Luigi Mangione
Luigi Mangione | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1999 (age 25–26) |
| Occupation | software developer |
| Known for | alleged to have assassinate a pharmacuetical CEO |
Luigi Mangione is a wealthy American who is suspected of assassinating Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.[1]
Reporters have tried to explain the path that lead a young man, from a privileged background, in Baltimore, Maryland, to take such a wild step as assassination.[1]
The masked killer used a pistol with a silencer, like a movie assassin, and Mangione was captured with a silenced pistol.[1]
Early life[edit]
Mangione attended private prep schools, including the Gilman School.[1] He was his school's valedictorian, at graduation, in 2016. His family's wealth was based in real estate.
Some of his fellow students described him as the smartest student in their year.[1] He had developed a keen interest in Computer Science, and even before he entered University Mangione had developed a popular phone app. Mangione was also described as showing competence in multiple sport activities.
Mangione did well at the University of Pennsylvania, where he joined the Eta Kappa Nu fraternity.[1]
Following graduation Mangione worked for Truecar from his graduation, until sometime in 2022 or 2023.[1] He then started working remotely, from Hawaii, and staying a coop beachhouse intended for remote workers, called Surfbreak. It was at Surbreak that friends and acquaintances noticed how he was experiencing chronic back pain.
In January 2024, Mangione left an online review of a book about Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, on the site Good reads.[1] That book contained the text of the long, dense, manifesto where Kazinski justified his violent acts. The New York Times quoted a passage from Mantione's review:
- “It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless 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.”[1]
Six months of puzzling character change[edit]
Mangione suddenly broke off contact with his friends and family.[1] The New York Times characterized this breach as inexplicable and told readers investigators would try to figure out what Mangione had been doing during the six months leading up to the attack, in order to determine his motives.
The assassination[edit]
Mangione was wearing a face mask when he approached Thompson, and shot him at close range.[1] He left behind a three page manifesto where he called the assassination a "symbolic takedown".
After examining Mangione's weapon and silencer law enforcement officials announced they were not manufactered at a gun plant, rather they had been printed on a 3d printer.[2] 3d printed weapons do not come with a serial number, and are regarded as essentially untraceable. Gun experts identify Mangione's ghost gun as a variant of a glock 19 pistol, whose design was made available to 3d gunsmiths in 2021.[3]
Indictment[edit]
Mangione was indicted on April 17, 2025.[4] The indictment follows an explicit instruction from Attorney General Pam Bondi that prosecutors should charge him and seek the death penalty.[5][6]
References[edit]
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Corey Kilgannon; Mike Baker; Luke Broadwater; Shawn Hubler (2024-12-10). "Luigi Mangione, Suspect in CEO Killing, Withdrew From a Life of Privilege and Promise". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2024-12-10. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
With his credentials and connections, he could have ended up one day as an entrepreneur or the chief executive of one of his family’s thriving businesses. Instead, investigators suspect, he took a different path.
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Corey Kilgannon (2024-12-11). "Ghost Gun Taken From Luigi Mangione Was Fully Homemade, Officials Say". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
The police officers in Pennsylvania who on Monday arrested the man who has now been charged in the killing, Luigi Mangione, 26, said that he was found with a black pistol and a suppressor, often called a silencer. Both, the authorities said, had been fabricated with a 3-D printer, a device that sculpts a physical object from a digital model.
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Andy Greenberg (2024-12-11). "The 'Ghost Gun' Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows Just How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come". WIRED magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
The FMDA 19.2, released in 2021, is a relatively old model by 3D-printed gun standards, says one gunsmith who goes by the first name John and the online handle Mr. Snow Makes. But it’s one of the most well-known and well-tested printable ghost gun designs, he says. The Chairmanwon V1 remix that police say Mangione had in his possession when he was arrested in a Altoona, Pennsylvania McDonald’s varies from that original FMDA 19.2 design only in that another amateur gunsmith, who goes by the pseudonym Chairmanwon, added a different texture to the gun’s grip.
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Rachel Goodman (2025-04-21). "Luigi Mangione indicted on federal charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO". Global News. Archived from the original on 2025-04-22. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
Luigi Mangione was indicted on Thursday on federal charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a major step in the prosecution’s pursuit of the death penalty.
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Michelle Butterfield (2025-04-01). "Prosecutors ordered to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione". Global News]]. Archived from the original on 2025-04-08. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, faces separate federal and state murder charges for the killing, which rattled the business community while galvanizing health insurance critics.
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"Attorney General Pamela Bondi Directs Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione". United States Department of Justice. 2025-04-01. Archived from the original on 2025-04-09. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
'Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America. After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.'
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