I guess I have to confess that I broke my self-imposed news blackout* of more than a month, to learn a little about the manhunt that ended in the capture of Luigi Mangione (the 26-year old man charged with killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week with a ghost gun).
*No Twitter, no Washington Post, no MSNBC cable news, no NBC Nightly News, no Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), no National Public Radio (NPR), no King5 (local) news.
Just a little Seattle Times and New York Times, to read about the end of the war in Syria.
“If someone you know is the subject of a nationwide manhunt and the authorities are desperately trying to learn the person’s name, are you under any legal obligation to come forward with it?
The answer is, in a word, no.”
(In this case, an employee at the McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, recognized Mangione and called 911. Even so, it’s not clear the person will get the reward money. There is a complicated review process and in some cases the alleged criminal needs to be convicted first. And of course: very arrogant or stupid or careless of Mangione to show up in a public place such as a McDonalds, while a national manhunt is underway for him. )