Life in Hawaii was all about the beach for Luigi Mangione, until the well-endowed 26-year-old computer engineer flipped a switch and lost power, brutalizing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the Midtown Hilton Hotel. He is said to have fired a gun.
Exclusive photos obtained by the newspaper show the murder suspect sunbathing, dining with tanned friends and frolicking with two beautiful women in a penthouse at Surf Break, a “co-living” space in Honolulu near Waikiki. The photograph shows him doing so. , he stayed from January to June 2022, paying $2,000 a month.
In one photo, the murder suspect is seen cuddling up behind Tracy Lee, his arm around her as she smiles on the couch. Another snap shows Mangione tickling his girlfriend and another woman in a hallway.
“There was no visible smoldering anger,” Surf Break spokesperson Josiah Ryan told the Post.
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Lee, a data engineer from New York City, posted a photo on his Instagram account in April 2022 with the caption, “So many people in one photo.”
Mangione was “the only name I answered the phone on FaceTime. He was absolutely one of my best, closest and most trusted friends,” she wrote in the caption. TikTok videosThe footage shows Mangione, who is currently charged with killing Brian Thompson, 50, on a Midtown street, laughing alongside Lu while holding a bowl of mochi ice cream at the grocery store. was being shown.
The newspaper contacted many of the people in the photo, including Lu, but none responded to requests for comment or interviews.
The NYPD is investigating whether a July 2023 back injury fueled Mangione's apparent hatred of the medical industry.
After a five-day manhunt, Mr. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and was found with a three-page manifesto accusing “parasitic” health insurance companies of corporate greed.
The murder suspect is being held without bail at the State Correctional Facility in Huntington, Pennsylvania, and is fighting an extradition order to have him sent back to New York. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to numerous charges against him, including murder and illegal possession of a firearm.
His prison is a far cry from the alleged killer's early days. Mangione's grandfather, patriarch Nick Mangione Sr., built a wide network of businesses, from developing and owning local resorts and country clubs to nursing homes and radio stations in Baltimore.
There he attended the $35,000-a-year Gilman School, where he was valedictorian, but seemed socially shy.
“I don't remember him having any serious girlfriends. He was very shy around girls,” a classmate who requested anonymity told the Post.
painful paradise
Mangione, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, was working remotely as a data engineer at California-based automotive website TrueCar Inc. in 2022 when he moved to the surf break as a respite from chronic pain.
“He informed him that being in Hawaii might be good for his health concerns. Mangione underwent a background check, paid his own money at the surf break, had his own room there, and lived with housemates in a high-rise building.” They shared a kitchen and living space, Ryan recalled.
“He was liked by people. He wasn't a big party or anything. He loved hiking and doing things with people. [helped start] It’s a book club,” Ryan said.
But the Maryland native's medical problems worsened after he injured his lower back during a group surfing lesson, further aggravating his already injured lower back, according to friend RJ Martin. , Mangione in 2022.
“His spine was a little out of place,” Martin told The New York Times.
“He said his lower vertebrae were out of place about half an inch. I think he compressed a nerve.”
In search of pain relief, Mangione began practicing yoga with Honolulu-based yoga teacher Dorian Wright from 2022 to 2023. Mangione remembers having limited movement when performing poses that required her to bend her back.
“He was very clear when he told me where the back injury was…he was receptive to helping me overcome the injury,” Wright said.
Wright said another teacher at the studio named Summer immediately recognized her as a University of Pennsylvania graduate from the Tinder profile she matched with.
“One of our teachers matched with him on Tinder. She was taking my class at the same time as him. She said, 'I wanted to go up to him and ask him out on a date, but I was too nervous. '' Wright recalled Mangione's dating profile. Mangione was crouched and smiling in a navy hoodie with an active volcano in the background. About his profile picture.
Mangione lists traveling, reading, hiking, and working out as his hobbies.
“He's a tall, handsome guy — he's the only one I know.” [Mangione] We were potentially going on a date,” Wright told the Post.
But life wasn't all bright for the brunette bachelorette. In July 2023, Mangione posted on Reddit about his slip on the paper, noting that it hurt when he sat down and that the muscles in his leg were twitching. He complained of numbness in his groin.
Martin told the Times that this appeared to put Mangione's sex life aside, “because he knew it was impossible for him to date or be physically intimate given the condition of his back.” he said.
Her lower back pain became so severe that she consulted a doctor and eventually quit her job in 2023 to spend her time reading and doing yoga.
It is unclear whether Mr. Mangione was covered by medical insurance at the time. NYPD officials confirmed Thursday that the Ivy League graduate was not a customer of UnitedHealthcare's health plan.
free fall
He has written about major pharmaceutical companies and the medical industry, including books such as Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery and Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Vegetables. I continued reading. – and how to fight it. ” These titles were added to your Goodreads virtual bookshelf between May 2022 and February 2023.
The reading list also linked to a handwritten note detailing that Mangione suffers from spondylolisthesis, a condition in which a vertebrae slides or shifts into the vertebrae below.
He returned to the East Coast from Hawaii for spinal fusion surgery in July 2023, and then texted Martin an X-ray of his spine on August 10, the Times reported.
Mangione returned to Hawaii after the surgery and moved into a 1,000-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment in February, records show, but it's unclear whether he lives alone.
He seems to have become more radicalized, praising the Unabomber's Ted Kaczynski's 35,000-word manifesto in a four-star review on his Goodreads page, praising Unabomber's Ted Kaczynski's 35,000-word manifesto, a 17-year series to draw attention to society's addictions. He praised the domestic terrorists responsible for the bombing. Technology — “Political Revolutionary.”
Since March of this year, he has stopped responding to messages from friends, his own family, and his travels and whereabouts in the time leading up to the Dec. 4 shooting.
A concerned friend texted her in June, asking, “Where the hell is she?” There was no reply.
Mangione's family reported her missing in San Francisco on November 18th. A few days later, sources say, he arrived in New York City on a Greyhound bus from Atlanta, scouted the scene, and carried out his twisted plan to shoot Thompson with a 3D-printed ghost gun.
“He was in a lot of pain and needed a lot of help,” another high school classmate told the Post.
“Obviously I'm shocked, but there was always a darkness to him.”
