This image taken from video released by Pennsylvania State Police shows Luigi Mangione, a suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pa., on Dec. 9, 2024. (Pennsylvania State Police via AP)2025-12-09T23:29:49Z NEW YORK (AP) Pluck eyebrows. Buy less conspicuous shoes. Take a bus or a train west toward Cincinnati and St. Louis. Move around late at night. Stay away from surveillance cameras.A to-do list and travel plans found during Luigi Mangiones arrest and revealed in court this week shed new light on the steps he may have taken or planned to take to avoid capture after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompsons killing last year.Keep momentum, FBI slower overnight, said one note. Change hat, shoes, pluck eyebrows, said another.The notes, including a hand-drawn map and tactics for surviving on the lam, were shown on Monday at a pretrial hearing as Mangiones bid to prevent prosecutors from using evidence seized during his Dec. 9, 2024, arrest at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania.Excerpts of body-worn camera footage of the arrest, previously unseen by the press or the public, were released on Tuesday. Police said they discovered the notes in Mangiones backpack, along with a 9 mm handgun that prosecutors said matches the one used to kill Thompson five days earlier; a loaded gun magazine and silencer; and a notebook in similar handwriting which he purportedly described his intent to wack a health insurance executive. Mangiones lawyers havent disputed the authenticity of the notes or the provenance of the gun, pocket knife, fake ID, drivers license, passport, credit cards, AirPods, protein bar, travel toothpaste, flash drives and other items seized from him and his backpack. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on But they argue that anything found in the bag should be barred because police didnt have a search warrant and lacked the grounds to justify a warrantless search. Prosecutors contend the search was legal officers said they were checking for a bomb and that police eventually obtained a warrant. The notes, along with other evidence highlighted at the pretrial hearing, underscore that Mangiones stop in Altoona, a city of about 44,000 people about 230 miles (370 kilometers) west of Manhattan, was only meant to be temporary. One note said to check for red eyes from Pittsburgh to Columbus, Ohio or part way to Cincinnati (get off early, it reads). The map drawn below shows lines linking those cities, as well as other possible destinations, including Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis.Thompson, 50, was killed as he walked to a Manhattan hotel for his companys investor conference on Dec. 4, 2024. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting him from behind and then fleeing the area. Over the next hours and days, police released photos of a suspect first showing him in a mask and hooded coat and then his face and thick eyebrows.Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges. The pretrial hearing, which resumes for a sixth day on Thursday, applies only to the state case. His lawyers are making a similar push to exclude the evidence from his federal case, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.Among the notes revealed this week was one with a heading 12/5 and a starred entry that said: buy black shoes (white stripes too distinctive). Another, also written in to-do list style, suggested spending more than three hours away from surveillance cameras and using different modes of transportation to Break CAM continuity and avoid tracking. Below that, it said: check reports for current situation, a possible reference to news reports about the search for Thompsons killer.According to prosecutors, Mangione fled to Newark, New Jersey, immediately after the shooting and took a train to Philadelphia. Among the evidence shown at the pretrial hearing was a Philadelphia transit pass purchased at 1:06 p.m. a little more than six hours after the shooting and a ticket for a Greyhound bus, booked under the name Sam Dawson, leaving Philadelphia at 6:30 p.m. and arriving in Pittsburgh at 11:55 p.m.A note with the heading 12/8 lists a number of tasks, including an apparent trip to Best Buy to purchase a digital camera and accessories, hot meal + water bottles, and trash bag(s). Under 12/9, the day of Mangiones arrest, the note lists tasks including Sheetz, an Altoona-based convenience store chain, masks and AAA bats. Under Future TO DO, it listed intel checkin and survival kit. Mangione had a Sheetz hoagie in his backpack when he was arrested, along with a loaf of Italian bread from a local deli, according to police officers testifying Monday and Tuesday. It had been raining, and the bag and items inside it were wet, the officers said. They were heard on body-worn camera footage played in court theorizing that Mangione had gotten soaked walking from the citys bus station.Police responded to the McDonalds after a manager called 911 to relay concerns from customers who thought that Mangione, eating breakfast in a back corner, resembled the man wanted for killing Thompson. On the call, played in court, the manager could be heard saying that because Mangione was wearing a medical mask, she could only see his eyebrows and that she searched online for a photo of the suspect for comparison. Altoona Police Officer Stephen Fox testified on Tuesday that Mangione, the Ivy League-educated scion of a wealthy Maryland family, expressed concern for the 911 callers wellbeing. Fox said Mangione asked if police had planned on releasing her name, which they didnt. The officer recalled him saying: It would be bad for her and there would be a lot of people that would be upset.At another point, Fox said, a shackled Mangione stumbled while trying to keep up with the brisk-moving officer. Fox said he apologized and said, I forgot you were shackled.He said Mangione responded: Its OK, Im going to have to get used to it. MICHAEL R. SISAK Sisak is an Associated Press reporter covering law enforcement, courts and prisons. He is based in New York. twitter mailto