The arrest of Luigi Nicholas Mangione, the primary person of interest in the heinous Manhattan murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, was unexpected, according to a former high school classmate.
Mangione and Freddie Leatherbury have not talked since they graduated from Maryland’s Gilman School in 2016. He claimed that, even by the standards of the private school, Mangione was a bright, gregarious, athletic student from a wealthy family.
In all honesty, Leatherbury said that he had it all.
When a friend informed him about their former classmate’s imprisonment, Leatherbury claimed he was taken aback.
According to what I knew about him in high school, he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would do this, Leatherbury stated.
According to a spokesperson who talked to The Associated Press on Monday, Mangione, a high school valedictorian from a prep school in Maryland, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science in 2020.
According to a 2018 article in Penn Today, a campus newspaper, he had learnt to code in high school and had assisted in founding a club at Penn for those interested in gaming and game design.
Additionally, it appears from his posts that he was a member of the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. Along with pictures of him with family and friends in Hawaii, San Diego, Puerto Rico, the New Jersey shore, and other places, they also include him participating in a 2019 program at Stanford University.
Gilman headmaster Henry P.A. Smyth recently found out that Mangione had been detained, he wrote in a note to parents and alumni.
Other than what is being published in the news, we don’t have any information,” Smyth stated. On top of an already terrible circumstance, this is extremely upsetting news. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those impacted.
A wanted unidentified suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is depicted on a poster released by the FBI. (FBI thru AP)AP
According to a 2008 obituary, Nick Mangione Sr. has 37 grandchildren, including Luigi Mangione.
According to a 1995 Baltimore Sun story, Mangione Sr. was raised in poverty in Little Italy in Baltimore and became a rich real estate developer and philanthropist after serving in the Navy during World War II. According to a statement released by Loyola University in honor of his late wife, Mary Cuba Mangione, who passed away in 2023, he and his wife focused their charitable efforts on the Mangione Family Foundation. They made contributions to the arts, higher education, and Catholic organizations, among other causes.
Mangione Sr. was well-known for his 1978 purchase of Turf Valley Resort, a vast opulent retreat and convention center outside of Baltimore. According to a 2003 Washington Post article, Nick Mangione Sr., a father of ten children, trained his five sons, including Luigi Mangione’s father, Louis Mangione, to assist in running the family business.
In 1986, the Mangione family also acquired Hayfields Country Club, which is located north of Baltimore. An entry to the property, which is connected to Luigi Mangione’s parents according to public records, was shut off by Baltimore County police officers on Monday afternoon. Outside the entryway, a crowd of photographers and reporters gathered.
According to a representative for the delegate’s office on Monday, Republican state legislator Nino Mangione of Maryland is one of Luigi Mangione’s relatives.
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