Those who knew Luigi Mangione and his prominent Baltimore-area family are stunned that the 26-year-old has been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Mangione attended an elite private school and then completed an Ivy League education. He comes from a family where real estate success, charity and local politics play a major role.

The 26-year-old was “just the last person you would suspect,” said Thomas J. Maronick Jr., a lawyer and radio host who knows several members of the Mangione family The New York Times.

“It’s just such a well-respected family and such a prominent family in Baltimore County,” he said.

The shocking shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week in New York City is something of a static anomaly.

New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with first-degree murder.

According to ABC News, the charges in New York were filed hours after he was charged with gun crimes in Pennsylvania. Magione was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Online retailer Amazon has removed merchandise that purportedly celebrates the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Dealers briefly listed T-shirts and sweatshirts with the slogan “Defy / Defend / Depose,” a reference to words on ammunition casings found near the shooting site.

The company withdrew such products soon after, The Washington Post Reports.

The Mangione family has spoken out following Monday’s arrest of Luigi Mangione, who is believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Read her full remarks below, courtesy of NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin.

What is a ghost gun? Since the advent of 3D printers in the early 2010s, these untraceable firearms have become increasingly common in American criminal cases.

However, because these weapons do not have serial numbers, it is essentially impossible to know how many have been sold, how many are in circulation, and how many have been used in crimes.

Friends of Luigi Mangione from his time in Hawaii provide new details about the person involved in the UnitedHealthcare shooting.

Mangione used to live at Surfbreak, a shared apartment near Ala Moana Park on the island of O’ahu, but his friends stopped hearing from him over the summer, Honolulu Civil Beat reports.

“He was such a considerate and deeply compassionate person in everything he did,” Jackie Wexler, a former resident, told the outlet.

Friends described Mangione as suffering from chronic back pain caused by an apparent pinched nerve and said he helped start a book club at Surfbreak that read Ted the “Unabomber” Kaczynski’s manifesto as a joke.

Mangione later appeared to check the text on a Goodreads account.

Police have not released the full contents of an apparent manifesto found about the person of Luigi Mangione, the person involved in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

So far, officials have only publicly described the general content, including “a bad will toward corporate America” ​​and threats such as “These parasites have done it.”

The manifesto supposedly mentions Thompson by name, The New York Times reports citing a senior law enforcement source.