Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of United Healthcare's CEO, was praised by his classmates at a private school in Maryland as having the “best pick-up line,” according to his yearbook.
A profile image of Mr. Mangione at the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he enrolled in sixth grade, shows his classmates calling him the school's most accomplished pick-up artist.
In his yearbook obtained by SWNS, Mangione called his school experience “glorious” and thanked his parents for giving him the opportunity to attend private school.
“I'll admit it, no matter how much I hated it at the time, [you] Sending me to Gilman was the best thing that ever happened to me. I love you,” Mangione wrote.
His profile page also shows that Mangione had several nicknames at school, including “Pepperoni,” “Squeegee,” and “30 Degrees.”
Mangione's classmates described him as kind, “just a normal guy,” and a “smart kid” who will be valedictorian in 2016, according to SWNS.
A former classmate and friend who said Mr. Mangione would just do “normal high school things” said he was “completely shocked” to hear the news that Mr. Mangione had been charged with the murder of Brian Thompson. he told the news agency. New York City.
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.
- 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.
- The Thompson shooting sparked an online frenzy and even sparked a tasteless lookalike contest in New York.
- A dignitary was arrested by police inside a McDonald's store in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
- The suspect has been identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson, Maryland. He was a former Ivy League student who hated the medical world.
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Mangione was found and arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a five-day manhunt.
The 26-year-old was charged with three counts of murder, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a forged instrument and was arraigned in Blair County Court, where he was denied bail.
During the arrest, police found a ghost gun with a silencer and other items that officials said were “consistent” with what police were searching for. It included a three-page handwritten manifesto to the medical industry that claimed it had been “waiting for these parasites to arrive.” ”
At Tuesday afternoon's extradition hearing, Mangione could be heard screaming as he made his first comments since his arrest.
“This is extremely outrageous and an insult to the intelligence and lived experience of the American people,” Mangione said.
Mr. Mangione has chosen to resist extradition to New York and is currently being held at the state prison in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
