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Person of Interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing Identified as Prep School Valedictorian
daily b ^ | December 09, 2024 | Emell Derra Adolphus
Posted on 12/09/2024 12:27:39 PM PST by Red Badger
The person of interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killing has been identified as a 26-year-old computer whiz who graduated as valedictorian from his Maryland prep school.
Luigi Mangione, of Towson, Md., was carrying a weapon similar to the one used in the fatal shooting of Thompson when he was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters.
“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,” Tisch said at a press conference Monday.
The break in the case came from a Pennsylvania McDonald’s employee, who noticed as Magione was “sitting there eating” that he resembled the suspect seen on the New York Police Department’s wanted posters, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.
He had identification with his name on it, as well as a fake I.D., when he was taken in for questioning, law enforcement sources told the New York Times.
Luigi Mangione was carrying identification with his name on it when he was taken into custody at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
He also had a “manifesto” on his person, law enforcement sources told the New York Times. The cache of documents criticized healthcare companies for putting profits above care.
“We don’t think there’s any specific threats to other people mentioned in that document, but it does seem that he has some ill will towards corporate America,” Kenny said.
Mangione, who is one of six kids, graduated as valedictorian from the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he played soccer, according to the New York Post. Upon graduating, he said he intended to study artificial intelligence at the University of Pennsylvania.
On his X account, he identifies himself as having a bachelor’s degree and a master’s of science in computer science from the Ivy League school.
Social media accounts believed to belong to Mangione paint him as an anti-capitalist who liked online quotes from “Unabomber’’ Ted Kaczynski that blasted the medical community.
Law enforcement sources told the New York Post that he subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes online, as well as raged against the state of healthcare in the U.S.
It’s unclear whether his frustrations with the industry stemmed from personal experience, though an X-ray image was shared on his X account of sacral spine fusion caused by a condition more commonly found in athletes than in the general population.
Mangione had a "manifesto" on his person when he was taken into custody, according to a report.
Police have been hunting since Wednesday for the man who executed 50-year-old Thompson as he was heading to an investors' meeting at the New York Hilton in Manhattan.
The executive was transported six blocks away to Mount Sinai West hospital and pronounced dead just as the conference was getting underway at 8 a.m.
Leading up to the shooting, the suspect seemed to be “lying in wait” for Thompson, with several witnesses spotting a man matching Magione’s description on the premises around 6 a.m.
Thompson’s wife Paulette told NBC News that her husband had received several recent threats.
“Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details,” she said. “I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him.”
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Maryland; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: banglist; mangione; maryland; newyork; thompson; unitedhealth
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1 posted on 12/09/2024 12:27:39 PM PST by Red Badger
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
3 posted on 12/09/2024 12:31:07 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
To: Red Badger
His ideology aligned with the Unabomber, Ted Kazinscki.
Definitely a left-wing ideologue.
4 posted on 12/09/2024 12:31:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
To: Red Badger
What name does MKUltra go by these days?
5 posted on 12/09/2024 12:32:08 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
To: reasonisfaith
FBI.......................
6 posted on 12/09/2024 12:33:03 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
A lone nut patsy or a real lone nut?
7 posted on 12/09/2024 12:33:47 PM PST by Yaelle
To: SeekAndFind
Either that or a trained assassin sent to stop Brian Thompson from testifying against Nancy Pelosi.
8 posted on 12/09/2024 12:34:00 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
To: Red Badger
Proving once again that “Intelligence” and “Sanity” may be very far apart in any individual.
9 posted on 12/09/2024 12:34:03 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
To: Red Badger
As the ranchers in West Texas would occasionally say about a young man:
“THAT boy had one too many years of college.”
10 posted on 12/09/2024 12:34:53 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
To: Yaelle
Real lone nut looks like...............
11 posted on 12/09/2024 12:35:03 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: SaxxonWoods
or
He’s educated waaay beyond his intelligence..............
12 posted on 12/09/2024 12:35:52 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
he subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes online,
We have to stop schools from teaching this climate change religion, it is messing these kids up. We need some serious school reform or we're lost as a nation.
13 posted on 12/09/2024 12:37:08 PM PST by 1Old Pro
To: Red Badger
Kazinski....common thread...
14 posted on 12/09/2024 12:37:25 PM PST by Sacajaweau
To: reasonisfaith
Either that or a trained assassin sent to stop Brian Thompson
If he's a trained assassin, Pelosi went to the bargain barrel. Looks as if he got his training from TikTok.
To: Red Badger
He looks like a ‘male model’ indeed.
16 posted on 12/09/2024 12:40:33 PM PST by texanyankee
To: Red Badger
as well as raged against the state of healthcare in the U.S.
And who is responsible for the sorry state of the U.S. healthcare system? Who created the mess?
17 posted on 12/09/2024 12:41:05 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Everyone that voted Trump/R in '24 needs to show up in '26.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Mangione’s victim, Brian Thompson, was being investigated for insider trading. Haven’t found a direct link to Pelosi.
But if he were a hired assassin, getting caught was likely part of the plan.
18 posted on 12/09/2024 12:42:12 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
To: SeekAndFind
Definitely a left wing extremist. The media won’t mention that.
19 posted on 12/09/2024 12:42:13 PM PST by Revel
To: Red Badger
“””Luigi Mangione, of Towson, Md”””
I am glad that an attentive McDonalds employee called the police.
BUT, why didn’t any of his family and friends call the police when that photo of him checking in at the NYC hostel went viral?
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