Luigi Mangione will be hauled back to NYC Thursday to face extraordinarily rare first-degree murder charge in UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompsons shooting

Luigi Mangione is set to be hauled back to Manhattan on Thursday to face an “exceedingly rare” first-degree murder charge in the brazen shooting of UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompson, sources said.Mangione, 26, is expected to waive extradition during a hearing at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania on Thursday morning after previously fighting orders seeking to bring him to the Big Apple to face charges.He will appear sometime this week — possibly as soon as Thursday — before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro on an 11-count indictment unveiled Tuesday, a courthouse source confirmed to The Post.Mangione — a University of Pennsylvania graduate from a prominent Maryland family — faces the possibility of life without parole if convicted of murder as an act of terrorism.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said that Mangione was indicted on the upgraded charges because the Dec.

4 crime — in which Thompson was gunned down outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown — was “intended to provoke terror.”“This was a frightening, well-planned targeted murder that was intended to cause shock, attention and intimidation,” Bragg said at a news conference.NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that officials have seen a “shocking and appalling celebration of cold-blooded murder” that has been praised on social media.“Let me say this plainly, there is no heroism in what Mangione did,” Tisch said at the joint press conference.But murder in the first degree — which is typically charged in cases involving victims who are law enforcement members or possible witnesses to crimes — is being considered by some legal experts as a “reach.”“It’s extraordinarily rare, and this is actually the first time in Manhattan I’ve seen one with a terrorism enhancement,” veteran defense attorney Ron Kuby told The Post Wednesday.The attorney said that he felt Bragg is “wildly overcharging” Mangione in an attempt to make a “g...