trust is earned by what we do, and we will continue to learn, improve and take action to keep our food fresh and safe.”
At least 12,883 people were infected with cyclosporiasis across 21 states after eating the recalled lettuce, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Thousands more cases were reported but health officials noted difficulties in tying infections to the recalled foods.
A total of 570 people were hospitalized and two people in Michigan died.
In mid-July, the FDA and the CDC announced they were investigating a multi-state outbreak of cyclosporiasisillnesses linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at some Taco Bell restaurants.
The lettuce was supplied to Taco Bell by Taylor Farms and sourced from central Mexico.
Taylor Farms de Mexico issued a voluntary recall of all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico, with the recall affecting 27 states. The recalled products were distributed from June 29 through July 16 and have best-if-used-by dates up to Aug. 3.
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks next to Rep. Ro Khanna at a town hall event, Feb. 20, 2026, in Stanford, Calif. (Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna are heading to California to rally Saturday in support of an initiative that would place a one-time, 5% tax on the wealth of billionaires in the state.
Their efforts to barnstorm the state come as early voting begins, and millions of dollars have been spent to kill the initiative.
The measure would affect roughly 200 of California’s billionaires, with the money going to cover federal Medi-Cal cuts. Gov. Gavin Newsom has become its most prominent opponent, arguing that the tax could be dodged by billionaires who could leave the state for another.
Prior to arriving in San Francisco, Khanna told ABC News that he and Newsom are “polar opposites” on the issue. Both have openly discussed that they are weighing a presidential bid in 2028.
“He [Newsom] doesn’t want to offend some of the billionaires who he wants to finance his campaigns, and that’s the question: Are we going to be a party for the working class? Are we going to be beholden to our donors?” Khanna said.
The congressman challenged Newsom to a debate, proposing holding town halls and talking to voters about this issue.
“I’m happy to debate him on this any time in the state,” he said.
Asked by reporters earlier this week about Sanders’ visit, Newsom said he has “enormous respect” for the senator, but on this specific issue, “we fundamentally disagree.”
In a statement to ABC News, a spokesperson for Newsom said, “The Governor supports a national tax on billionaires and is proud to stand with teachers, firefighters, reproductive health clinics, and others in opposing this poorly written state measure that will harm California.”
Newsom has shared a counterproposal: a national billionaire tax focused on loans taken against assets.
Tech investors have pushed back hard on the measure. Vinod Khosla warned that the state’s top wealth creators will leave, and Mark Cuban told Khanna he doesn’t understand business.
Khanna pointed to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
“Someone more successful than both of them, Jensen, is perfectly fine paying the tax, and he’s driving the economy more than either of them are these days,” Khanna said.
Asked about whether he was concerned about the proposed tax by Bloomberg Television, Huang said, “I’ve got to tell you, I have not even thought about it once. We chose to live in Silicon Valley, and whatever taxes they would like to apply, so be it. I’m perfectly fine with it.”
But billionaires have also been opening their wallets to fight the measure. Building a Better California, the flagship organization fighting the measure, has raised over $252 million, mostly from billionaires, according to public financial records. Top contributors include Google co-founder Sergey Brin (who has given $102 million), venture capitalist John Doerr (who has given $30 million) and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt (who has given $27 million).
Skeptics of Proposition 40, the official name for the billionaire tax ballot measure, say that the measure could ultimately reduce tax revenue by motivating wealthy Californians to relocate and take their wealth with them. According to an analysis from California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), the tax could generate revenues in the tens of millions in the short term but cause decreases in income tax revenue in the future.
No On Prop 40, a group funded by Building a Better California, is running several digital ads. Some of the ads say that the billionaire tax would lead to a decline in tax revenue, while others claim that the measure will lead to the state legislature approving wealth taxes on non-billionaires.
No on Prop 40’s website lists dozens of groups that are members of its “coalition” opposed to the tax. Among them is the California Farm Bureau.
Steven Fenaroli, a spokesperson for the group, says he thinks the billionaire tax will end up becoming “just another tax on farmers and ranchers.”
“When my members are looking at Prop 40, they see this slippery slope that we seem to have in California,” Fenaroli told ABC News.
David Lesperance, a tax lawyer who has helped several billionaires relocate from California, said, “My multi-billionaire clients… said, ‘We need to get out of here. That’s over a trillion dollars that have left.”
Yes on 40, the main group backing the measure, has received roughly $32.4 million, the vast majority from Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) and affiliated organizations.
Suzanne Jimenez, SEIU-UHW chief of staff, said the campaign expected to be heavily outspent.
“It was part of our plan,” Jimenez told ABC News. “I think the spending is actually counteracting what they’re intending to do, and it’s actually helping us in our conversations with voters.”
