Luigi Mangione, a member of a prominent family in the Baltimore area who’s accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, was indicted on Tuesday on 11 counts including first-degree murder and second-degree murder as a crime of terrorism.

”This was a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said at a news conference.

Mangione, he said, fatally shot Thompson on Dec. 4 outside the New York Hilton Midtown to evoke terror. The law defines these acts as ones that are meant to intimidate or coerce a civilian population and sway a policy of government, Bragg said.

If he’s convicted, Mangione faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

”The plain language of the statute is clear,” Bragg said. “We intend to go forward and prove it.”

The indictment comes as Mangione, 26, is set later this week to go to court.

Mangione is scheduled to appear at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, for a preliminary hearing on charges of forgery, carrying a firearm without a license, possessing instruments of a crime and related offenses. He’s then due at 9 a.m. to have his second extradition hearing.

His attorneys, Tom Dickey and Karen Friedman Agnifilo, could not be reached for comment.

Police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, last week arrested Mangione at a McDonald’s on East Plank Road, between Emerson and Lowell avenues, after an employee called 911.

Mangione, police allege, handed them a fake New Jersey driver’s license with the name Mark Rosario.

Officers asked Mangione whether he’d recently been in New York and claim he “became quiet and started to shake.” He eventually came clean and gave them his real name and date of birth, police assert.

Law enforcement arrested him, searched his backpack and reported that they found a 3D-printed gun and silencer along with a magazine containing six 9 mm cartridges and one loose round.

As sheriff’s deputies escorted Mangione into the courthouse for his first extradition hearing, he shouted, “That’s completely out of touch, and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and to lived experience!”

Mangione then indicated that he wished to contest extradition.

Since his arrest, Mangione has in some circles become a folk hero.

An anonymous online fundraiser for his legal fees has raked in more than $140,000. He has served as the inspiration for countless internet memes. And some people have even sent him money in prison.

New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch condemned people who are praising the killing, stating that “we have seen a shocking and appalling celebration of cold-blooded murder.”

“This was a senseless act of violence. It was a cold and calculated crime that stole a life and put New Yorkers at risk,” Tisch said. “We don’t celebrate murders, and we don’t lionize the killing of anyone.”

Tisch called any efforts to rationalize the killing “vile, reckless and offensive to our deeply held principles of justice.”

Mangione is being held at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, a prison that’s more than 2 1/2 hours east of Pittsburgh, without bail.