Luigi Mangione charged with murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as Ivy League-educated ‘hitman’s’ ‘shocked and devastated’ family breaks silence

New York Police cops, including Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry, arrive at Altoona Police Department following the arrest of Luigi Mangione.

Mangione often posted his ideas of self-improvement on social media – and his X account was littered with him responding to big thinkers.

He interacted with people like neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and writer Tim Urban.

Watch his valedictorian speech below:

Suspect in killing of CEO Brian Thompson was 2016 valedictorian

Adams told a Monday afternoon news conference he thinks people wearing face masks should pull them down and show their faces when entering shops and taxis.

Mangione was wearing a Covid-style face covering in many of the surveillance images police used to track him down.

This obscuration proved a major roadblock in their search, Adams said.

‘Last year or earlier this year we called to say, when you go into a business or establishment, ask people to temporarily remove their mask,’ he said.

‘We can close these cases in hours if everybody would cooperate.’

It was the image of Mangione briefly seen without his face covering at a Starbucks which led to his identification by a McDonald’s employee in another state.

Police recovered a fake New Jersey driving license from Mangione when they detained him in Altoona on Monday.

Mangione had been using multiple fake IDs, including the below license issued in June, where he is posing as ‘Mark Rosario’.

Gilman School in Baltimore, where Luigi Mangione graduated as valedictorian in 2016, has sent an email to alumni in the wake of his arrest.

‘This is deeply distressing news on top of an already awful situation,’ school head Henry P.A. Smyth wrote, per the New York Times.

‘Our hearts go out to everyone affected.’

Tuition at the private high school currently costs almost $40,000 a year.

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The suspect had been working as a data engineer at TrueCar Inc for the past four years, according to his LinkedIn profile.

TrueCar is a car pricing and digital retailing website based in Santa Monica, California.

The LinkedIn profile also listed his college education – including an Engineering BA and MA both from UPenn.

The health insurance company released a statement in response to Mangione’s arrest.

‘Our hope is that today’s apprehension brings some relief to Brian’s family, friends, colleagues and the many others affected by this unspeakable tragedy,’ the firm said.

‘We thank law enforcement and will continue to work with them on this investigation. We ask that everyone respect the family’s privacy as they mourn.’

In the manifesto, Luigi Mangione said he acted alone and that he was self-funded.

According to CNN, the alleged CEO shooter’s words suggested violence was the answer.

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Some details from Luigi Mangione’s manifesto, which was found on him when he was arrested, have been published by CNN.

The document, which spanned two pages, read: ‘These parasites had it coming.

‘I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.’

The document was two pages long, and is currently being investigated by law enforcement.

The suspected CEO shooter was interested in strange, anti-establishment literature, according to what seems to be his online Goodreads account.

He left a positive review for the manifesto of domestic terrorist Theodore Kaczynski, the infamous ‘Unabomber’, praising him as a ‘political revolutionary’.

In January this year, the account left a four-star review of the book, called Industrial Society and Its Future.

‘Clearly written by a mathematics prodigy. Reads like a series of lemmas on the question of 21st century quality of life,’ the review reads.

‘It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies,’ it continues.

‘But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.’

Luigi Mangione was arrested on firearm charges on Monday – and has been named as a person of interest in the death of Brian Thompson.

Apart from his intellectual, Ivy League-educated background, questions have been raised about the suspect’s history with the medical community.

As of Monday afternoon, he has not been charged in the death of Brian Thompson.

Mangione allegedly has an ailing relative who was mistreated by the health system.

He also lost his grandmother in 2013, and his grandfather in 2017.

The 26-year-old also used to work in an assisted-living facility for the elderly while he was studying at his $40,000-a-year high school in Maryland.

The handwritten manifesto found on Mangione indicated that he ‘has some ill will toward corporate America,’ NYPD’s Joseph Kenny said.

He added that there was no indication that anyone else would be in danger.

Joseph Kenny, the chief of detectives at NYPD has said the ghost gun found on Mangione may have been created using a 3D printer.

He added that it can fire a nine-millimeter bullet.

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Luigi Mangione is originally from Towson, Maryland, and is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student, according to the New York Post.

He has ties to San Francisco, and used to live in Honolulu, Hawaii, cops confirmed. He has not been charged in connection to the death of Thompson.

Mangione was valedictorian at the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he graduated in 2016.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told a press conference on Monday afternoon that Luigi Mangione was seen ‘acting suspiciously’ in the McDonald’s on Monday morning.

‘The suspect was in a McDonald’s and was recognized by an employee who then called local police,’ she told a press conference.

‘He was carrying multiple fraudulent IDs as well as a US passport,’ Tisch added.

Luigi Mangione was named as the person of interest in the fatal shooting of Brian Thompson, police confirmed on Monday.

The 26-year-old suspect is originally from Towson, Maryland, and is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student – who was valedictorian at his high school.

