Luigi Mangionethe suspect of killing the executive director of the health insurance company in New York UnitedHealthcarewas until this Monday a unknown promising young man from wealthy family who studied at an elite university and was passionate about video games.
Now, the 26-year-old is charged in New York with murder in the first degree and on three charges related to the possession of weapons for the death of the CEO of the insurance company, Brian Thompson, and remains held in a maximum level cell in a prison in Pennsylvania (USA).
The young man, who was arrested on Monday at a McDonald’s of this state after six days of intense search by the police, is also accused in Pennsylvania of five crimes related to possession of weapons and forgery.
This case has attracted notable public attention, in part because of the details that emerge from Mangione’s life and because of his extensive digital footprint that sheds light on his tastes and opinions.
Wealthy family and elite education
For now, it is known that Mangione He was born and raised in Maryland in a wealthy family. owner of several country music clubs, health centers and real estate companies, according to CBS News.
Thus, his paternal grandparents, Nicholas and Mary, founded the nursing home company Lorien Health Systems – where the suspect temporarily worked as a volunteer – and ran WCBM, a conservative Baltimore radio station.
According to CNN, his family also runs a family foundation which has almost $4.5 million in assets and has also long been one of the private and religious benefactors of Loyola University of Maryland.
The accused is, furthermore, first by the Republican congressman Nino Mangione.
Luigi Mangione, upon arrival for his appearance at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
Reuters
The Luigi Mangione’s political ideology is somewhat more ambiguous: on their social networks followed public and controversial figures like the podcaster Joe Rogan, the anti-vaccine Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Edward Snowden.
In your account Goodreads -an application in which users rate and review books- rated the book positively of the American terrorist Theodore Kaczynski, better known as Unabomberwhom he described as an “extreme political revolutionary.”
About the manifesto Unabombernoted: “When all forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like their methods, but seeing things from their perspective is not terrorism, but war and revolution.”
Long before these events, Mangione was the student with the best grades in his class at the prestigious institute Gilman School de Baltimoreand in 2020 he graduated in Computer Science with a specialization in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, one of the exclusive Ivy League.
There he was part of One Kappa Nowan academic society that admits a very limited number of students each year, according to the New York Times.
Back problems that prevented a normal life
Mangione’s last known address is in Hawaiiwhere he lived for a few months, first in a co-living space called Surfbreak and later in an apartment.
RJ Martin, founder of Surfbreak, told New York Times what Mangione had “back problems” and that his spine “was misaligned,” which prevented him from living a normal life.
He back pain worsened after a surfing incident and in 2023 Mangione returned to the East Coast of the country to undergo surgery. At one point, she stopped responding to Martin’s messages.
In recent months Mangione He has disappeared from the lives of his family and friends, some of whom left him messages on his social networks: “No one has heard from you for months, and apparently your family is looking for you,” said one of the posts, according to CNN.
Most of his loved ones have not known his whereabouts until Monday, when police revealed that he is the main suspect in the shooting death of Brian Thompson.