The suspect police are investigating in the murder of a United Healthcare CEO is an Ivy League graduate software engineer from a prominent Baltimore family who appears to have favorably reviewed the Unabomber’s manifesto on a book website. .
Luigi Mangione, 26, was identified by New York police on Monday as a “person of interest” in last week’s shooting death of CEO Brian Thompson.
family: The suspect is the grandson of prominent Baltimore real estate developer Nicholas Mangione and his wife, philanthropist Mary C. Mangione, who died last year. The Mangione family owns the Maryland nursing home chain Lorient Health Systems, where Luigi volunteered in 2014, according to his LinkedIn page.
education: Mr. Mangione graduated from Gilman School, a prestigious all-boys school known as one of the toughest private schools in Baltimore, where he was valedictorian in 2016.
He also attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2020 with master’s and bachelor’s degrees in computer science and a minor in mathematics, a university spokesperson told CNN. Mr. Mangione was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, according to photos on social media.
work: After graduating, Mangione worked as a software engineer at online car sales company TrueCar, according to his LinkedIn page. His most recent speech was in Hawaii, NYPD officials said.
Mangione is registered to vote at his family’s address in Cockeysville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, and is registered as unaffiliated with a political party, according to the state’s voter registration search website. He is a cousin of Maryland State Representative Nino Mangione (R). Confirmed to local media.
Private security guards were at the golf club blocking the family from entering their home on Monday afternoon.
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