The suspect was involved in the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4, 2024, in midtown Manhattan.
Source: New York City Police Department
The man considered a “person of interest” in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was a private school valedictorian and technology whiz who used social media to criticize society.
Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson, Maryland, manages several social media accounts, including the Goodreads profile he used to share an anti-technology manifesto written by Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. 4 out of 5 reviews.
While Mr. Kaczynski was a “violent person” and “justifiably imprisoned,” his actions “are more accurately seen as an extreme political revolutionary,” Mangione wrote.
Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 more with letter bombs during his criminal career.
Mangione’s review also shares unattributed quotes justifying violence against corporations and their leaders. “When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary for survival.”
When Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning, authorities said he had his manifesto, a three-page handwritten document, in his possession.
Screenshot of private circuit of key person in United Healthcare CEO murder.
Source: New York City Police Department
He was also found in possession of a gun and silencer similar to the one used to fatally shoot 50-year-old Thompson at close range on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk last Wednesday.
Mr. Mangione earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 2020 with a Master of Science degree in Computer and Information Science.
He also served as valedictorian of his high school class at Gilman School, an all-boys private school in Baltimore, Maryland. Tuition fee Up to $37,000 for grades 9 and above.
2016 post Mr. Gilman quoted from Mr. Mangione’s commencement speech, in which Mr. Mangione praised the class for having “incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things.”
Gilman Principal Henry Smith confirmed Monday that Mangione is an alumnus.
“This is very tragic news on top of an already terrible situation. My heart goes out to everyone affected,” Smith said in a letter to the school, as reported by NBC News. ” he wrote.
The LinkedIn page also says Mangione lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and currently works as a data engineer at TrueCar, a car purchasing technology startup.
A TrueCar spokesperson told CNBC on Monday that Mangione has not worked with the company since 2023.
The rest of Mangione’s profile includes teaching artificial intelligence to high school students through a program at Stanford University, founding the Video Game Development Club at the University of Pennsylvania, and developing the game Civilization VI among his work history. Examples include interning with the team.
A New York City Police Department informational poster is displayed outside the hostel where the suspect in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was reportedly staying in New York City’s Upper West Side on December 5, 2024.
Shannon Stapleton Reuter
Mangione has also posted regularly on X (formerly Twitter) over the years, but hasn’t posted anything since June.
Mangione has shared a variety of views on technology, politics, and culture in his posts on X. At times, its views seemed consistent with earlier forms of populist conservatism.
“Nature abhors a vacuum,” he wrote in an April post, above a link to an article titled “The decline of Christianity has unleashed a terrifying new god.”
In another post the same day, he argued that “the modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.”
In a May 15 post, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson wrote that he was “accurately aware that modern architecture kills the spirit.”
Mangione is a descendant of an influential Baltimore family that owned country clubs and founded the nursing home company Lorien Health Services. The Baltimore Banner reported.
