The suspect arrested in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is an anti-capitalist Ivy League graduate who liked the words of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski online and wrote in a manifesto, “These parasites… “He simply expected it to come,” a law enforcement official said. Monday’s post.
Sources say Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old tech genius from Towson, Maryland, hated the medical community because of the way it treated his sick relatives.
The suspect may also have held a grudge because of his own interactions with the industry, sources said, citing an X-ray showing four pins on his spine found on his X account. I paid attention.
Mangione, who comes from a wealthy and famous Maryland family and has a cousin who is a state legislator, had five books about chronic back pain on his reading list on his GoodReads account.
It includes titles such as “Crooked: Outwit the back pain industry and get on the path to recovery” and “Why we get sick: The hidden epidemic at the root of most chronic diseases and how to fight it.” was included.
These were added to his virtual bookshelf between May 2022 and February 2023.
High school friends were shocked to learn that the former prep school valedictorian and high-achieving Penn graduate may have been struggling, and they also discovered that his bust had been linked to a murder case. He said he was even more shocked to learn that
A former classmate told Fox News Digital that he “always did the right thing.”
Mangione said: “He was always smiling. I never got the feeling that he was socially awkward. That’s why I was really surprised.
“I graduated in 2015 and he graduated in 2016. It’s crazy how people change in 10 years, nine years,” the source said.
A former Penn classmate told the Post that Mangione belonged to the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
“He was just a regular floppy guy. He played beer pong. Some girls thought he was hot,” the source said.
In May 2019, Mangione was tagged in an online Facebook chat called “Penn Crashes” and exclaimed, “Damn. That’s awesome.” are you single? You give us engineers hope! ”
Mangione replied, “Despite all my efforts…yes, I’m still single.”
One surveillance photo of the murder suspect released by the New York City Police Department days before Thompson’s murder shows him smiling amiably with a clerk at the hostel where he was hiding out in Manhattan. Ta.
“He’s not a monster,” a friend wrote on Mangione’s Instagram.
“Words cannot express how worried I am for you right now,” the friend reportedly told Mangione. “They’re flipping this whole story on its head.”
Sources told Fox that Mangione appeared to disappear from his friends’ lives this fall, worrying them.
Mangione, who has not been charged with Thompson’s murder, was taken into custody Monday morning while eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
His bust ends an intense investigation sparked by Thompson’s cold-blooded execution outside a Manhattan hotel last week.
Sources said Mangione was in possession of a 9mm ghost gun, a silencer, a U.S. passport and four fake IDs with names and manifests used during the killer’s mission in New York City. It is said that he was doing so.
The manifesto consisted of two and a half handwritten pages that Mangione posted on his Goodreads account, echoing a quote from eccentric dissident Ted Kaczynski. Ted Kaczynski was the infamous “Unabomber” who terrorized the nation for nearly two decades by mailing deadly bombs before his death. According to officials, he was arrested in 1996.
“Imagine a society that exposes people to situations that make them deeply unhappy and then gives them drugs to take away that unhappiness,” Kaczynski once wrote in a quote Mangione liked.
“Science Fiction It’s already happening to some extent in our society. Instead of removing the symptoms that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressants.
In fact, antidepressants are a means of altering an individual’s internal state so that he or she can tolerate social situations that would otherwise seem intolerable. ”
Officials said the manifest says the suspect acted alone.
Mangione also added in his review of the Unabomber manifesto:
What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Brian Thompson, CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed in a “brazen, targeted attack” outside a luxury midtown hotel on Wednesday, police said. Mr. Thompson was appointed CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives at the company targeted by the Justice Department. Thompson’s wife, Paulette, said she had received threats before her husband was killed. Thompson shooting led to heartbreaking online outpouring of support and even spurred a tasteless lookalike contest in New York City A dignitary was apprehended by police inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The suspect was identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson. Md. He was a former Ivy League student who hated the medical community.
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“While these actions tend to be characterized as the actions of insane Luddites, they are more accurately seen as the actions of extreme political revolutionaries.
“If you look at things from his perspective, it’s not terrorism, it’s war and revolution,” Mangione mused.
Mangione’s manifesto said the suspect acted alone, officials said.
It is not clear who the suspect’s relatives may have been.
He lost his grandmother in 2013 and his grandfather in 2017, according to his online obituary.
According to his LinkedIn page, he previously worked at an assisted living facility for the elderly for several months in 2014, when he was still in high school. According to local media, his family runs a chain of care facilities called Lorient Health Services.
He is also a cousin of Republican Baltimore County Representative Nino Mangione, according to WBAL-TV.
In addition to serious issues with the medical industry, Mangione also supported anti-capitalist and climate change causes, law enforcement officials said, citing online activity collected by authorities.
He was the 2016 high school valedictorian at Gilman School in Baltimore, where he played soccer, according to the online site. High school tuition for boys is about $40,000 a year.
“We recently learned that the person arrested in connection with the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO is a Gilman alumnus, Luigi Mangione, Class of 2016,” said Henry Smith, the school’s leader, in a statement to the community. This was stated in a letter obtained by local authorities. TV 11.
“We have no information other than what is being reported in the news. This is very tragic news on top of an already terrible situation. Our hearts go out to everyone affected.”
Upon graduation, Mangione said he plans to pursue a degree in artificial intelligence with an emphasis in computer science and cognitive science from the University of Pennsylvania, according to an interview with the Baltimore Fishbowl.
According to his LinkedIn profile, the tech rising star graduated with honors from a private Ivy League institution in Philadelphia in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, computer and information science.
According to his profile, he also holds a master’s degree in engineering, computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania.
His LinkedIn suggests he is a data engineer for a California-based automotive company, but lists his current home as Honolulu, Hawaii.
He was once charged with trespassing on a beach in Hawaii, but has no other apparent criminal history, the New York Times reported.
The state of the country’s government and economy seems to have been on his mind for years.
He reposted a 2019 Wall Street Journal article on Facebook titled “Obstacles to Deficit Reduction: A Nation of Rights.”
His Facebook account has no recent posts, but he describes himself as a co-founder of AppRoar Studios, which describes itself as “founded to provide the simplest, most engaging gaming experience.” “A new app development startup.”
While attending the University of Pennsylvania, Mangione was featured in a student publication praising him for starting a student-run video game development club. The club is now known as the University of Pennsylvania Gaming Research and Development Environment.
Additional reporting by Rikki Schlott and Andy Tillett
