The suspect in the shooting death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO is Luigi Mangione, 26, who attended the University of Pennsylvania and was valedictorian of his 2016 high school class.
Mangione was detained on Monday in Altoona, Penn., on local charges, and has yet to be charged in connection to the CEO’s assassination, according to various news reports.
Mangione is described by the New York Post as a “tech whiz” who has posted online he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with both a master’s and bachelor’s of science in engineering.
As an undergrad, he helped lead a student club focused on developing video games, according to a December 2018 post from Penn News that also reported Mangione said he taught himself how to code while in high school.
“Mangione was valedictorian of his 2016 high school graduating class at the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he played soccer, according to online sites. High school tuition at the all-boys school is nearly $40,000 a year,” the Post reported.
Mangione is the person of interest in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was gunned down just outside a midtown Manhattan skyrise last week.
The suspect “apparently hated the medical community because of how it treated his sick relative,” law-enforcement sources told the Post.
As of Monday afternoon, Mangione’s X account was still public. Over the last six month he’s posted or reposted on topics such as concerns over global food scarcity, problems with legacy media, and the ultra-left progression of “new atheists.”
On Jan. 24 he posted: “I used to get bummed in math class when learning theorems: ‘All the low-hanging fruit has been solved before I was born! If I was alive at the time of Pythagoras I could’ve easily derived the Pythagorean theorem and etched my place in history!’ But now I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would’ve had access to.”
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IMAGE: Luigi Mangione X account
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