Luigi Mangione: Suspect in UHC CEO Murder Arrest “`
Authorities have identified Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from Towson, Maryland, as the suspect arrested in connection with last week’s killing.
Law enforcement apprehended Mangione in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on December 9th after a McDonald’s employee recognized him and alerted the authorities.
Police discovered Mangione possessed a counterfeit New Jersey ID matching the one used by the suspect to register at an Upper West Side Manhattan hostel ten days prior to the shooting. They also recovered a firearm resembling the murder weapon, a silencer, and a three-page handwritten manifesto. Investigators believe the manifesto, while its contents remain undisclosed, reveals Mangione’s motives and reportedly criticizes healthcare corporations for prioritizing profits over patient care.
“We don’t believe the document contains specific threats against others, but it appears he harbors animosity toward corporate America,” stated NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
Mangione faces firearm charges and other offenses in Pennsylvania but hasn’t been formally charged in connection with Thompson’s death on December 4th.
The NYPD characterized the shooting of 50-year-old Brian Thompson as a “premeditated, preplanned targeted attack.” Thompson was shot multiple times—including in the back and right calf—outside the New York Hilton Midtown while en route to his company’s annual investor conference. The masked shooter escaped on foot and later cycled into Central Park. Police later recovered a backpack in Central Park believed to belong to the gunman; it contained Monopoly money. Shell casings found at the scene were inscribed with “deny,” “delay,” and “depose”—a cryptic message fueling speculation about the shooter’s motivations.
Here’s what we know about Mangione.
His Education at the University of Pennsylvania
Mangione graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science, according to a university spokesperson. Authorities confirmed the suspect’s attendance at the Pennsylvania institution.
During his time at Penn, Mangione served as a teaching assistant, head of the recitation committee, and co-founded the university’s Game Research And Development Environment club, per his LinkedIn profile. A Penn Engineering publication quotes him stating he chose computer science to pursue video game development. His social media suggests membership in the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
He also worked as a head counselor in the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Program from May to September 2019.
In 2016, he graduated from Gilman School, an all-boys private high school in the Baltimore area, where he wrestled and was valedictorian.
His Career as a Data Engineer
Mangione held various tech positions and internships since high school. His LinkedIn profile shows employment as a data engineer for TrueCar, a car shopping website, since November 2020. In high school, he co-founded and led programming for AppRoar Studios, a Baltimore gaming app development company. He also completed a robotics research internship at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and a UI programming internship at Firaxis Games, a Baltimore-based video game developer.
Investigators stated his last known residence was in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mangione has no prior criminal record in New York. He allegedly traveled to New York City by bus in late November and later reached Altoona via Greyhound from Philadelphia.
Social Media Insights into His Views and Habits
Social media profiles seemingly belonging to Mangione indicate subscriptions to anti-capitalist movements and past admiration for Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
Mangione wrote on Goodreads that Kaczynski’s “Industrial Society and Its Future” offered insightful predictions about modern society, while condemning the Unabomber’s violence. The review stated: “It’s easy to quickly and thoughtlessly write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.”
In the months before the attack, Mangione frequently posted on X about the negative health effects of modern technology. He shared content from wellness and self-improvement figures like neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss. Mangione expressed concern about the negative health consequences of modern life, often reposting material from writers such as Michael Pollan and Jonathan Haidt.