The man has ties to San Francisco, and used to live in Honolulu, Hawaii, cops confirmed. He has not been charged in connection to the death of Thompson.

He was arrested on firearm charges on Monday, after an elderly McDonald’s worker spotted him inside the restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said: ‘Members of the Altoona Police Department arrested Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old male, on firearms charges.

‘At this time, he is believed to be our person of interest in the brazen targeted murder of Brian Thompson.’

Thompson was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan last week, ahead of a work conference. He was the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, one of the largest medical insurers in the country.

Mangione, 26, does not have a criminal history, and police said his name was not on their radar until the arrest in Pennsylvania today.

He was found with a gun, a silencer, and a manifesto, which outlined his disdain for the healthcare system. The man was also wearing clothes that matched the description of the suspect.

Mangione attended the coveted University of Pennsylvania, where he gained a degree in engineering in 2020. Before this, he graduated as valedictorian from the Gilman School in Baltimore, where tuition costs nearly $40,000 a year.

The man being questioned by cops in Altoona in connection with the murder of CEO Brian Thompson has been identified as Luigi Mangione, 26.

Three law enforcement officials gave the name to the New York Times.

Mangione was detained as a person of interest at a McDonald’s in the Pennsylvania city on Monday morning.

He has not been charged in connection with the shooting.

The 911 caller who potentially identified the gunman at the Altoona McDonald’s was an ‘elderly patron’ according to an anonymous law enforcement official speaking with the New York Times.

They called cops around 9.15am on Monday after spotting the man they believed matched surveillance images of the gunman shared by police.

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An anonymous law enforcement official said the man detained in an Altoona used the same fake New Jersey ID as one the alleged gunman presented in a New York City hostel.

They told the New York Times it matched the ID presented to the hostel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on November 24, when the shooter is believed to have arrived in the city.

The manifesto found on the man detained in Altoona was handwritten and criticized health care companies for putting profits above care, an anonymous law enforcement official told the New York Times.

No further details about the manifesto have been given so far.

The alleged assassin has only been seen in grainy surveillance images so far, and police are yet to make an arrest or release a suspect identity.

Read DailyMail.com’s coverage exploring everything we know so far about Thompson’s killer.

The exact location of the McDonald’s branch where customers may have flagged down Thompson’s shooter has been revealed.

According to the New York Times, cops snagged the person of interest inside the McDonald’s at 407 East Plank Road in the south of Altoona, Pennsylvania.

The newspaper said a 911 call was made from the cafe at around 9.15am on Monday.

The man in custody in Pennsylvania connected with Thompson’s murder allegedly had a manifesto on him when cops detained him in Altoona, according to the New York Post.

He also had four fake IDs, a silencer and a gun similar to the Brugger & Thomet VP9 which is believed to have been used in the shooting, per the newspaper.

No details about what was written in the manifesto have been disclosed.

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A customer in an Altoona, Pennsylvania McDonald’s flagged a man in the cafe to police after recognizing him from surveillance footage images, according to ABC News.

Customers described the man as ‘suspicious’ before police took him away, per NBC.

The man being questioned over the murder of Brian Thompson has been detained at a McDonald’s in the small Pennsylvania city of Altoona.

Located in Blair County around 100 miles east of Pittsburgh, the city is home to around 125,000 people.

Altoona is still known as a railroad town after it was founded while the Pennsylvania Railroad was being constructed through it in 1849.

It sports a museum paying homage to its railroad history, the Altoona Curve baseball team stadium, and several tourist attractions including a water park.

It’s not know where exactly in Altoona the man allegedly connected with the shooting was stopped by police.

The man being questioned in Pennsylvania was snagged by police after someone tipped them off, according to CNN.

Two law enforcement sources told the broadcaster the man was traveling by bus in Altoona, Pennsylvania with a suppressor – a gun silencer – and several fake IDs.

Thompson’s killer planned out the murder to the last excruciating detail, a former lieutenant commander of the NYPD said.

Retired Lieutenant Joe Cardinale told Fox News the suspect has likely relished the attention he’s received in recent days, painting him as a smooth operator.

However, he also described him as arrogant – something which could be his undoing.

It comes as a man is now being questioned in Pennsylvania.

The man being questioned in Altoona, Pennsylvania about the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has a similar gun to the one used in the shooting, according to NBC.

Sources told the outlet it’s too soon to determine whether the interrogation is directly connected to Thompson’s death, but NYPD detectives are headed to the area where he had been detained to assist investigators.

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Brian Thompson’s family is holding a private funeral today for him in Minnesota.

FBI profilers say the suspect has likely enjoyed all of the media attention he’s been receiving since evading the NYPD on Wednesday after killing Brian Thompson.

A man in Altoona, Pennsylvania has been questioned as part of the investigation into Brian Thompson’s murder, reports NBC News.