[The suspect police are questioning in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is an Ivy League graduate software engineer from a prominent Baltimore family who appears to have favorably reviewed the manifesto of Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, on a book website.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was identified by New York police Monday as a “strong person of interest” in the shooting of CEO Brian Thompson last week. Mangione has ties to at least three states – Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and Maryland – and has no history of arrests in New York City, police said.
Mangione graduated from the prestigious Gilman School, an all-boys school that is known as one of Baltimore’s toniest private schools, and was the high school valedictorian in 2016. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 2020 with a master’s and bachelor’s degree in computer science and a minor in mathematics.
Mangione is registered to vote at his family’s address in Cockeysville, Maryland, a Baltimore suburb, and is registered as unaffiliated with a political party, according to the state’s voter registration lookup website. He is the cousin of Maryland State Delegate Nino Mangione, a Republican, the state lawmaker’s office confirmed to local media.
Private security guards were blocking access to the family’s house on a golf club Monday afternoon. Police said Monday that when officers detained Mangione, he was carrying a multipage document that expressed “ill will toward corporate America.”
The document stated “these parasites had it coming,” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done,” a police official told CNN. It also said that Mangione acted alone and that the attack was self-funded.
A Goodreads profile that appears to belong to Mangione shows that earlier this year, he reported having read the 1995 antitechnology manifesto written by the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, the infamous domestic terrorist and mathematician known for sending deadly bombs through the mail.
In his review of the book, Mangione wrote that Kaczynski was a “violent individual – rightfully imprisoned – who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”
Mangione’s Goodreads profile listed him as reading or wanting to read nearly 300 books, including a book about mental illness, a biography of the creator of the atomic bomb and Michael Pollan’s popular book on the science of psychedelics.
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