The suspect is charged with murder in the health care CEO shooting
Luigi Mangione: A New Type of Black Holes and the Importance of Predictions in the Age of Technicolor
Thompson was shot in the chest as he traveled to an investor meeting in New York City. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
After a shooting in New York, officials searched the city for a suspect, but later said they believed the person had left the city. Luigi Mangione was arrested Monday in Pennsylvania.
At the time of his arrest, Mangione had with him a ghost gun thought to be used in the shooting, a fake ID and three pages of text possibly indicating his motive, police said.
There are online accounts that show that Mangione is from the Baltimore area and was the valedictorian of the private Gilman School. He graduated with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and has a focus on artificial intelligence. He lived in Hawaii and was a data engineer.
“It’s impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out” was how he was quoted as saying on an online book review account.
Detection of the gun in the hands of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Thompson had been at UnitedHealth Group since 2004, serving in various executive roles for divisions including Medicare and employer and individual plans.
The New York Police Department said on Wednesday it has determined that the gun found in the possession of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, matches casings found at the scene of the shooting a week ago in Manhattan.
The police got the gun that was in question back from Pennsylvania, said Commissioner Jessica Tisch at the end of the press conference. It’s located at the NYPD crime lab.
“We were able to match that gun to the three shell casings that we found in Midtown at the scene of the homicide,” she added. “We’re also able in our crime lab to match the person of interest’s fingerprints with fingerprints that we found on both the water bottle and the Kind bar near the scene of the homicide in Midtown.”
Mangione yelled out to reporters that something was an insult to the American people as he was being escorted into the courthouse.
The University of Pennsylvania-educated data engineer graduated with two degrees in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence.
Online speculation surrounding his motives has in large part painted him as a populist hero on a righteous crusade against the wealthy. His digital footprint, however, paints a complicated picture about his interests, which appeared to include fitness regimens and philosophy.
New York Police have arrested Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old suspect in the killing of Brian Thompson, CEO of New York City-based abundance.com. Mangione was arrested on Monday with a fake ID and three pages of text possible indicating his motive, police said. Mangione had a gun, a fake ID and three pages of text, possibly indicating his motive, police added.