Luigi Mangione identified as person of interest in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO

Police have arrested a person of interest in Wednesday’s fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Police arrested Luigi Mangione, 26, in Altoona, Pennsylvania Monday morning after a McDonald’s employee recognized him from photos circulating of the suspected killer and called local police.

Mangione was arrested on firearm charges.

“At this time he is believed to be our person of interest in the brazen, targeted murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare last Wednesday in Midtown Manhattan,” New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a press conference on Monday.
 
When confronted by police, Mangione acted suspiciously, Tisch said. He was found to be carrying multiple fraudulent IDs and a passport. The fraudulent New Jersey identification was the one used to check into a New York City hostel last week.

Police recovered a firearm and suppressor found on Mangione that was consistent with the weapon used to murder Thompson, Tisch said. 

The gun found on Mangione may have been a 3D-printed unserialized ghost gun, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said, according to CBS News.

Recovered clothing and a mask were consistent with those worn by the wanted individual, Tisch said. 

“Additionally, officers recovered a hand-written document that speaks to both his motivation and mindset,” Tisch said.

The manifesto consisted of two-and-a-half handwritten pages that mirrored the quotes that Mangione posted on his Goodreads account from the “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, according to the New York Post.

NYPD officers were on their way to Altoona to question Mangione, according to Tisch.

Mangione, reportedly from Towson, Maryland, is an anti-capitalist Ivy League graduate who apparently hated the medical community because of how it treated a sick relative, the Post report said.

Mangione was valedictorian of his 2016 high school graduating class at the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he played soccer. 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. Mangione graduated cum laude from the private Ivy League institution in Philadelphia with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer and Information Science in 2020, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He also completed a Master of Science in Engineering, Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, his profile stated.

If Mangione’s LinkedIn profile is correct, he is a data engineer at a car company and lists his home as Honolulu, Hawaii.

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