The wanted person was picked up at a McDonald’s location near Altoona, Pennsylvania, after an employee thought he was suspicious and called police. Police found on him a gun similar to the one used to kill Thompson last week, along with a silencer, per NBC4 New York.

He was also carrying a fake New Jersey ID that was identical to the one the shooter used to check into a Manhattan hostel last week under the name “Marc Rosario.”

New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the person arrested had a manifesto that “speaks to both his motivation and his mindset.”

Accordingly CNNCiting police officers who allegedly saw the document, he wrote: “These parasites had it coming” and “I apologize for any disruption and trauma, but it had to be done” – and said he acted alone and himself financed.

Mangione was not charged in connection with Thompson’s death but was arrested on firearms charges.

“He is currently believed to be the person we believe to be involved in the brazen, targeted assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last Wednesday in Midtown Manhattan,” Tisch said, along with New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, in a press conference on Monday.

“It appears that he had some dislike for the American economy,” New York Police Department Chief Detective Joseph Kenny told reporters at the briefing.

As police continue their investigation into the shooting and investigate Mangione’s possible connection to Thompson’s death, here’s everything we know so far about the NYPD figure.

According to NBC4 New York, Mangione graduated at the top of her class in 2016 from Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland. According to reports, tuition at the school is $37,690 per year The New York Times.

According to his Twitter bio, Mangione holds BSE and MSE degrees in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated in May 2020, according to a spokesperson who spoke to ABC 7 Eyewitness News.

The courses he studied there included courses in artificial intelligence, big data analysis, data structures and algorithms, and probability, according to his LinkedIn page. According to his own Instagram posts, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity during his time there.

The 26-year-old was born and raised in Maryland before moving to Honolulu, Hawaii until recently, as reported by The Independent. He has also reported connections to San Francisco.

Police are reportedly investigating whether he traveled by bus from Philadelphia to Altoona, where he was spotted about 240 miles away on Monday. Police said he arrived in New York City by bus in late November.

Although he has not been active on social media in recent years, his presence on both was quickly discovered Instagram And X (formerly Twitter). Mangione hasn’t posted on X since June, while it’s been more than three years since he posted on IG.

His follower count on X was under 100 before the news broke, while on Instagram he had less than 1000 followers. Both numbers have since begun to rise dramatically.

Mangione’s first post on his Instagram was a greeting to his sister Lucia, followed by a series of vacation photos, travel photos and social gatherings with friends and family.

His last post for X was a repost of a podcast where he talked about smartphones and social media and how they can rewire the brain and impact mental health. In his pinned post at the top of his feed, he remembers his high school graduation speech about artificial intelligence.

Most of Mangione’s recent content includes reposts of stories that destroy the industrialized food industry, fear and caffeine, the dangers of atheism and DEI, as opposed to stories that promote the use of psychedelic drugs as therapy.

Mangione also had a GoodReads account where he posted in January 2024 that he was actively reading Markus Zusak’s book The book thiefas well as How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics And The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Mealsboth by Michael Pollan.

Books he expressed interest in reading include Martin J. Rees’ Our Final Hour: A Scientist’s Warning – How terror, mistakes and environmental catastrophe threaten humanity’s future in this century – on Earth and beyondAyn Rand’s Atlas shrugged and George Orwell’s 1984.

His list also included books about nutrition and health, as well as several books that appear to be about overcoming pain, including Crooked: Outsmart the back pain industry and get on the road to recovery, Can’t Hurt Me: Control your mind and defy all oddsAnd Becoming a Lithe Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Pain Relief, Injury Prevention, and Optimizing Athletic Performance.

Mangione has also reviewed several books himself, including a version of Ted Kaczynski’s “Unabomber” manifesto written on January 31, 2024. Industrial society and its future.

“It is easy to quickly and thoughtlessly dismiss this as the manifesto of a madman in order to avoid confronting some of the unpleasant issues it identifies. But it is simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society have proven to be,” Mangione wrote.

“He was a violent individual – lawfully imprisoned – who mutilated innocent people. While these actions are more accurately characterized as those of a crazed idiot, they are more accurately viewed as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”

Mangione went on to share someone else’s “opinion” on the book, which he said he found “interesting.” This “take” from an unknown person began with the words: “Had the courage to realize that peaceful protest has gotten us absolutely nowhere, and at the end of the day he’s probably right. Oil barons didn’t listen to any environmentalist, but they were afraid of him.”

This “attitude” argued: “When all other forms of communication fail, violence is essential to survival. You may not like his methods, but if you look at things from his perspective, it’s not terrorism, it’s war and revolution.”

“These companies do not care about you, your children or your grandchildren,” this joint “assessment” continues. “They have no qualms about burning the planet for a dollar. So why should we be concerned about burning them down to survive?”

“We are animals like everything else on this planet, except we have forgotten the law of the jungle and bend for our overlords, while any other animal would recognize the threat and fight to the death for survival,” the author shared. take,” concluded. “’Violence has never solved anything’ is a statement made by cowards and predators.”

Among more than 100 quotes from philosophers and authors on his GoodReads profile, Mangione also had one from Kaczynski: “Imagine a society that exposes people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, and then gives them drugs to manage their unhappiness eliminate. Science Fiction-It.” This is already happening to some extent in our own society, with modern society prescribing antidepressants to alter the individual’s internal state so that they can tolerate social conditions that they would otherwise consider would find unbearable.”

On May 14, 2024, Mangione shared a quote from Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five It began with the words: “America is the richest nation on earth, but its population is largely poor, and poor Americans are driven to hate themselves.”

Another passage from Vonnegut that Mangione quoted said: “Americans, like people everywhere, believe many things that are patently untrue. Their most destructive falsehood is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They won’t admit how hard it actually is.” Money is supposed to come, and that’s why those who don’t have money keep blaming and blaming themselves. This internal guilt is a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since about Napoleonic times.”

In the quotes section, the first one Mangione shares is one from Joe De Sena The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train better. Think better. Be better. This quote says: “It is said that a healthy person has a thousand wishes, but a sick person has only one wish – to get well.”