The man who murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has now been identified by police and his name is Luigi Mangione. According to the New York Post, Mangione is an “anti-capitalist former Ivy League student” and climate-change activist who despised the healthcare industry.
Here’s more from The Post:
The person of interest identified in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student — who liked online quotes from “Unabomber’’ Ted Kaczynski raging against the country’s medical community.
Tech whiz Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson, Md., was taken into custody Monday morning at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., after an intense manhunt following the coldblooded execution of Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last week, sources said.
He has not been charged.
The former prep school valedictorian was caught with a manifesto that appeared to list grievances against the health care industry, including its taking of enormous profits and its alleged shady motives, sources said.
He is believed to have acted alone, and it was unclear if he had yet made any statements.
Mangione has subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes in addition to showing he despises the healthcare industry in the country, according to law-enforcement sources, citing online activity gleaned by authorities.
On the Goodreads website, Mangione’s account shows quotes he particularly likes ranging from Socrates to Bruce Lee — to wacky anti-establishment Ted Kaczynski, the infamous “Unabomber’’ who terrorized the country for nearly two decades by planting deadly bombs before he was nabbed in 1996.
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’’ Kaczynski wrote at one point in a quote liked by Mangione.
Mangione was valedictorian of his 2016 high school graduating class at the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he played soccer, according to online sites. High school tuition at the all-boys school is nearly $40,000 a year.
He said at the time of graduation that he planned to seek a degree in artificial intelligence, focused on the areas of computer science and cognitive science at the University of Pennsylvania, according to an interview with the Baltimore Fishbowl.
He won’t be doing any of that now. I’m so glad they caught him and it doesn’t surprise me that it happened so fast given the great detective work and the broadcasting of photos of him they found during their investigation.
I hope Mangione spends the rest of his life in prison. My only concern is that Alvin Bragg is the DA who will be prosecuting this case and there’s no telling what he may do to screw this up or get this murderer a lighter sentence.
UPDATE: Below are a couple of other photos of him: