The suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO killer would reportedly play a video game that required you to be a secret assassin, according to a friend.
Alejandro Romero said he would play games online with the suspect, Luigi Mangione, during their time as students at the University of Pennsylvania, as reported by NBC News.
One of those games was "Among Us," in which there is a secret killer and the rest of the players are trying to figure out who it is.
"I just found it extremely ironic that, you know, we were in this game and there could actually be a true killer among us," Romero told the outlet.
As others have begun digging through Mangione's social media posts, such as his X and Goodreads accounts, to find clues about his character, Romero said that there were never any glaring red flags about the now-suspected killer.
"He just seemed like any other normal frat dude that you could see at a frat party," Romero told NBC News.
Mangione graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters in Computer Science in 2020, according to a LinkedIn profile of a person with the same name.
The 26-year-old was arrested and charged Monday with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of CEO Brian Thompson. He was originally brought in on gun charges before being charged with murder, as reported by ABC News.
Thompson was on his way to an investors meeting in Manhattan when he was shot multiple times by a masked individual. The shooter then fled on an e-bike, while Thompson later died of his injuries.
Mangione was reportedly found with a "ghost gun" that "looks very similar" to the one used in the murder, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told ABC News.
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