Several labor organizations, including California Professional Firefighters and California Teachers Association, are against the tax. When asked on a press call why labor groups would oppose a tax on billionaires, Sanders pointed to the media pumped out by the billionaire-backed anti-tax campaign.
“In America today, is it possible for a ballot item to win when it is being opposed by a handful of billionaires who are spending over $200 million?” Sanders asked. “That is the question. Do you still have a democracy in this country, or will billionaires rule?”
Khanna said that the fight over taxing the ultra-wealthy is already playing out in races across the country this year, “and you’re going to see that fight explode in 2028.”
“Will it hurt me in fundraising? Yes. Will there be powerful interests with big tech money and AIPAC money against me? Yes. Will it be enough? We’ll see,” he said.
In this July 27, 2022, file photo, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb is shown at City Hall in Cleveland, Ohio. (Sarah Rice for The Washington Post via Getty Images, FILE)
A group of 15 Democratic mayors governing in Republican-dominated states are building a new political operation that aims to influence national politics as a center-left alternative to both the MAGA movement and what they describe as “far-left dysfunction” from groups like the Democratic Socialists of America.
The organization — Blue Cities/Red States — is led by Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and will launch next week in Miami with a kickoff event hosted by its mayor, Eileen Higgins. The founding mayors lead cities including Atlanta, Jacksonville, Boise, Tulsa and Memphis — governing more than 7 million Americans across 11 red and purple states, according to a memo for the new coalition.
In an interview with ABC News, Bibb said he hopes these mayors will emerge as a kind of testing ground for a post-2024 Democratic message. He suggested that the party can rebuild trust among voters by zeroing in on things such as public safety, affordability, economic growth — things that these mayors often govern on, up against Republicans at times, Bibb said.
“As Democrats talk about closing the credibility gap, these 15 mayors have been closing that gap in their cities — without the cover of a Democratic governor or a Democratic-led legislature,” Bibb said.
Higgins, who was elected as Miami’s mayor in December as the first Democrat to serve in 28 years, also emphasized the group’s focus on working against the political extremes.
“Working for a more united states is a core theme of Blue Cities/Red States, and we do this by pushing back against extremism and promoting a more practical brand of leadership that focuses on results over rhetoric,” Higgins said. “This includes balancing the need to stand up for your community against harmful policies but also finding compromise solutions that deliver results.”
The group plans to have a permanent national platform, fundraising and organizational infrastructure, polling and message testing, and a national paid-media strategy heading into the 2026 and 2028 cycles, according to the memo.
Bibb claimed the group is also in talks with members of Congress about aligning their agendas.
“We want to influence the next speaker, and the next Congress, and the next president. We know what this next Congress should be focused on to address cost and affordability, to address public safety,” Bibb said.
“I think long term, it’s leaders like this that allows us to expand the map. As we saw in 2024, the ‘blue wall’ doesn’t exist anymore. So if you want to win in Idaho and Nebraska and Georgia and Arizona and Missouri and Ohio, we’ve got to invest in mayors, and I think mayors represent the best future for the Democratic Party.”
This group is building out just ahead of the midterms, when Democrats are expected to notch victories that could come as a result of President Donald Trump’s unpopularity rather than their own party’s image, a new Wall Street Journal poll shows.
According to the poll, Democrats received some of their lowest approval ratings in decades since Trump took office last year. They have a 38% favorable rating, just behind the Republican Party’s 39% favorability rating. President Trump’s current approval rating is at 37%.
In the Wall Street Journal poll, Democratic Socialists of America had just a 24% favorable rating.
Bibb said he hopes that by boosting these red-state Democratic mayors, Republicans could learn to trust Democrats.
“You know, poll after poll after poll shows that MAGA Republicans and Democrats agree that affordability is the No. 1 issue, but when you look at Republicans — and specifically MAGA Republicans — they don’t trust Democrats to actually execute. And this coalition is the answer to that question, and that’s our value proposition long term,” Bibb said.
A plane carrying passengers from an earlier Flydubai flight that was diverted to Saudi Arabia on September 30, 2026. (Photo by Erik Marmor/Getty Images)
The co-pilot of the FlyDubai plane who allegedly attacked the plane’s captain and attempted to crash a flight bound for Israel on Wednesday is an Omani national who was previously suspended from flying by Oman Air after being identified as a security risk, according to senior intelligence and law enforcement officials.
Multiple sources familiar with the investigation identified the suspected attacker as 29-year-old Hamam Al Hammami.
The officials told ABC News that Al Hammami, while working as a co-pilot trainee for Oman Air in 2024, was found to be in possession of extremist materials. The suspect was allowed to continue working for the airline in an administrative role, the sources said.
United Arab Emirates Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi on Saturday said the aircraft’s co-pilot had attempted to carry out a terrorist act and that he began executing his plan during the flight by assaulting the pilot inside the cockpit using a crash axe and attempted to seize control of the aircraft’s controls, according to WAM state news agency.
