Who is the suspect in the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Luigi Mangione?
Police said a 26-year-old man was caught at a McDonald's restaurant with a gun and fake identification on him.
Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed by Luigi Mangione [Pennsylvania
Department of Corrections via AP].
In an apparent assassination that has captured the public's attention, a masked shooter shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a hotel in New York City last week.
The guy pulls out his gun and fires at least three close-range shots in the early hours of December 4, according to security camera footage. In the footage, the 50-year-old CEO falls to the pavement and eventually passes away from his injuries.
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1 Luigi Nicholas Mangione, 26, was taken into custody by police in the US state of Pennsylvania on Monday following days of conjecture on the identity and motivation of the shooter.
2 Our knowledge of the man identified as a "strong person of interest" in the deadly shooting is as follows.
Arrest
According to Commissioner Jessica Tisch of the New York Police Department (NYPD), Mangione was taken into custody at a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a staff member recognized the suspect from police images and informed the police.
Authorities said Mangione was wearing a blue surgical mask and sat at a table, staring at a silver laptop.
According to a criminal complaint, Mangione "became quiet and started to shake" when questioned if he had lately visited New York.
Tisch claims that when Mangione was arrested, he had several false identification documents with him, including a passport from the United States and one using the name Mark Rosario, which he had used to check into a hostel in New York City prior to the shooting.
According to authorities, Mangione also possessed a gun and a silencer, "both consistent with the weapon used in the murder."
Police believe the weapon to be a "ghost gun," which is a handgun that is put together at home without a serial number and may have been created with a 3D printer.
According to Tisch, Mangione had a "handwritten document" with him that details "both his motivation and mindset" for killing Thompson.
Authorities late on Monday charged Mangione with murder, possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police
Motivation
The handwritten message and its contents have not been made public by the police.
The words "These parasites had it coming" and "I do apologise for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done" were included in the note, according to US media, which cited anonymous law enforcement sources.
According to investigators, the words "defend," "deny," and "depose" were inscribed on shell casings discovered at the murder scene last week.
Many people have speculated that Mangione may have acted out of resentment at the US health insurance business by interpreting the remarks as a reference to strategies reportedly employed by the company to avoid paying claims to patients.
An empathetic critique of Industrial Society and Its Future, widely known as the Unabomber Manifesto, published from what looks to be Mangione's Goodreads account offers further insight into his potential reasoning.
According to the study, Ted Kaczynski was a "extreme political revolutionary" who carried out a decades-long bombing campaign around the United States that left three people dead and twenty-three injured.
To avoid dealing with some of the awkward issues it raises, it's simple to dismiss this as the manifesto of a madman in a hurry and without much consideration. However, it's hard to deny how accurate many of his forecasts about contemporary society were," the assessment states.
The review also labels people who disagree with the idea that "violence is necessary to survive" when all other means of communication are ineffective as "cowards and predators."
Kurt Vonnegut's comment, "America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are primarily poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves," was also liked by the same Goodreads account.
a favorite passage from
a liked quote from (what seems to be) Luigi Mangione's Goodreads account
— Jessica (Ka) Burbank (@SAJEELbank)
Background
Mangione was born into a wealthy family in the US state of Maryland, where he graduated from an elite all-boys private institution, the Gilman School, as high school valedictorian in 2016.
Mangione then attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the Ivy League school in 2020 with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science and a minor in mathematics.
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