December 24, 2024

The suspect killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4, 2024, in midtown Manhattan.

Source: NYPD

The man considered a “prime suspect” in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was a private school valedictorian and technology wizard who used social media to criticize society.

Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson, Maryland, has multiple social media accounts, including Goodreads, which he used to comment on an anti-technology manifesto written by “college bomber” Ted Kaczynski Personal data. Five-star four-star rating.

Mangione wrote that while Kaczynski was a “violent individual” and “justifiably imprisoned,” his actions “are more accurately viewed as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”

During his criminal career, Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 others with letter bombs.

Mangione’s review also shared some unattributed quotes justifying violence against businesses and their leaders: “When all other forms of communication fail, violence is a necessity for survival.”

When Mangione was arrested Monday morning in Altoona, Pennsylvania, authorities said he was armed with his manifesto, a three-page handwritten document.

Closed-circuit screenshots of people involved in the murder of United Healthcare CEO.

Source: NYPD

He was also found carrying a gun and silencer similar to the one used when he fatally shot Thompson, 50, at point-blank range on a downtown Manhattan sidewalk last Wednesday.

Mangione graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree and received a Master of Science degree in Computer and Information Science in 2020.

He was also the valedictorian of his high school class at Gilman School, a private boys’ school in Baltimore, Maryland. tuition fee Tuition for ninth grade and above is up to $37,000.

2016 postal Gilman cited Mangione’s commencement speech, in which he praised his class for having “the incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things.”

Gilman School Principal Henry Smith confirmed Monday that Mangione is an alumnus.

“This is deeply sad news in an already dire situation,” Smith wrote in a letter to the school, according to NBC News. “Our hearts go out to all those affected. exist.

The LinkedIn page also shows that Mangione lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and currently works as a data engineer at TrueCar, a car-buying technology startup.

A TrueCar spokesperson told CNBC on Monday that Mangione has not worked with the company since 2023.

The rest of Mangione’s profile lists his work experience teaching artificial intelligence to high school students through a Stanford University program, founding a “video game development club” at Penn State, and interning with the game development team behind Civilization VI. .

An NYPD information poster hangs outside a hotel on the Upper West Side in New York City where the suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is believed to have stayed, on December 5, 2024. The hotel.

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Mangione has also posted regularly on X (formerly Twitter) for years, but has not posted since June.

Mangione shares various views on technology, politics, and culture in his X posts. At times, these views seem consistent with nascent forms of populist conservatism.

“Horror vacui (Nature abhors a vacuum),” he wrote in an April post that included a link to an article titled “Christianity’s Decline Unleashes Terrifying New Gods.”

In another article that day, he argued that “the modern Japanese urban environment does not match the evolution of the human animal.”

In a May 15 post, he wrote that former Fox News host Tucker Carlson “accurately recognized that modern architecture kills the spirit.”

Mangione is the scion of an influential Baltimore family that owns country clubs and founded nursing home company Lorien Health Services. Baltimore Banner Report.

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