‘Morning Joe’ Demands to Know Why Luigi Mangione’s Family Didn’t Turn Him in

Two police officials probing the recent killing of UnitedHealthcare Group CEO Brian Thompson declined to say whether family and friends of chief suspect Luigi Mangione got in touch once his picture was released.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski asked NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell and Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry whether anyone who knew Mangione had contacted law enforcement prior to his arrest.

“Did you guys hear from his family and friends?” she said. “I mean, these pictures are pretty clear if you know this person, wouldn’t you recognize him?”

Daughtry answered, “The picture you showed before, of him standing outside the hostel … if you saw me, my mother saw me, my dad saw me, they’d be like ‘that’s Kaz Daughtry.”

“Like I said before, we have over—I think it’s more than 400 tips that came in,” he went on. “We are still vetting each one of those tips, but thank god for the customer that was in the McDonald’s,” Daughtry added, referring to the diner who spotted Mangione in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday, leading to his arrest.

“Yeah I get that, but where were the parents?” Joe Scarborough quickly interrupted. “Where was the family, where were the fraternity brothers? Where were all the other people? They saw him!”

Mangione’s social media posts indicate that he was part of the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi while studying at the University of Pennsylvania, according to multiple reports.

“I think, again, [with the] post-arrest investigation here, all these things will be asked and answered in time,” Chell answered.

“Like we said, when the picture went out, the thought process from everyone was like, if someone knows this person–hey, that’s John–all that will come out,” he added. “There’s still a lot of work to do here.”