Former Gilman valedictorian Luigi Mangione, person of interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying, has Baltimore roots

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-09 21:13:20 | Updated at 2024-12-25 05:25:59 2 weeks ago

Former Gilman valedictorian Luigi Mangione, person of interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying, has Baltimore roots
baltimorefishbowl.com ^ | December 09, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 12/09/2024 12:19:59 PM PST by Red Badger

New York police have announced a person of interest in last week’s brazen shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangione, 26, is a Gilman School graduate who was born and raised in Maryland and has had a Towson address.

According to the Associated Press, police apprehended Mangione after a tip that he had been spotted at a McDonald’s near Altoona, Pennsylvania, west of New York City. Police found a gun, a silencer and fake IDs, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press.

At a news conference, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said police found a three-page document with writings suggesting that Mangione had ill will toward corporate America. The handwritten document “speaks to both his motivation and mindset,” Tisch said.

Mangione was the valedictorian of his Gilman School graduating class in 2016, and was featured in a Baltimore Fishbowl story that year about graduation speeches.

Mangione felt that the environment at Gilman fostered his ability to excel academically. “The teachers at Gilman influenced me especially,” he wrote in an email, adding that they encouraged less of a desire to achieve high grades in his classes and instead encouraged “more of an excitement to explore academic topics outside of the classroom.”

Henry P. A. Smyth, Head of School at Gilman, acknowledged the news in an email message to the school’s community Monday.

“We recently became aware that the person arrested in connection with the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO is a Gilman alumnus, Luigi Mangione, Class of 2016,” Smyth wrote. “We do not have any information other than what is being reported in the news.”

“This is deeply distressing news on top of an already awful situation. Our hearts go out to everyone affected.”

Smyth added, “Here on campus, our focus will remain on caring for and educating the boys. Thank you for your understanding.”

NBC News and other sources are confirming that Mangione is a member of a prominent family of landowners and developers who own and operate Turf Valley in Ellicott City and Hayfields Country Club in Baltimore County. Baltimore Fishbowl’s calls for comment from Turf Valley and Hayfields were not immediately returned.

WBAL-TV reported that Mangione is a cousin of Baltimore County Delegate Nino Mangione, R-District 42A. The delegate’s office did not immediately respond to Baltimore Fishbowl’s call for comment.

Thompson, 50, was killed Wednesday in what police said was a “brazen, targeted” attack as he walked alone to the Hilton from a nearby hotel, where UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group, was holding its annual investor conference, police said.

This article has been updated.

TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: luigimangione; mangione

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1 posted on 12/09/2024 12:19:59 PM PST by Red Badger

To: Red Badger

All the technology, all the manpower and yet the fbi is foiled by a minimum wage fast food restaurant employee.

It’s almost as if they WANTED him to get away......but that couldn’t be.......could it?

2 posted on 12/09/2024 12:25:16 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)

To: Red Badger

DidBrian Thompson die because he was going to testify against a Nancy Pelosi (whose father ran the Baltimore mafia)?

3 posted on 12/09/2024 12:29:18 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)

To: Red Badger

Jeez, I know who one of his cousins is. This shooter has clearly had his mind/thinking twisted by his “elite” education (actually “ill-education”).

4 posted on 12/09/2024 12:30:14 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)

To: reasonisfaith

This looks more like a left-tard kook that wanted to ‘make a difference’................

5 posted on 12/09/2024 12:30:23 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)

To: V_TWIN

All the technology, all the manpower and yet the fbi is foiled by a minimum wage fast food restaurant employee.

LOL, the New York City Press conference needed an orthopedic surgeon as they were breaking their arms patting themselves on the back for cracking this case and the great old fashioned leather shoe police work....and all they did was publish photos they were sent, sheesh.

6 posted on 12/09/2024 12:30:25 PM PST by 1Old Pro

To: 1Old Pro

So does the McDs worker get the reward? 🤷

7 posted on 12/09/2024 12:32:29 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)

To: House Atreides

This shooter has clearly had his mind/thinking twisted by his “elite” education (actually “ill-education”).

These schools teach and indoctrinate left wing garbage - there's millions of these Leftist student kooks out there

8 posted on 12/09/2024 12:32:43 PM PST by 1Old Pro

To: V_TWIN

So does the McDs worker get the reward?

One would hope.

9 posted on 12/09/2024 12:33:52 PM PST by 1Old Pro

To: Red Badger

Yes, and as we all know high profile assassinations always have a real story underneath.

Was there a link to Pelosi? I don’t know for certain.

10 posted on 12/09/2024 12:47:03 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)

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