The Story of the Unabomber: A Tale of Two Crazy Phenomena and Two Deaths During a Magic Breakup
A person shot Thompson in the chest as he was about to go to an investor meeting. He was pronounced dead shortly after.
Mangione is in custody in Pennsylvania on weapons and forgery charges. He is fighting extradition to New York, where he faces charges of second-degree murder and firearms charges.
Police said that at the time of Mangione’s arrest, he had a fake ID and three pages of text in his possession that may have indicated his motives.
Online accounts and school records show that Mangione was the valedictorian of the private Gilman School from the Baltimore area. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, both in computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence. He was living in Hawaii and worked as a data engineer.
His interests ranged from literature to philosophy. Mangione wrote that it’s easy to write off the “Unabomber” as a book of crazy ideas in order to not face some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. It is impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions have turned out.
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect in the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was recently convicted of an “insult to the American people”
Thompson had been CEO of UnitedHealthcare since 2021, but had been at UnitedHealth Group since 2004, serving in various executive roles for divisions including Medicare and employer and individual plans.
The New York Police Department said on Wednesday it has determined that the gun found in the possession of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, matches casings found at the scene of the shooting a week ago in Manhattan.
In a brief response to questions at the end of an unrelated afternoon press conference, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said police “got the gun in question back from Pennsylvania. It’s now at the NYPD crime lab.”
She said that they were able to match that gun to the shell casings found at the scene of the homicide. The person of interest’s fingerprints have been matched in the crime lab with those on a water bottle and a bar we found near the murder scene in Midtown.
As Mangione was being escorted into the courthouse by police officers this week, he yelled out to reporters that some unintelligible thing was “an insult to the American people.”
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania has both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in computer science.
Online speculation surrounding his motives has in large part painted him as a populist hero on a righteous crusade against the wealthy. His digital footprint, however, paints a complicated picture about his interests, which appeared to include fitness regimens and philosophy.