More details have emerged about the campus life of Luigi Mangione, 26, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in New York City in a case that has captured the nation’s attention.
Described as a tech whiz — Mangione has said he taught himself to code in high school — he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with both a master’s and bachelor’s of science in engineering in 2020.
He faces a murder charge for allegedly shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week and reportedly plans to plead not guilty.
The Daily Pennsylvanian student newspaper reported that a “profile” of the alleged killer has begun to emerge, including that he co-founded a video game club and served as a TA as an undergrad. The student newspaper also reported:
The [criminal] complaint also alleges that, during a search of Mangione’s backpack, police officers found both a 3D-printed pistol and a 3D-printed black silencer.
Mangione was a computer and information science major and mathematics minor at Penn who also received a master’s degree in computer and information science from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, with a concentration in artificial intelligence. Several of the available classes for his computer and information science degrees would have involved 3D-printing instruction. …
While at the University, Mangione was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and founded Penn’s Game Research and Development Environment, also known as UPGRADE.
… Mangione was also a teaching assistant for CIS 121: “Data Structures and Algorithms” from January 2018 to May 2019, and led the class’ Recitation Committee.
Mangione appeared to be well known on campus, as evidenced by a 2019 post in the Penn Crushes Facebook group that tagged him. It read: “Hot damn. Are you single? You make us engineers have hope!”
“Despite all my best efforts … yup still single,” Mangione replied in the comments.
Mangione also spent time as a campus leader at Stanford University. The Stanford Daily student newspaper reported that Mangione “was employed as a head counselor for Stanford’s pre-collegiate studies program between May and September of 2019.”
The Daily also reported his LinkedIn profile stated Mangione “designed lesson plans and taught artificial intelligence to gifted high school students” and “led a 7-member residential staff” during the summer studies program at Stanford.
The Daily reviewed a spreadsheet from 2019 “that listed Mangione as a Head Counselor living in the Kappa Alpha house.”
“Mangione shared photos from the summer of 2019 on Facebook and Instagram that showed him posing with fellow counselors at various campus locations, including Lake Lagunita. The Facebook album was captioned ‘KAotic summers only,’ referring to the Kappa Alpha house. Both Facebook and Instagram deleted his profiles Monday,” the Daily reported.
Mangione has been described by a former classmate as a “super nice upperclassman,” ABC reported.
Mangione was valedictorian of his 2016 high school graduating class at the private, exclusive all-boys Gilman School in Baltimore, As The College Fix previously reported.
The Associated Press reported that, according to law enforcement, at the time of his arrest “Mangione was carrying a handwritten document expressing anger with what he called ‘parasitic’ health insurance companies and a disdain for corporate greed and power.”
Mangione also reportedly grappled with chronic back pain.
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