Who is Luigi Mangione: What to know about the man charged with murder in United Healthcare CEO’s shooting death

The name of the suspect in connection with the murder has been named UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of his Manhattan hotel last Wednesday early.

Luigi Mangione, 26, was spotted eat a meal at McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning and was reported to police by a witness. That created a whirlwind investigation that culminated in him being charged with murder in New York and weapons charges in Pennsylvania.

He is currently being held in a Pennsylvania jail without bond.

Thompson was shot and killed outside a Manhattan hotel on December 4. It sparked a massive manhunt for a suspect who eluded police for nearly a week.

Here’s what we know about Mangionethe policeman said he committed the crime:

A tip from the public led police to Pennsylvania

On Monday, the police responded to the report from a McDonald’s employee in Altoona, Pennsylvania, who said they saw a man who resembled a person of interest in the case.

Mangione was eating at McDonald’s when an employee recognized him, police said.

Officers arrived at the restaurant and began questioning Mangione.

Police “asked the man if he had been to New York recently, and the man became quiet and began to shake,” according to a later criminal complaint filed against the 26-year-old.

“We didn’t think twice about it,” Altoona Police Officer Tyler Frye said of the encounter with Mangione. “We knew he was our guy.”

Officers arrested Mangione after he provided a fake car for identification, and a police search revealed he was in possession of a ghost gun matching the weapon believed to have been used in the assassination-style killing, officials said at a news conference Monday.

Mangione also had a gun silencer and several fake IDs, including a New Jersey ID that he NYPD believed to have been used by an attacker.

“He was cooperative at first. He’s not now,” Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said at a news conference Monday. “He was charged and transported and will be held safely pending further charges in New York.”

Those charges were filed Monday night.

Charges in Pennsylvania and New York

After his arrest, Mangione was indicted and charged with five felonies in Pennsylvania, including forgery, false identification and carrying a handgun without a license.

He made a brief appearance Monday in a Blair County, Pennsylvania, courtroom where he was informed of the charges against him and said he understood.

He has not entered a formal plea to the charges, officials said Monday.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro spoke Monday after Mangione’s arrest. He tore into people celebrating the gunman in the Manhattan shooting.

“He’s not a hero,” Shapiro said.

“Brian Thompson was a father of two children. He was a husband. And he was a friend to many,” Shapiro said. “And yes, he was the CEO of a health insurance company. In America, we don’t kill people in cold blood to settle political differences or express a point of view.”

Late Monday, he was charged with murder and other weapons charges in New York, it said New York Post.

The person of interest was not on anyone’s radar

Joseph Kenny, the NYPD’s chief of detectives, said police did not know Mangione’s name before Monday.

He was born and raised in Maryland and until recently lived in Honolulu, Hawaii. He also has ties to San Francisco.

Kenny added that police believe Mangione allegedly acted alone.

A three-page ‘manifesto’ revealed

Police said they found a three-page manifesto in Mangione’s possession when he was arrested, suggesting he had “bad will toward corporate America,” Kenny said at a news conference.

The handwritten document “speaks to his motivation and mindset,” Tisch said.

It reportedly said “these parasites caused it” and “I’m sorry for the altercation and the trauma, but it had to be done,” according to CNN, which cited a police official who saw the document.

He is currently in the custody of the Altoona Police Department.

Valedictorian at an all-boys private school and educated in the Ivy League

Mangione attended the Gilman School in Baltimore, a private all-boys school, where in 2016 he The The New York Times first time reported.

Tuition at the school is $37,690 per year.

Mangione gave a speech in which he described his class as “coming up with new ideas and challenging the world around them.”

The school’s headmaster, Henry PA Smyth, said in a statement: “This is deeply distressing news on top of an already appalling situation. Our hearts go out to all those affected.”

According to his apparent LinkedIn profile, Mangione holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

A Facebook profile that matches the name of the person you’re interested in offers a glimpse into their life, with photos of friends on the beach in Mexico, exploring the California coast, and going to soccer games.

Mangione comes from a prominent Baltimore Banner family reports.

His late grandfather was Nicholas Mangione Sr., a real estate developer with interests in country clubs, nursing homes and a radio station, while his late grandmother Mary was a patron of the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, the old Baltimore Opera Company and the Walters Art Museum.

Maryland State Representative Nino Mangione is a relative of the arrested man, the Banner reports.

An interested person gave the Unabomber’s manifesto four stars on Goodreads

Mangione appears to have left a positive review of the Unabomber’s manifesto online earlier this year, praising the killer as a “political revolutionary.”

An account with that name on the book review site Goodreads, which also matches photos of the suspect on other social networks, gave Ted KaczynskiBook a four-star review in January.

“Clearly written by a math prodigy. It reads like a series of lemmas on the issue of quality of life in the 21st century,” the review states.

“It’s easy to quickly and thoughtlessly write this off as a madman’s manifesto, to avoid confronting some of the unpleasant issues it identifies. But it is simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society have proven to be,” the review continues.

“He was a violent person — rightly imprisoned — who maimed innocent people. While these actions are usually characterized as those of a crazed Luddite, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary,” the review of the report under Mangione’s name continues.

Hundreds of hours of footage were combed through

Investigators sifted through hundreds of hours of video footage from multiple sources to find a key screenshot linking them to a person of interest, Kenny said at a news conference.

The NYPD quickly released footage of the suspect unmasked and smiling the day after Thompson was killed.

It turned out to be clear surveillance images of the person of interest smiling stemmed from a “flirtatious” moment with a worker at the hostel where he was believed to be staying.

“They had a moment of flirtation and he pulls it back and smiles and that one informal moment between two human beings remains in this moment the most significant clue to date in this whole case,” ex NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller told CBS News last week.

Over the weekend, police released a new image of a person of interest in the back of a taxi wearing a face mask.