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An employee allegedly stabbed his company's president in what is being investigated as a potential "copycat" attack of UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder.
Nathan Mahoney, 32, was charged with assault with intent to murder and fleeing a police officer, according to PEOPLE.com. Mahoney is accused of stabbing Erik Denslow, the president of the manufacturing company Anderson Express Inc., in the firm's Muskegon office on Tuesday (December 17), according to a statement from the Fruitport Township Police Department.
Denslow wasn't initially named as the victim by law enforcement officials, but later identified by local news stations News 8 and FOX 17 and reported to be hospitalized in critical condition, but expected to survive the attack. Fruitport Township Deputy Police Chief Greg Poulson said the department hasn't established a motive, but isn't ruling out the possibility that the attack was a "copycat" of the shooting of Thompson in Manhattan earlier this month.
“I think that comes to everyone’s mind in this time. We’re going through all his social accounts, all his electronic media and trying to determine a motive for this act,” Poulson told News 8.
Luigi Mangione, the suspect in Thompson's murder, was indicted on 11 counts, including first-degree murder, on Tuesday (December 17), CNN reports. Mangione, an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family, was arrested in Altoona after a McDonald's employee spotted him eating at the restaurant and believed he resembled the then-wanted gunman linked to the Manhattan shooting.
The suspect was found carrying a ghost gun, masks and a manifesto linked to the incident at the time of his arrest, authorities confirmed.