The suspect arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is an anti-capitalist Ivy League graduate who liked online quotes...
The suspect arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is an anti-capitalist Ivy League graduate who liked online quotes from “Unabomber’’ Ted Kaczynski and seethed in a manifesto, “These parasites had it coming,” law-enforcement sources revealed on Monday.
Luigi Mangione, 26, originally from Towson, Maryland, apparently hated the medical community because of how it treated his sick relative, sources said.
The former prep-school valedictorian was reportedly caught with a ghost gun that uses 9mm bullets, a silencer, a US passport, four fake IDs with names used during the killer’s stint in New York City and the manifesto.
The manifesto consisted of two-and-a-half handwritten pages that mirrored the quotes that Mangione posted on his Goodreads account from wacky anti-establishment Ted Kaczynski, the infamous “Unabomber’’ who terrorized the country for nearly two decades by planting deadly bombs before he was nabbed in 1996, sources said.
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’’ Kaczynski wrote at one point in a quote liked by Mangione.
“Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.’’
The manifesto said the suspect acted alone, sources said.
Mangione had a particularly personal reason to hate the medical community — its treatment of an ailing relative, sources said as Online obituaries show he lost a grandmother in 2013 and grandfather in 2017.
His LinkedIn page indicates that he once worked in an assisted-living facility for the elderly for a few months in 2014, while still in high school.
Mangione was valedictorian of his 2016 high school graduating class at the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he played soccer, according to online sites. High school tuition at the all-boys school is nearly $40,000 a year.
The tech guy graduated cum laude from the private Ivy League institution in Philadelphia with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Computer and Information Science in 2020, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The suspect also completed a Master of Science in Engineering (MSE), Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, his profile states.
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