This is the first confirmation by UAE authorities that the co-pilot had attacked the captain and identified the weapon used as a crash axe. Previous UAE statements had described the incident as a security incident and said an investigation was underway to determine whether it involved terrorist activity or prior planning.
The attorney general stressed that investigations are still ongoing to establish all the circumstances and motives surrounding the incident, as well as any related links. He added that technical examinations and the analysis of physical and digital evidence are also being completed, with the final findings to be announced once the necessary procedures have been concluded.
Officials investigating the incident are still trying to determine how the suspected attacker was subsequently permitted to fly for FlyDubai and how he ended up as the first officer in the cockpit of a plane headed for Israel, the sources said.
Al Hammami — who was transferred Thursday from Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates — is said to be “cooperating” with authorities investigating the incident and has indicated that his intent was to crash the aircraft in Israel, according to sources briefed on the investigation.
“We recognise that there are many questions at this stage; however, the circumstances surrounding the incident are still under investigation,” FlyDubai said in a statement obtained by ABC News on Saturday. “We are therefore not in a position to comment further beyond our published statements. We remain fully committed to supporting the ongoing investigation and are in close coordination with the relevant government authorities and regulators.”
Representatives for Oman Air and the Omani Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
FlyDubai issued a statement earlier Friday, attributed to its chief executive officer, saying that, at the request of the authorities, FlyDubai had “temporarily suspended operations to Tel Aviv until further notice,” and saying “a full official investigation, led by the relevant authorities and fully supported by flydubai, is underway.”
A disaster was averted when the flight’s captain, Smit Machchhar, fought back and a number of passengers subdued and restrained the attacker, who had sent the plane into a rapid dive.
One of the passengers, Israeli plumber Yaniv Hayoun, said he pulled back on the controls to steady the plane until a third pilot, who was traveling in the passenger cabin, took over. The flight eventually landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
One of the passengers who ran to the front of the plane, Dr. Shota Musaev, told ABC News in an interview this week that the attacker — who was bloodied and restrained on the floor outside the cockpit — told him he was from Oman. Musaev said that at one point the suspect asked Musaev to kill him.
“He said, ‘Kill me please, kill me please,'” Musaev said.
Israeli officials are expected to be on the ground and involved in the questioning of Al Hammami, sources said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said that the suspected attacker, who he didn’t name, had undergone “Islamist radicalization.”
“He came to crash the plane with all passengers on board,” Netanyahu said in a video released by his office. “We are investigating whether he was sent, and whoever sent him will pay a very heavy price.”
Netanyahu also again heaped praise on Hayoun and the other heroic passengers for preventing a “tragedy like 9/11.”
A threadbare internet biography page believed to belong to the suspect indicated that he had studied aviation management at a British university and engineering at an Australian university.
A source at the Buckinghamshire New University confirmed that Al Hammami completed a three-year distance-learning course and graduated with a degree in aviation management in 2023. The source stressed that Al Hammami did not take any pilot training at the school.
Royal Air Maroc — Morocco’s national carrier — confirmed to ABC News that Al Hammami completed a three-month theoretical training period with the airline in 2025 as part of its pre-employment process. At the end of the training, he was not selected for employment, the airline confirmed, but it wouldn’t say why.
A representative for the school in Australia declined to comment and referred an inquiry from ABC News to the Australian federal police.
– ABC News’ Dragana Jovanovic contributed to this report.
A Gulfstream G100 Astra SPX aircraft operated by Latitude Air Ambulance, lands at Brussels-Zaventem Airport, Belgium, March 21, 2026. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images, FILES)
The U.S. Coast Guard was searching the waters off Massachusetts for a missing medical transfer plane with six people on board that went missing on Saturday morning, officials said.
The Federal Aviation Administration informed the Coast Guard they lost contact with the Gulfstream G-100 around 2 a.m., as the plane flew from Bermuda to Boston, according to the Coast Guard.
The Bermuda Skyport Corporation, which operates LF Wade International Airport, said in a statement that the Canadian-registered plane took off from the airport with four crew members and two passengers at around 12:41 a.m. on Saturday.
There were no Americans aboard the plane, a source with knowledge of the investigation told ABC News.
The Coast Guard is using air and sea vehicles to search around Nantucket, the agency said. As of Saturday 11:00 a.m., there had been no updates.
Officials believe the plane rapidly descended 7,500 feet before hitting the water, a source with knowledge of the investigation told ABC News.
At least two people were killed in a shooting at a strip mall near Cal State Northridge on Oct.2, 2026. LAPD responded to a call about a large party at The Artists Lounge when officers heard gunshots on arrival. (KABC)
At least two people were killed Friday in a shooting at a Los Angeles strip mall, according to police.
