Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old identified as a significant person of interest in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was formally charged with murder in New York on Monday. Mangione was apprehended in Pennsylvania, where authorities discovered a three-page manifesto that provided insights into the alleged crime.
According to court records, Mangione faces charges of murder, three counts related to weapons possession, and one count of forgery in Manhattan state court, in addition to charges in Pennsylvania. NYPD Chief Detective Joseph Kenny confirmed that Mangione will be extradited to New York to face these charges.
An internal NYPD report, obtained by The New York Times and CNN, detailed the manifesto found on Mangione at the time of his arrest. The document indicated that Mangione viewed the targeted killing of the company’s CEO as a symbolic act against alleged corruption and power dynamics within the organization. He described himself as the first to confront these issues with brutal honesty.
The NYPD expressed concerns that Mangione might be seen as a martyr and an example to follow, noting that he likely perceives himself as a hero, according to The Times.
Mangione, originally from Maryland, was last known to reside in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has no prior arrest history in New York or elsewhere in the United States. Police believe he may have attended college in Pennsylvania.
Social media profiles attributed to Mangione indicate that he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer and information science in 2020. He was also the valedictorian at the Gilman School, a private K-12 institution in Maryland, in 2016.
The New York Times reported that Mangione delivered a valedictory speech at his high school graduation, emphasizing his class’s innovative ideas and challenges to the status quo.
A LinkedIn profile believed to belong to Mangione lists internships at the Johns Hopkins Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics and Firaxis Games. He later worked as an engineer for TrueCar, a California-based car shopping website, where he was employed for four years. Additionally, The Times noted that Mangione served as a counselor in the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Program in 2019.