Luigi Mangione identified as suspected CEO shooter as he’s seized in McDonald’s with a chilling manifesto
A brilliant student who graduated his school’s valedictorian and appeared to have a job in a tech company has been arrested over the execution murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested in McDonald’s Altoona, Pennsylvania, at 9am after both a worker and an elderly patron spotted him and called the police.
He was detained on firearm charges and and was carrying a ‘ghost gun’, believed to have been made with a 3D printer, when he was arrested.
He is the prime suspect in the execution-style killing of Thompson, 50, outside the Hilton hotel on December 4th.
Mangione is originally from Towson, Maryland, and is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student who attended one of Baltimore’s most prestigious schools, the $40,000-a-year Gilman.
Mangione was valedictorian in 2016 and made a powerful speech about his experiences at the school.
Gilman School Head of School Henry P.A. Smyth said in the email on Monday that the arrest was ‘deeply distressing news on top of an already awful situation’.
After leaving school Mangione attended the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania where he studied computer science and engineering. He has spent four years working in a software company based in Santa Monica, California, called TrueCar.
The musclebound suspect has ties to San Francisco, and used to live in Honolulu, Hawaii, cops confirmed.
Police sources said he was was angry at the way the medical insurance industry treated a sick relative, according to the New York Post.
Further details on that relative or their identity have not been shared, although online obituaries show Mangione lost a grandmother in 2013 and a grandfather in 2017.
His X account also shows an x-ray of complicated neck surgery.
Pictured: Luigi Mangione
Pictured: The suspect believed to be involved in the shooting of Brian Thompson
The suspected killer was also a fan of ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, and referenced quotes from him on health and sickness on his Goodreads page.
‘Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’ read one excerpt from a Kaczynski quote on Mangione’s Goodreads page.
‘The concept of ‘mental health’ in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress,’ read another.
Cops arrested Mangione after a 911 call was made from the cafe about 9.15am on Monday.
The 911 caller who potentially identified the gunman at the Altoona McDonald’s was an ‘elderly patron’ according to an anonymous law enforcement official.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed on Monday afternoon that Mangione was in possession of a gun, silencer and a fraudulent New Jersey ID.
Luigi Mangione was arrested on firearm charges and is the person of interest
Mangione was a known anti-capitalist, according to his social media
Luigi Mangione, pictured with a McDonald’s Happy Meal, was spotted in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s
The ID matched the one the suspected killer used to check into a NYC hostel on November 24.
He was also found with a manifesto – which allegedly showed he was irate about the healthcare industry and its profits.
According to Tisch, 26-year-old Mangione also had clothing on him that matched the gunman’s clothing.
The Commissioner thanked the public for their help, saying: ‘We should never underestimate the power of the public to be our eyes and ears.’
‘He had ill will against corporate America,’ Joseph Kenny said of Mangione.
Kenny said that the ‘ghost’ gun he allegedly used to kill Brian Thompson may have been made with a 3D printer.
Thompson was gunned down outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan at 6:44am on Wednesday December 4.
The doomed CEO had arrived in the city to host UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor meeting, where he was set to detail bumper profits.
Brian Thompson is seen in a professional headshot taken before he was brutally gunned-down by a suspect police say is Luigi Mangione
Harrowing surveillance camera footage showed Thompson being shot at point blank range by three bullets.
Afterwards the shell casings were found to have the words ‘deny,’ ‘defend’, ‘depose’ written on them, in an apparent attack on health industry practices.
Thompson lived in a $1 million mansion in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a mile from the home of wife Paulette, from whom he was separated.
