UnitedHealthcare CEO murder latest: Luigi Mangione’s mom reported him missing weeks before Thompson’s death

Luigi Mangione claimed he was “not sure” if cash found on him at the time of his arrest at an Altoona, Pennsylvania McDonald’s was “planted” as he was arraigned on Monday evening.

The suspected UnitedHealth CEO shooter took issue with prosecutors’ claims during his first court appearance at the Blair County Court House in Hollidaysburg, as he was read a full complaint by a judge.

Along with a ghost gun, a 262-page manifesto and false identification, prosecutors said he was carrying about $8,000 in US dollars and $2,000 in foreign currency, CNN reported.

Prosecutors also claimed that he had a faraday bag – a bag used to conceal wireless transmissions from devices.

Mangione told prosecutors that he’d “like to correct two things,” according to correspondent Danny Freeman.

According to Freeman, he said: “I don’t know where any of that money came from – I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication.”

Several members of Luigi Mangione book club “left” after the Brian Thompson murder suspect made members read the memoir of Ted Kaczynski – aka the Unabomber.

The 26-year-old, who was arrested and charged with UnitedHealth CEO murder on Monday in Pennsylvania, was found with a handwritten manifesto of his own that allegedly slammed the health care system.

In early 2023, Mangione started a book club in Hawaii, according to Sarah Nehemiah, who was Mangione when they both lived at a co-living space in Honolulu in 2022.

“Several members left due to discomfort in his book choices,” she told The Washington Post.

“The Unabomber Manifesto is what really pushed people over the edge.”

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, belongs to a well-established business family in Baltimore, Maryland.

The suspect’s paternal grandparents, Nicholas Mangione Sr and May Mangione, acquired the Turf Valley Country Club in Ellicott City in 1978. Twenty-years later, they founded the Hayfields Country Club in Cockeysville.

The Mangione family also owns Baltimore-based radio station WCBM-AM and the assisted-living facility, Lorien Health Services in Ellicott City, according to The Washington Post.

Nino Mangione, the shooting suspect’s cousin, serves in the GOP Maryland House of Delegates.

Mangione’s mother Kathleen Zannino Mangione, owns a boutique travel company, and his sister MariaSanta Mangione works as a medical resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

The family are “shocked and devastated” by the arrest, offering their “prayers to the family of Brian Thompson,” according to a statement shared on X by Nino.

Luigi Mangione’s University of Pennsylvania classmate said that the shooting suspect didn’t strike her as giving off a “Unabomber vibe”.

According to the woman, Mangione was a nice, shy guy, “like a typically socially awkward engineer” during his college years, she told The Independent.

“It’s really shocking… He never gave off a weird, creepy, Unabomber vibe,” she added. “I guess something really took a turn.”

On Monday, Mangione was charged with murder in connection to UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson’s death in Midtown Manhattan on December 4.

The classmate added: “I don’t think I’ll 100 percent believe [he did it] until it’s confirmed.”

The suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson reportedly went missing and cut off contact with family and friends last month after undergoing back surgery, it has been revealed.

Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and charged with murder over the “targeted” shooting of the healthcare exec in Midtown Manhattan back on December 4.

While the motive for the attack is still under investigation, new details are emerging about Mangione’s own health issues – and the impact they appear to have had on his life.

James Liddell has the full story.

Luigi Mangione’s former colleague said they were left “flabbergasted” following the arrest of the Brian Thompson shooting suspect in Pennsylvania on Monday.

The co-worker, remains anonymous, worked with Mangione as a counsellor at a Stanford University summer program in 2019 before the 26-year-old graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

“I am flabbergasted,” they told CNN, after describing Mangione as outgoing and socially charming. “I never got the impression he would self-destruct.”

Months prior to Luigi Mangione’s arrest, he had allegedly lost touch with friends and relatives.

Mangione is believed to have suffered with chronic back pain, which at points left him bed-bound.

And after allegedly undergoing a spinal operation earlier this year, Mangione went silent, a former high school classmate Aaron Cranston told The New York Times.

Concerned friends also reached out to Mangione on X as they attempted to make contact with him earlier this year.

“Nobody has heard from you in months,” one person tweeted in October.

“I don’t know if you are okay or just in a super isolated place and have no service. But I haven’t heard from you in months,” another read from July.

On November 18, weeks before Thompson’s death, Mangione was allegedly reported missing by his mother, possibly in San Francisco, law enforcement sources told the New York Post.