Who is Luigi Mangione? ‘Person of interest’ identified in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
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Who is Luigi Mangione? ‘Person of interest’ identified in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

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Authorities on Monday announced the arrest of 26-year-old Luigi Mangione on firearms charges, identifying him as a “strong person of interest” in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was fatally shot last Wednesday, and said Mangione complies the suspect’s description and appeared to have “motivation.”

Important facts

NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference that Mangione, 26, was arrested on firearms charges and said he “appears to be our subject of involvement in the brazen targeted killing” of Thompson.

She said Mangione was recognized at a McDonald’s and reported to local police, who then discovered he had “several fake IDs,” a U.S. passport, a firearm and a silencer similar to those used in the murder. as well as a “handwritten document that attests to both” his motivation and way of thinking.”

NYPD Chief Detective Joseph Kenny said Mangione will be charged with weapons possession in Pennsylvania and will be extradited to New York to face charges there as well.

Mangione, a Maryland native, most recently lived in Honolulu, Hawaii, has no history of arrests in New York or elsewhere in the country and may have attended college in Pennsylvania, police said.

Social media pages apparently intended for Mangione say he graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 and was valedictorian of the Gilman School, a private college, in 2016. 12 school in Maryland, was.

The New York Times reported that Mangione was the valedictorian when he graduated from the all-boys private school in 2016, giving a speech in which he described how his class “developed new ideas and challenged the world around them.”

The Daily Pennsylvanian – Penn’s student newspaper – reported that Mangione founded the school’s Game Research and Development Environment Club and that he was inducted into the Eta Kappa Nu honor society for excellence in electrical and computer engineering before his graduation in 2020.

A LinkedIn page apparently belonging to Mangione describes internships at the Johns Hopkins Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics and Firaxis Games before working as an engineer for TrueCar, a car shopping website based in California, for four years .

This story is current and will be updated.

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Have the police given a motive?

Police have not given an official motive for Thompson’s killing. Officers found three 9mm cartridges at the scene and the words “deny,” “defend” and “deposit” were visible on the shell casings, reflecting a phrase often used to describe insurance companies’ denial tactics to criticize claims. At Monday’s news conference, Kenny said that the three-page handwritten manifesto Mangione found when he was arrested was in the possession of Altoona police, but that “it appears that he has some antipathy toward the American economy.” Kenny also said the document did not contain any other “specific threats” to individuals.

Important background

Thompson, 50, was CEO of the health insurance division of the $550 billion UnitedHealth Group and was in New York City on Wednesday for UnitedHealth Group’s investor meeting – which was canceled after the shooting. He was shot in the back and hit in the back and right calf just before 7 a.m. on Dec. 4 outside the New York Hilton Midtown, prompting the suspect to flee the area on foot and on an electric bicycle. Minnesota-based Thompson has been CEO since April 2021 and has been with UnitedHealth Group since 2004. Video of the shooting showed the suspect walking out behind Thompson – who had no security detail – before firing multiple times. Before the arrest, police said they believed the shooting was a “brazen targeted attack” and searched New York City before believing the suspect had left the city on a bus. Thompson’s wife, Paulette Thompson, told NBC News, “There have been some threats,” but did not provide details about the threats. Thompson had two sons, one who had just graduated from high school and one who was still in high school. Police had searched for the shooter by deploying dive teams in Central Park, flying helicopters, searching surveillance cameras in the area, using drones and using dogs. They have released several photos of the suspected shooter since Wednesday, but in which his face was mostly obscured.

Big number

$10,000. That depends on how much the NYPD offered to anyone with information about Thoimpson’s murder.

Further reading

ForbesUnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in NYC: Police still searching for shooter (Updates)From Lindsey Choo
ForbesWho is Brian Thompson? UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot after making threatsFrom Mary Whitfill RoeloffsForbes“Deny,” “Defend,” “Reject”: What you should know about words reportedly on bullet casings linked to UnitedHealthcare CEO shootingFrom Molly BohannonForbesShooter still at large days after shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO – here’s what we know about the suspectFrom Stephen Pastis

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