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Luigi Nicholas Mangione, the whiz kid Ivy League-educated high school valedictorian accused of the execution-style murder of the CEO of one of the nation's largest healthcare providers, may have spiraled out of control after traumatic back surgery. The procedure, which allegedly left Mangione in significant physical and emotional distress, may have contributed to his deteriorating mental state, a factor authorities are considering as part of their investigation. New York prosecutors have formally accused 26-year-old Mangione, a native of Towson, Maryland, of the fatal shooting of United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson. The incident occurred outside the New York Hilton in midtown...

The arrest of Luigi Mangione in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO has left friends, family, and acquaintances grappling with shock and disbelief. As investigators piece together the timeline leading to his arrest, new details have emerged about his life in the months preceding his disappearance and alleged crime. Mangione, a 28-year-old former computer science student from Maryland. He was described by those who knew him as intelligent, athletic, and socially well-adjusted. However, the trajectory of his life appeared to change drastically earlier this year following back surgery to address chronic pain caused by a pinched nerve, far-left HuffPost...

Police found a manifest on the person of interest nabbed at a McDonald’s in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. Ex-Ivy League student Luigi Mangione, 26, was taken into custody in Altoona, Pennsylvania after customers in a McDonald’s recognized him and tipped off local law enforcement. Law enforcement found at least four fake IDs on Mangione, a gun with a silencer and a manifesto. According to The New York Post, Luigi Mangione’s manifesto ranted against the healthcare industry. “These parasites had it coming” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to...

Luigi Mangione, the suspect arrested in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, fell out of touch with some of his friends and family earlier this year, according to multiple media reports. The loss in contact seemed to align with a back surgery Mangione underwent to treat chronic pain linked to a pinched nerve. R.J. Martin, the founder of a co-living space in Hawaii called Surfbreak, told the Honolulu Civil Beat that Mangione lived in the community, near Honolulu’s Ala Moana Beach Park, for six months in 2022.

Mangione referred to Ted Kaczynski’s actions as those of a “political revolutionary” rather than a lunatic, chillingly suggesting that violence might sometimes be necessary to “survive.” A former high school classmate of the person of interest identified and detained Monday in the apparent assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson spoke to The Gateway Pundit on Monday, expressing incredulity over the incident. Authorities identified Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old former Ivy League student at UPenn, as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, The Gateway Pundit reported Monday. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, new details...

A new report from CNN has revealed that the suspected shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione, told a Pennsylvania judge during his arraignment on weapons charges that $8,000 in USD and $2,000 in foreign currency was planted on him. While standing before a judge at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, the judge read the entire criminal complaint against Mangione after he noted that no one had read the complaint to him since he was arrested. While arguing why Mangione should be denied bail, prosecutors stated that police found $8,000 in US cash and $2,000 in foreign...

Vox Media is ending its deal to distribute former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz’s podcast and YouTube show after the journalist made a slew of explosive comments about the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a source close to the situation confirmed. Semafor scribe Max Tani, who first reported the news, revealed late Sunday that the controversial tech columnist had a short-term partnership that is set to expire at the beginning of the year. Lorenz took to social media on Monday ripping the report as “100% false,” claiming media reporters “lie” about her as she vowed to discuss the situation...

The suspect in the death of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been named as Luigi Mangione. Mangione, 26, is being held after the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot dead on the streets of Manhattan after his arrest Monday morning. He was detained at McDonald’s in Pennsylvania around 9am ET on firearm charges and is said to have been found with a 'ghost gun' that may have been made using a 3D printer. Mangione is originally from Towson, Maryland, and is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student who attended a $40,000-a-year Baltimore private school. The musclebound suspect has ties to San Francisco,...

The man detained by police in Pennsylvania in connection with the shock slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been identified as Luigi Mangione. Mangione, 26, is an 'anti-capitalist' Ivy League graduate. He was taken into custody after a McDonald's employee in Altoona, around 100 miles east of Pittsburgh, believed they recognized him as the gunman. He reportedly had a 3D-printed ghost gun similar to the one used in the Wednesday morning murder, along with a gun silencer, a manifesto, and four fake IDs when he was arrested by cops. Mangione has been arrested on firearms charges. As of Monday...

A person of interest has been nabbed in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was coldly executed in a targeted attack in front of a Manhattan hotel this week, The Post has learned. The man was picked up in Altoona, Pa., using a fake ID, sources said. The bust came amid a massive manhunt for the masked shooter who laid in wait outside the Hilton on Sixth Avenue where Thompson, 50, was set to speak at an investor’s conference Wednesday morning. The chillingly efficient gunman snuck behind Thompson on the sidewalk, pulled out what appeared to be...

