Luigi Mangione back pain and spinal surgery after surfing accident led to him blaming UnitedHealthcare, which he singles out in his Manifesto, as friends who knew him discuss alleged CEO shooter ‘going absolutely crazy’.
Luigi Mangione, the 26 year old Ivy League graduate since charged with the first degree murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, 50, is reported to have gone ‘absolutely crazy’ after painful back surgery following a surfing accident.
Mangione according to friends said he had dropped off the radar after a surfing accident led to him needing ‘painful back surgery’, alluded to in an image in which the alleged shooter shared on his X account of a stapled spine with 4 fused rods.
Emergency physician Dr. Kashif Pirzada wrote on X that the picture ‘Looks like a lumbar spinal fusion surgery’.
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Spoke with a source that had a lot of friends that went to high school with Luigi Mangione.
What keeps coming up is a back surgery that “changed everything” for him and he went “absolutely crazy.”
Checks out with his GoodReads history and the X-Ray in his header. pic.twitter.com/dsrXMQcqB2
— Jack Mac (@JackMacCFB) December 9, 2024
‘Could severe back pain drive someone to commit a terrible crime?
Wrote the physician in entirety: ‘Could severe back pain drive someone to commit a terrible crime? Some thoughts from someone who sees chronic back pain patients regularly. This is the lumbar spinal xray posted on Luigi Mangione’s Twitter profile.
‘It shows he had a spinal fusion surgery (the screws at the bottom), along with some degenerative changes that you’d normally see in a later middle-aged person, but could also be present in a younger person who’s had a serious injury.’
Commentators on social media, including those that alleged knowing him commented on the up and coming tech whiz from Maryland becoming deeply affected by having to have spinal surgery to resolve back pains which led to him ‘going absolutely crazy.’
‘Spoke with a source that had a lot of friends that went to high school with Luigi Mangione,’ the commentator, id as Jack Mac wrote. ‘What keeps coming up is a back surgery that “changed everything” for him and he went “absolutely crazy”.’
‘Back injury happened when he was surfing in Hawaii. Surgery didn’t go great. Moved to Japan. His contact with family stopped about a year ago. Recently the family reached out to his friends from high school asking if they had info on him.’
Adding further speculation that the surgery led to Mangione ‘going off-grid’ are reports that Mangione singled out UnitedHealthcare in the manifesto he was carrying.
To what degree UnitedHealthcare was accountable or attributable for the level or lack of care to Mangione in the treatment of the back pain along with financial burden remained unknown.
Just realized the importance that Luigi Mangione was 26. His alleged manifesto speaks at length of his own mother’s battle with crippling pain. Then he starts going down the same path of pain himself. Then he faces being 26 – the final year he can be on his parents’ insurance.
— 🌭Crew96 Hotdog 🏆🏆🏆 (@Crew962) December 10, 2024
Luigi Mangione manifesto references his mother’s pain along with his own
In a 262-word handwritten document found on his person, 5 days after his arrest (had he been expecting his imminent arrest, to be carrying the manifesto along with alleged ghost gun used to murder the healthcare boss and 4 fake ID’s on him?) Mangione specifically took issue with the health insurance provider.
‘While UnitedHealthcare’s market capitalization has grown, American life expectancy has not,’ Mangione reportedly wrote in his manifesto.
He condemned companies that ‘continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.’
Mangione reportedly wrote that he acted alone and was self-funded, adding: ‘To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone.
‘These parasites had it coming. I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.’
A former roommate of Mangione’s told CNN: ‘I remember he said he had a back issue, and he was hoping to get stronger in Hawaii.
The experience was ‘really traumatic and difficult’ for him, the roommate said while adding that Mangione sent him X-ray images of his spine. ‘It looked heinous, with just giant screws going into his spine,’ R.J Martin said.
Mangione suddenly went ‘radio silent’ while recovering. He sought alternative forms of pain management, including psychedelics and magic mushrooms.
On X, Mangione had created a titled ‘psych’ full of tweets about psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms and ln January 25 this year he added to his Goodreads a book called ‘Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide’, and ‘Mushrooms of Hawai’i: An Identification Guide’.
Of further intrigue, is the Manifesto that Ted Kaczynski aka the Unabomber wrote, ‘Industrial Society and Its Future.’ in which he gave 4 star reviews and the claim that ‘violence is sometimes necessary and the only way to affect change.’
Other books listed on the Goodreads site that Mangione reviewed included two books on back pain management.
One is titled ‘Back in Control: A Spinal Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain’. Another is ‘Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery’.
Investigators have yet to say what led to 26 year old allegedly gunning down Brian Thompson, 50, last week outside of a midtown, Manhattan hotel as he prepared to lead an investors conference later that morning to discuss record multi billion dollar profits of $450 billion that America’s largest private health insurer expected to bring in for 2025.
