Police have arrested a 26-year-old man who they have identified as a “strong person of interest” in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4.
On Tuesday (local time) NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told the press that a man named Luigi Mangione was arrested on firearms charges after being identified in a McDonalds in Pennsylvania. He was reportedly found with a gun, a silencer, four fake IDs and other items that police deemed “consistent” with what authorities were looking for.
Tisch confirmed that one of the four IDs was a “fraudulent New Jersey ID matching the ID our suspect used to check into his New York City hostel before the shooting”.
Mangione was also found with a three-page manifesto which had “ill will towards corporate America” and allegedly spoke to his motivations behind the crime.
“Additionally, officers recovered a handwritten document that speaks to both his motivation and mindset,” Tisch said.
According to CNN‘s law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller — who claimed to have read the manifesto — it critiqued health insurance companies for the way it prioritises profit over the care of customers.
He said it “talks about how these parasites had it coming” and starts by saying “I don’t want to cause any trauma, but it had to be done”.
Miller claimed that the manifesto “really kind of goes into problems with the health industry. He raises the question: ‘Why do we have the most expensive healthcare in the world but we’re rated 42 in life expectancy around the world?’… talking about the healthcare industry and the need for violence.”
Who is Luigi Mangione?
Luigi Mangione is currently the leading suspect in the death of UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompson. The 26-year-old was born in Maryland but was last known to be living in Honolulu, Hawaii.
According to his social media, he was the valedictorian of his all-boys private school in 2016 and went on to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer information science in 2020. He reportedly worked as an engineer for a car shopping website.
Since his name has been released publicly, internet sleuths have uncovered a GoodReads profile believed to belong to Mangione. There, he seemingly read and reviewed the 1995 anti-technology manifesto written by the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
“It’s easy to quickly and thoughtlessly write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out,” Mangione wrote in a review.
“He was a violent individual — rightfully imprisoned — who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”
As it stands, Mangione has not been charged. However, he is currently in custody.
The arrest comes after a week-long manhunt for the shooter. Although it did result in an arrest, it also sparked a significant amount of people thirsting over the Mangione after police shared a photo of him smiling.
It’s absolutely bonkers behaviour that makes me think we need to look inward. However, I will admit that many of these tweets are very funny.
On his X (formerly Twitter), Mangione has an upload of an x-ray, inspiring online sleuths to hypothesise that he may have gone through his own struggles with insurance companies.
Brian Thompson, 50, was gunned down on December 4 outside the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan. He died later that day in hospital, leaving behind his wife and two children.
At the scene, police discovered ammunition shells that had the words “Delay”, “Deny” and “Depose” written in permanent marker.
The phrase is similar to the phrase “delay, deny, defend” which is often used by lawyers to refer to the tactics allegedly used by insurance companies to avoid paying out claims to customers.
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