A man in the Altoona, Pennsylvania, area is being questioned Monday in connection with last week's UnitedHealthcare CEO killing in Manhattan, in part because he was found with a gun similar to the one used in the shooting, according to two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. The sources say it is too soon to determine if his case is connected to the death of Brian Thompson, but they are investigating it as a potentially significant development. According to the sources, customers at a local McDonald's thought he looked suspicious and called police. Arriving officers noticed a fake...

New photos of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's alleged killer have been released by the NYPD, as the hunt for the assassin enters its fifth day. The alleged killer can be seen in the back of a cab as NYPD investigator's search remains ongoing. Earlier this week, a backpack found by officers in the hunt for Thompson's killer did not contain the murder weapon, according to reports. Authorities looking for the individual responsible for gunning down Thompson in the early hours of Wednesday morning found the backpack inside Central Park on Friday. Sources have since told Bloomberg and NBC News that...

NYPD officers discovered stacks of Monopoly money in the backpack of the suspect accused of shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare during a high-profile conference in Manhattan. Authorities are still piecing together the motive behind the attack, but the peculiar find has raised more questions than answers. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the New York Police Department discovered a backpack in Central Park believed to belong to the suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Now, authorities have revealed the contents inside the backpack. According to NYPD officials, a Tommy Hilfiger jacket and Monopoly money were found inside...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicated to reporters Saturday that the UnitedHealth CEO’s shooter has been identified after a days-long ongoing manhunt. However, he declined to say whether or not they have the suspect’s name, stating that he doesn’t want to tip off “the person we are seeking.” “We do not want to give him an upper hand at all,” Adams said. The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday morning that Brian Thompson was murdered outside of the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. He arrived before 7 am for a conference when he was shot at multiple times by a...

America's top internet sleuths have refused to help law enforcement officials track down the assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The 50-year-old father-of-two was gunned down earlier this week, with the footage of his assassination circulating on social media amidst an ongoing manhunt for his killer. Typically this type of high-profile violent crime sets platforms including TikTok and X alight with buzz, with amateur internet sleuths hunting to root out the perpetrator. But many armchair detectives have decided to keep schtum, even as eerie details filtered out earlier this week including a hidden message being left on shell casings at...

A controversial AI program used to deny elderly people health coverage is now at the center of questions about the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. ……. UnitedHealthcare became the largest denier of insurance plans in 2023, dismissing one in every three claims. It has now emerged that during the years before that, the company implemented AI software that had a 90 percent denial rate. A lawsuit has claimed the software led to the deaths of at least two men who were elderly patients denied post care following a stroke and fall. UnitedHealthcare is said to have launched the nH Predict...

Newly released images of the smiling suspect in the brutal assassination of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson have sparked wild claims online - including that he looks like two well-known movie stars. A disturbing 'hot assassin' trend is also now spreading on social media with some ghoulish users swooning over the killer who was seen grinning at a hostel in New York. The images were captured before the masked assassin brutally gunned down Mr Thompson, a 50-year-old father-of-two, outside the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday morning. Reacting to the pictures released by NYPD yesterday, one user wrote: 'Ok is it...

Following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, some far-left journalists and social media users were quick to offer celebratory, mocking or sneering reactions to his shocking death. Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz was among these voices, having shared multiple posts appearing to at least understand the killing while suggesting other health insurance executives should be targeted. "And people wonder why we want these executives dead," Lorenz wrote, referencing Thompson’s death in a Bluesky post with a report about Blue Cross Blue Shield no longer covering anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries....

The author of a book tied to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson refused to address the killer's apparent tribute to his tome when contacted by DailyMail.com. Author Jay M. Feinman responded 'no comment' when asked for his take on bullet casings left at the scene of Thompson's shooting outside Manhattan's Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, which were scrawled with 'depose', 'deny' and 'defend.' The message is eerily similar to Feinman's 2010 book 'Delay, Deny, Defend', which details 'why insurance companies don't pay claims and what you can do about it.' Critics allege the tactic is used by insurance companies...

A sick tribute appeared outside the New York City hotel where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down by an assassin on Wednesday. A balloon with a sign taped to it reading 'CEO DOWN' over the image of a smiling star and party poppers was found outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan after Thompson, 50, was gunned down there Wednesday morning. The balloon was spotted as many Americans have joked about the CEO's death due to his company's track record of rejecting medical claims. The same image on the balloon was also shared on former Washington Post reporter Taylor...