The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a 911 call about a large party at the mall near Cal State Northridge around 11 p.m. when officers heard gunshots, ABC local station KABC reported.
Two people were killed, and it was not immediately clear if there were other injuries, authorities said.
Officers were seen placing several people in handcuffs and taking them away after the shooting. Police hadn’t announced any arrests or released a suspect description as of early Saturday.
Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters on September 24, 2026 in New York City. (Ryan Murphy/Getty Images)
OpenAI on Friday revealed another hack into a second Australian government agency, a week after the disclosure of an initial hack fueled public backlash against the ChatGPT-maker.
An AI model gained access to fire statistics kept by a state agency in New South Wales (NSW) that were not publicly available from the department, OpenAI said in a statement to ABC News on Friday.
The company discovered the incident as part of a wider investigation into “misaligned model activity,” OpenAI said.
The AI model, according to OpenAI, queried the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service’s Fire History service in a manner that “went beyond its intended use, gathering summary fire statistics that weren’t publicly available through the service.”
“The results we reviewed do not show that the model retrieved any personal information,” OpenAI added.
The office of NSW Premier Chris Minns did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
In a statement to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Premier’s Department said it believes the incident took place in June, but OpenAI informed government officials about it on Thursday.
A host of NSW government agencies is working to “to investigate the matter and assess its impact,” the Premier’s Department said in the statement.
The cybersecurity breach marks the second disclosure of an OpenAI hack of an Australian government agency in a matter of days, and the revelation adds to a flurry of security incidents revealed by the San Francisco-based tech company in recent months.
In the previously disclosed hack, an OpenAI agent “infiltrated” an Australian public health website earlier this summer, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters last week.
The incident happened in June and involved a rogue AI agent gaining access to both public and non-public files associated with the Australian Medicare Statistics Reporting Portal, Albanese said.
Albanese said he has spoken with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “to express Australia’s extreme concern about this incident” and said he also “expressed his disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable.”
In a statement at the time, an OpenAI spokesperson said the incident was discovered in August as the company conducted what it called an extensive review of “misaligned model activity.”
“During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation. In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson said Australian officials were notified on Sept. 10.
“Our review found no evidence of patient records being accessed. The information accessed included aggregate health statistics and internal file names,” the spokesperson added.
OpenAI issued an apology for the security breach last week.
“We are sorry and working to do better in the future,” OpenAI said in a statement. “One of the ways we intend to take accountability for the situation is to be intentional in working with Australia to help develop practical approaches to how AI developers and governments identify, disclose, and respond to AI cyber behavior, whether malicious or unintentional.”
Some analysts expressed serious concern about AI safety risks after an autonomous cyberattack disclosed by OpenAI in August. The company said that its AI models had escaped a “sandboxed testing environment” and gained access to the open internet.
A swarm of about 700 AI agents, in turn, hacked into AI firm Hugging Face and attempted to cover their tracks as they sought to complete the test, according to reports issued by research organizations METR and Redwood Research.
“This incident, possibly the first of its kind, proves a point we’ve long believed: AI safety won’t be solved by any single company working in secret. It will be solved in the open, collaboratively, with broad access to AI for every defender, everywhere,” Clem Delangue, the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, said in a statement on at the time of OpenAI’s disclosure in July.
Altman announced that the company dialed back the pace of its AI development earlier this month. “The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened,” Altman said in a post on X at the time.
OpenAI signaled further restraint toward its AI models this week, pausing the release of its latest AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, due to security concerns.
In this handout photo released by the Altoona Police Department, Luigi Mangione is seen in a holding cell after being taken into custody, Dec. 9, 2024, in Altoona, Pa. (Altoona Police Department via Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — For the first time, the public can see the full body camera footage of Luigi Mangione’s arrest and his subsequent strip search at the Altoona Police Department in Pennsylvania.
The footage was released Friday after news outlets, including ABC News, petitioned the court.
Mangione was taken into custody in Altoona in December 2024, days after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan. The video includes the search of Mangione’s bag when he was apprehended at an Altoona McDonald’s, the retrieval of the murder weapon and Mangione’s transport in a squad car.
This is the first time most of the footage has been seen outside court, including a redacted version of Mangione’s strip search.
The video included much of what was played during a three-week evidentiary hearing when defense attorneys argued the evidence should be suppressed. The judge decided much of it could be used but kept it under seal.
In August, Mangione pleaded guilty to two federal stalking counts in connection with Thompson’s killing, and now the Manhattan district attorney’s office is facing a deadline later this month to respond to Mangione’s motion to dismiss the state indictment against him.
Mangione admitted to the crime in federal court in August, saying, “I used a 3-D printer to make part of a gun, and I equipped the gun with the silencer and the magazine.”
“I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died,” he said, adding, “I knew what I was doing was illegal.”
Mangione’s sentencing in the federal case is set for Dec. 18.
