Who is Luigi Mangione?
He is an avid reader with 295 books listed on Goodreads.
Academically, he holds both a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Additionally, he gained recognition as the valedictorian at Gilman School in Baltimore, showcasing his academic excellence.
Mangione graduated from the elite Gilman School, a private high school in Baltimore, at the top of his class. Video of his graduation ceremony shows he delivered the commencement speech, where he thanked his parents and his classmates’ parents for making the investment.
His work includes contributions to machine learning and robotics, as evidenced by projects on GitHub.
Luigi Nicholas Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Monday morning after a McDonald’s customer and employee spotted him and thought he matched the suspect on a wanted poster.
Police responded to the location for reports of a person matching the description of the man wanted for questioning in Thompson’s murder, but Altoona police said they initially took him into custody on unrelated charges.
When officers approached, they immediately recognized him, even though he was wearing a medical mask, according to court documents. However, he allegedly handed over a fake ID and gave a phony name. When police asked if he’d recently been to New York, Mangione allegedly “became quiet and started to shake.”
High-level law enforcement sources told Fox News and Fox News Digital that he had a “ghost gun” similar to the suspected murder weapon, a suppressor and a fake ID in his possession when taken into custody. The Associated Press also reported he had writings critical of the healthcare industry.
“Luigi Mangione’s suspected involvement in this case is deeply distressing news on top of an already awful situation,” a spokesperson told Fox News. “Our hearts go out to everyone affected. Here on campus, our focus will remain on caring for and educating our students.”
He was a periodic poster on Goodreads, the literature-focused social media site, where he wrote a review for a book by the Unabomber Ted Kaczysnki.
“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,” he wrote. “But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.”
Writing about Kaczynski’s “Industrial Society and Its Future,” he quoted another online “take that [he] found interesting.”
“When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive,” he wrote. “You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it’s not terrorism, it’s war and revolution.”
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told Fox News over the weekend that it was too soon to allege a motive but acknowledged that the suspect did leave potential clues behind.
“We’re not going to commit to a motive right now, but, you know, obviously when you look at the writing, you look at the victim’s employment, you know, it could possibly be a disgruntled employee or a disgruntled client, but we’re not we’re not ruling that out, but we certainly not committing to it at this time,” Kenny said.
