Hot Assassin taken into custody
Person of interest in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson ID’d as Luigi Mangione. pic.twitter.com/6Q1lkkm7Hq
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) December 9, 2024
Update: Apparently he’s a racist and transphobic incel who hates capitalism as of late (?). Let’s see how things unfold.
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.
The tech hotshot graduated cum laude (this wording) from the private Ivy League institution in Philadelphia with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Computer and Information Science in 2020, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He also completed a Master of Science in Engineering (MSE), Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, his profile states.
His LinkedIn suggests he is a data engineer at a car company based in California, although he lists his current home as Honolulu in Hawaii.
Mangione had a particularly personal reason to hate the medical community - its treatment of an ailing relative, sources said.
Online obituaries show he lost a grandmother in 2013 and grandfather in 2017.
His LinkedIn page indicates that he once worked in an assisted-living facility for the elderly for a few months in 2014, while still in high school.
It is unclear if Mangione has yet made any statements to cops.
Mangione also subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes, according to law-enforcement sources, citing online activity gleaned by authorities.
This was found in the manifesto in his backpack:
“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.
“Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.’’
The manifesto said the suspect acted alone, sources said.
luigi mangione stuns in new video. https://t.co/FJTyAu0bbn
- ayan. (@artan_ayan) December 9, 2024
Four years at a private boys’ school as valedictorian, followed by a combined BS and MS in four years. Half a million dollars in tuition later-Luigi Mangione end up murdering strangers.
Dude was doing it for the love of the game pic.twitter.com/P3V0nzAoS9
- Namek (@Namek623016) December 9, 2024
In the inevitable movie made about this, I suggest this casting
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