Luigi Mangione studied computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, one of America’s most prestigious universities.
The suspect being investigated in connection with the murder of American insurance company president Brian Thompson was an Ivy League student who considered the Unabomber an “extreme political revolutionary.”
Luigi Mangione, 26, was eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning when an employee noticed him and alerted authorities.
The six-day manhunt for the New York assassin culminated in Mangione being found with a three-page manifesto, a homemade ghost gun, and a silencer. He also had a passport and fake ID that the suspect used to check into an Upper West Side hostel.
He was wearing the same clothing as the suspect, and his manifesto reportedly contained “malice toward corporate America” and listed grievances against the medical industry.
Police Chief Jessica Tisch said Mangione is considered a “person of interest.”
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney said the suspect currently faces firearms charges in Pennsylvania and that authorities will seek to bring him to New York to face additional charges. Mangione has not yet been charged.
Mangione, a high-achieving math whiz from Maryland, has long wanted to make his mark on the world.
In one social media post, he said he often felt “disappointed” in math class. The reason for this is, “All the problems that can be easily solved were solved before I was born.”
He added that he now appreciates his “21st century education” and will focus on issues such as “evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks.”
After becoming valedictorian of his high school class in 2016 at the Gilman School in Baltimore, which costs about $40,000 a year, Mangione went on to study computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the most prestigious universities in the United States.
He then continued to work as a data engineer for TrueCar, living in California and then Honolulu, Hawaii, according to LinkedIn.
Mr. Mangione has not yet been charged.
According to his Goodreads account, Mangione was sympathetic to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, describing him as a “mathematical genius.”
In his review of “Industrial Society and its Future: The Unabomber Manifesto,” he wrote: However, it is simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society have turned out to be.
“He was a violent person who deservedly went to prison and seriously injured innocent people. These actions tend to be characterized as those of a deranged Luddite, but they are more accurately described as extreme. It is seen as an act of a political revolutionary.”
Mangione went on to share the following observation online, which he called “interesting.” “When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary for survival. You may not like the way he does it, but if you look at things from his perspective, it’s not terrorism, it’s war, it’s revolution.” is.”
Mr. Mangione was sympathetic to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
He also criticized fossil fuel companies, adding: “They have absolutely no qualms about burning down the earth for money, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive?”
“We are animals like any other animal on the planet, but when other animals would have recognized the threat and fought to the death to survive, we forgot the laws of the jungle and became rulers.” ‘Violence solved nothing’ is a phrase uttered by cowards and looters.
Mangione’s social media accounts are filled with comments about social conditions and mental health.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, he shared his analysis of Japan’s declining birthrate, selling sex toys he described as “custom pocket pants for porn stars” and “lonely office workers trying to convince young girls to… “They pay people to dress up like anime characters,” criticized maid cafes. Anime dance will be performed according to the characters. ”
Mangione also reposted a book titled “The Anxious Generation” and comments about the influence of “seasonal and circadian rhythms” on mental health.
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