Following his designation as a strong person of interest in the death of a healthcare firm CEO last week, Luigi Nicholas Mangione, 26, a Maryland native with ties to Pennsylvania, has been charged with murder.
After a McDonald’s employee identified him from security footage from the December 4 shooting in New York, he was arrested in Altoona on Monday.On Wednesday, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a Hilton hotel.
Thompson, a 50-year-old Maple Grove, Minnesota, father of two, lived there. Before a UnitedHealthcare investor meeting near Central Park began, he was assassinated.On Monday, his funeral was scheduled.
Based on media reporting, the following is what we know about Mangione:
Family & education
Mangione was born in Towson, Maryland, and was raised in an affluent family that owned a radio station, country clubs, and other businesses, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was the valedictorian of the Gillman School, a prominent Baltimore boys’ academy, when he graduated in 2016. According to his high school yearbook, he was involved in model UN, robotics club, and wrestling.
Mangione was described as a bright, gregarious, and athletic student by a high school classmate.
Mangione graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Philadelphia’s University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution. In addition to helping to launch a game creation group, he majored in computer science.
It appears from his social media posts that he was a member of the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. According to the Associated Press, they also feature him participating in a 2019 program at Stanford University and in pictures with family and friends in the Jersey Shore, Hawaii, San Diego, Puerto Rico, and other locations.
On Monday, December 9, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Altoona Police Officer Tyler Frye, center, talks at a press conference about the arrest of suspect Luigi Mangione in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Photo courtesy of Ted Shaffrey)AP
Home & work
Mangione has connections to San Francisco and a last known address in Honolulu, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
In a message shared on social media late Monday, Mangione’s cousin, Maryland congressman Nino Mangione, said, “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest.” We ask everyone to pray for everyone involved, and we extend our prayers to Brian Thompson’s family.
According to the New York Times, Mangione had regular communication with his family and friends until he abruptly and mysteriously ceased doing so around six months ago. Friends claimed that he had been dealing with a terrible back problem before he disappeared.
According to CBS, he had been residing at Surfbreak, a co-living/working facility in Honolulu. According to a statement released by Surfbreak to CBS News, we are aware that Luigi Mangione resided at the Surfbreak co-living facility in Honolulu in 2022. His purported behavior is not representative of the person we knew, Surfbreak’s core principles, or our neighborhood. Despite the disagreements of reasonable people, violence is never the solution.
According to a woman who knew him there, he left the area in April 2022 because of a chronic back injury that was made worse by the island’s physical activities.
Mangione was a data engineer at the car-buying website TrueCar, according to his LinkedIn profile, but a representative claimed he hasn’t been employed there since 2023.
Luigi Mangione, a suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is shown in this booking photo made public by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections on Monday, December 9, 2024. (AP via the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections)AP
Arrest
Luigi Mangione was sitting in the rear of an Altoona McDonald’s restaurant on Monday, wearing a blue medical mask and staring at a silver laptop on the table when police officers approached him. According to officials, he first provided them with a false identity and identification.
On the floor close to him was a backpack. According to the authorities, they discovered a black 3D-printed pistol and a 3D-printed silencer when they searched it. According to the authorities, the weapon had a metal threaded barrel, a plastic handle, and a metal slide.
Although Mangione denied the amount, Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks stated in court that Mangione was carrying a passport and $10,000 in cash, of which $2,000 was in foreign currency.
Authorities think that before to his arrest and during the shooting, he had traveled throughout Pennsylvania.
During a news conference on Monday, December 9, 2024, in New York, New York Police Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny is seen in this videotaped photo responding to inquiries regarding the CEO homicide case. (The Mayor’s Office of New York City via AP)AP
Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, called the McDonald’s tipster a hero.
“We don’t kill people in America to settle policy disputes or voice our opinions,” he remarked. I am aware that many individuals are quite irritated with our healthcare system. I’ve spent my career trying to remedy that. However, I don’t tolerate—and neither should anyone else—one man killing someone with an illegal ghost gun because he believes his viewpoint is the most important. Idealogues who practice vigilante justice put all of us in a civil society at risk.
Manifesto
A law enforcement official who was not allowed to publicly discuss the case told The Associated Press that a paragraph in a three-page handwritten document discovered in Mangione’s possession stated that he acted alone.
I’ll keep this brief for the Feds because I appreciate what you do for our nation. The official stated in the document, “To spare you a long investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone.”
The New York Police Department released this undated image of a suspect in the Dec. 4, 2024, shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a cab.AP
Additionally, there was a sentence that read, “I sincerely apologize for any conflict or trauma, but it was necessary.” These parasites just had it coming, to be honest.
According to CBS, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters, “I don’t think there are any specific threats to other people mentioned in that document, but it does seem that he has some ill will toward corporate America.”
According to the Altoona Mirror, Mangione was transferred to SCI Huntingdon after being ordered to be kept without bail.
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