Luigi Mangione, Towson, Maryland man id as UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect after recognized at Altoona, Pennsylvania McDonald’s. Ivy league grad and anti-capitalist was found with fake Id’s, gun similar used in shooting murder of Brian Thompson and manifesto critical of health insurance industry.
Pennsylvania authorities have arrested a 26 year old Altoona man believed to be the gunman responsible for the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, 50, outside of a midtown, Manhattan, Hilton Hotel last week.
Luigi Mangione of Towson, Maryland, according to initial press reports was identified as an Ivy League student, valedictorian at Gilman School in Baltimore with a Masters degree.
He had writings critical of the insurance industry.
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The 26 year old was brought into questioning after an elderly patron at an Altoona McDonald’s believed he resembled the wanted man and called authorities just on 9.15am, Monday morning. Upon being brought into custody, the ‘person of interest’ was discovered to be in possession of four fake ID’s and the type of distinct gun used in last week’s slaying along with a manifesto.
The manifesto found on the man detained in Altoona was handwritten and criticized health care companies for putting profits above care, an anonymous law enforcement official told the New York Times.
The manifesto railed against the US healthcare industry, including over its enormous profits and alleged shady motives, sources told the nytimes.
Mangione had a particularly personal reason to hate the medical community — its treatment of an ailing relative, sources said.
Online obituaries show he lost a grandmother in 2013 and grandfather in 2017.
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His LinkedIn page indicates that he once worked in an assisted-living facility for the elderly for a few months in 2014, while still in high school.
‘Members of the Altoona Police Department arrested Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old male, on firearms charges,’ NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told a press conference on Monday afternoon.
‘At this time, he is believed to be our person of interest in the brazen targeted murder of Brian Thompson.’
To date, Mangione has not been charged in connection with the shooting.
Mangione along with being critical of the healthcare industry subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes, according to law-enforcement sources, citing online activity gleaned by authorities.
On the Goodreads website, Mangione’s account shows quotes he particularly likes ranging from Socrates to Bruce Lee, anti-establishment Kaczynski, the infamous “Unabomber’’ who terrorized the country for nearly two decades by dispatching deadly bombs before he was nabbed in 1996.
‘Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’ Kaczynski wrote at one point in a quote liked by Mangione.
‘Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.’
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Magione reportedly graduated in 2016 as valedictorian from Gilman School, an all-boys high school in Baltimore, Maryland, NBCNY reported. High school tuition at the all-boys school is nearly $40,000 a year.
He said at the time of graduation that he planned to seek a degree in artificial intelligence, focused on the areas of computer science and cognitive science at the University of Pennsylvania, according to an interview with the Baltimore Fishbowl.
The tech hotshot graduated cum laude from the private Ivy League institution in Philadelphia with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Computer and Information Science in 2020, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He also completed a Master of Science in Engineering (MSE), Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, his profile states.
Magione’s LinkedIn suggests he is a data engineer at a car company based in California, although he lists his current home as Honolulu in Hawaii.
A regard of Mangione’s social media profile showed him reposting a Wall Street Journal article on Facebook in 2019 titled, ‘Obstacle to Deficit Cutting: A Nation on Entitlements.’
His Facebook account, which did not have any recent postings, says he is the co-founder of AppRoar Studios, which describes itself as “an app development start-up founded to provide the simplest and most engaging gaming experience.”
While at Penn, Mangione appeared in an article in a student publication that praised him for starting up a student-run video game development club. The club is now known as the University of Pennsylvania Game Research and Development Environment.
