Luigi Mangione is people who are interested last week deadly gunfire United Healthcare CEO brian thompsonpolice announced on Monday. He is 26 years old. arrested above Firearms and other charges New York City police detectives were on the way to interview the gunman amid a massive manhunt after he was seen at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Here’s what we know about Mangione.
Luigi Mangione named person of interest in CEO shooting incident
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference that Mangione is considered a person of interest in the shooting. Tisch said officers arrested Mangione after a McDonald’s employee called police after spotting him at the Altoona McDonald’s on Monday morning. Tisch said officers questioned Mangione, who was acting suspiciously.
Tisch said officers found a gun and a suppressor on Mangioni that matched the weapon used in the Dec. 4 shooting of Thompson. police said gun Looks like a ghost gun. Police said clothing and a mask matching those of the suspect in the incident were also recovered.
Tisch said Mangione had multiple fraudulent identification documents and a U.S. passport. He said one of the IDs matched a fake New Jersey ID that the suspect used to check into a Manhattan hostel before the shooting.
Tisch said handwritten documents were also recovered from Mangione that “speak to both his motivations and his mindset.”
“I don’t believe that document contains any specific threats against other people, but it does appear to have some kind of malicious intent against American companies,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney told reporters. he said.
His LinkedIn says he works at TrueCar and has an Ivy League degree
According to his LinkedIn account, Mangione worked as a data engineer at car-buying website TrueCar. But a company spokesperson told CBS News that Mangione has not worked for the company since 2023.
Mangione graduated A Penn spokesperson confirmed this to CBS News. He earned a master’s degree in engineering with a major in computer and information science and a bachelor of science degree in engineering with a major in computer science and a minor in mathematics, a spokesperson confirmed.
While attending the University of Pennsylvania, he worked as a teaching assistant and founded a video game development club, according to his LinkedIn account.
At Stanford University in California, Mangione served as the lead counselor for the pre-college learning program during the summer of 2019, the university said in a statement to CBS News.
He has ties to Honolulu.
Kenney told reporters that Mangione’s last known address was in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mangione lived there in 2023, according to an Instagram video posted by the Surf Break Co-Living Community.
He is related to a prominent Maryland family.
Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, Kenney said. He is related to a prominent Maryland family that owns country clubs, medical facilities, and real estate companies. CBS News Baltimore Reported. He is also a cousin of Maryland State Representative Nino Mangione, who represents part of Baltimore County.
He graduated from Gilman School in Baltimore.
Mangione graduated According to his LinkedIn account, he graduated from Gilman School, a private all-boys school in Baltimore, in 2016. He was named valedictorian for achieving the highest cumulative GPA over four years, according to his LinkedIn page. He served as captain of the Gilman Robotics team and also received a scholarship award in 2014.
James Sandberg, a former classmate of Mr. Mangione, said: CBS Baltimore He said he wasn’t “particularly close” to Mangione, but knew him “somewhat” and that “he was a nice kid.”
Sandberg said he was “shocked” that someone shared an article naming Mangione as a person of interest in the shooting.
“I thought maybe it was another Luigi Mangione,” Sandberg said.
People messaged him on social media before his arrest
In the months leading up to Mangione’s arrest, posts tagging Mangione’s account on social media platform X suggest that Mangione’s friends may have been trying to contact him.
“I haven’t heard from anyone in months,” one post from October read.
Another post from July read, “I don’t know if you’re okay or if you’re just in a super isolated place with no services. But I haven’t heard from you in months.” .
He had an account on Goodreads
Mr. Mangione’s account on the Goodreads website included a four-star rating and review for “Industrial Society and its Future,” by Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber. In 2022, he added two healthcare books to his reading tab, including Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery and Back Mechanic.
The background image on Mangione’s X account shows an X-ray of his spine with hardware that reflects a previous surgery. It is unknown if this is an X-ray of Mangione’s spine. Mr. Mangione’s X account has reposted J. Krishnamurti’s quote, “Successful adaptation to a deeply sick society is not the measure of health,” at least twice, most recently in January 2024.
