UnitedHealthcare Headquarters Intruder Detained, Months After CEO Killed

The Minnetonka Police Department said it had detained an adult male after reports of an intruder near UnitedHealthcare’s Minnesota headquarters.
UnitedHealthcare Headquarters Intruder Detained, Months After CEO Killed
A sign stands on UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s campus in Minnetonka, Minn., on Oct. 16, 2012. Jim Mone/AP Photo
Juliette Fairley
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The Minnetonka Police Department announced on April 14 that officers detained an adult male after reports of an intruder near UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters in a Minneapolis suburb.

“There is currently a large police presence at the United Healthcare campus,” the department wrote on social media platform X at 11:30 a.m. “A suspect outside of United Healthcare has been placed into custody without incident.”

The police department said it is monitoring the situation.

“There is no threat to the public,” it said. “We are continuing to clear the scene at this time.”

Although there were no reports of injuries, more than a dozen law enforcement cars and an ambulance were on the scene.

Authorities have not provided any other details about the incident or the reported intruder as of Monday afternoon.

The incident occurred a little more than four months after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed in New York City on Dec. 4, 2024. Thompson was walking to an investor conference in midtown Manhattan when he was fatally shot.

The murder suspect is 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League graduate from a family invested in real estate in Maryland.

He has pleaded not guilty to the state charges of murder and terror. Mangione also faces federal charges, which were handed down on Dec. 19, 2024.

“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement online on April 1. “After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.”

In response to Bondi’s statement, Mangione’s attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, vowed to fight the charges against her client.

“By seeking to murder Luigi Mangione, the Justice Department has moved from the dysfunctional to the barbaric,” Agnifilo said in a statement online. “Their decision to execute Luigi is political and goes against the recommendation of the local federal prosecutors, the law, and historical precedent. This is a corrupt web of government dysfunction and one-upmanship. Luigi is caught in a high-stakes game of tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors, except the trophy is a young man’s life.”

Prosecutors allege that Mangione stalked the CEO before shooting him, and a manhunt followed. Some health insurers were so rattled by the shooting that they switched to remote work or online meetings.

Juliette Fairley
Juliette Fairley
Freelance reporter
Juliette Fairley is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times and NTD and a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Born in Chateauroux, France, and raised outside of Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, Juliette is a well-adjusted military brat. She has written for many publications across the country. Send Juliette story ideas at [email protected]