Gov. Wes Moore on Wednesday spoke about his personal experience witnessing the “brokenness” of the health care system but condemned the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saying “the way we solve things is not killing people in cold blood.”

Luigi Mangione, 26, a member of a well-known Baltimore-area family, was arrested and charged this week with second-degree murder and related offenses in the fatal shooting, which happened on Dec. 4 outside the New York Hilton Midtown. He’s fighting his extradition from Pennsylvania to New York.

Moore spoke at the B&O Warehouse at Oriole Park at Camden Yards as plans were unveiled to launch an annual Preakness Stakes festival, beginning next year. At the event, he was asked about his thoughts on a Maryland native being arrested in the killing.

“Some of the earliest memories I have of my life was watching the health care system fail,” Moore said. “I was 3 years old when my dad died in front of me because he didn’t get the health care he needed.”

In 1982, Moore’s father, Wes, suddenly died of an infection. He was 34.

When speaking about health care in the past, Moore has often shared that his father did not receive proper treatment before this death.

Moore said the “brokenness of the health care system is something that I have lived with, and something that still very much sits with me to this day.”

“I also know that the way we solve things is not killing people in cold blood,” Moore said. “The way we solve things is not killing people because we do not like the industry they are in, or the company that they represent.”

He said was “glad that the wheels of justice are now moving.”

“We need to have justice for what happened to Brian Thompson,” Moore said. “And I would just ask people to remember that because of the actions of this person, there are two teenagers right now in Minnesota who are growing up like I did: Fatherless.”