Federal prosecutors have charged Shane Daley, a 40-year-old resident of Galway, New York, with one count of cyberstalking for allegedly leaving a series of threatening, profanity-laden voicemails for the widow of UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Officer Brian Thompson. According to a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday in the Northern District of New York, Daley placed four calls between 8 p.m. on 4 December and 7 December 2024—beginning just hours after Thompson was fatally shot on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk—celebrating the killing and warning that the executive’s family “deserved the same fate.” Investigators linked Daley to the calls through phone records and a search of his mobile device executed on 30 July, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. Acting U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III said Daley “gleefully welcomed this tragedy and did all he could to increase the Thompson family’s pain and suffering,” while FBI Assistant Director Christopher G. Raia described the messages as “threatening and terrifying to a family already grieving.” Daley is expected to appear before a magistrate judge in Albany on Wednesday afternoon. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, though federal guidelines typically yield lower terms. Brian Thompson, 50, was shot outside a hotel near an investors’ conference on 4 December 2024. Luigi Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to murder and related charges in federal and state courts and remains in custody awaiting trial.