Ivy League Graduate Taken into Custody in Connection with UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination
A 26-year-old software engineer, Luigi Mangione, was taken into custody at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in connection with the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. A witness recognized Mangione from images of the suspect distributed by police, and he was found to be in possession of a gun and silencer similar to those used in the shooting.
Mangione, an Ivy League graduate, was working on a laptop in the Altoona fast food location when he was taken into custody. Surveillance footage caught the person of interest using a laptop in a New York McDonald’s location before the Wednesday shooting, and the eyebrows matched.
The police source stated that a witness notified police after recognizing the man’s face from wanted posters around 9:15 a.m. Mangione was taken to the Altoona Police Department, where he was arrested on unrelated charges.
NYPD officials arrived at the department several hours after Mangione was taken into custody. Mangione, who is from Towson, MD, was valedictorian of his Baltimore prep school class in 2016 and graduated with a Master’s degree in engineering and computer science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mangione is a software developer who has worked for TrueCar Inc. for the last four years. Online activity showed Mangione subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes and expressed disdain for the state of health care in the U.S. His social media also indicates that he currently resides in Hawaii.
Thompson was shot three times outside the Hilton Midtown in New York City. The suspect in the shooting was last seen at Port Authority bus station in Upper Manhattan. Mangione has not yet been formally named by law enforcement as Thompson’s shooter.
