The person of interest identified in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student who posted online quotes from “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski furious at the country's medical community. I liked it.
Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old technology genius from Towson, Maryland, was arrested Monday morning after an intense investigation following Thompson's cold-blooded execution outside a Manhattan hotel last week, sources said. , was taken into custody at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
He has not been charged.
According to sources, the former preparatory school valedictorian was caught in possession of a manifesto that appeared to list complaints against the medical industry, including the exploitation of huge profits and suspicious motives.
It is believed that he acted alone, and it is unclear whether he has made any statements at this time.
Citing online activity collected by authorities, law enforcement officials say Mangione has shown disdain for the country's medical industry and has expressed support for anti-capitalist and climate change causes. It is said that there is.
Mangione's account on the Goodreads website lists everyone from Socrates to Bruce Lee to the infamous “Unabomber” who terrorized the nation for almost two decades by dropping deadly bombs until he was arrested in 1996. Even the eccentric dissident Kaczynski has his favorite quotes included. .
What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
- Brian Thompson, CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed in a “brazen, targeted attack” outside a luxury midtown hotel on Wednesday, police said.
- The methodical killer used a silenced gun outside the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue.
- The gunman fired multiple shots at Thompson, striking him in the back and right calf, before fleeing on foot.
- The NYPD releases new photos of the hooded suspect standing in front of the Starbucks counter at West 56th Street and Sixth Avenue, just minutes from the Hilton Hotel where Thompson, 50, was shot and killed. did.
- Mr. Thompson was appointed CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Justice Department.
- Thompson's wife, Paulette, said she had received threats before her husband was killed.
- New York City police are investigating whether live bullets or shell casings left behind by a masked assassin may have contained messages that appear to include the words “denial,” “resign,” and “defense.” .
- A dignitary was arrested by police inside a McDonald's store in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
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“Imagine a society that exposes people to situations that make them deeply unhappy and then gives them drugs to take away that unhappiness,” Kaczynski once wrote in a quote Mangione liked.
“Science Fiction” It already happens to some extent in our society. Instead of removing the symptoms that make people depressed, modern society gives people antidepressants. In fact, antidepressants change the internal state of the individual. It is a means of making it possible to tolerate social situations that would otherwise be considered intolerable.
Mangione was the 2016 high school valedictorian at Gilman School in Baltimore, where he played soccer, according to the online site. High school tuition for boys is about $40,000 a year.
Upon graduation, he said he plans to pursue a degree in artificial intelligence with an emphasis in computer science and cognitive science from the University of Pennsylvania, according to an interview with the Baltimore Fishbowl.
