On Monday, December 10, police finally arrested Luigi Mangione in the brazen homicide of United Health Care’s CEO Brian Thompson, shocking his wealthy parents, who said they had been searching for him and only learned of his arrest afterward.
As per the latest developments on the arrest, Luigi Mangione has been charged in Manhatten with manslaughter, three firearm charges, and forgery.
Although his parents, Louis and Kathleen Zannino Mangione, have not made any statement themselves, Republican Maryland House of Delegates member Nino Mangione spoke on behalf of the Mangione family, saying,
Unfortunately, we cannot comment on news reports regarding Luigi Mangione. We only know what we have read in the media. Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest. We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved.
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The Mangione family is a prominent family from Maryland. Nick Mangione, who passed away in 2008, was Luigi’s grandfather and the one behind the Turf Valley Resort project in Ellicott City.
In addition, the Mangione family also owns Hayfields Country Club north of Baltimore, the nursing home company Lorien Health Services, and the radio station WCBM-AM.
As per the 2003 Washington Post report, Nick Mangione had five sons, including Louis, the father of Luigi, and he prepared them to manage the family business.
So, it is evident that Luigi’s father manages the family business while his mother, Kathleen, owns a boutique travel company, KZM Boutique Travel, specializing in the Mediterranean. As per her company’s official website, she is a proud Italian-American with dual citizenship.
Besides Luigi, his parents also have a daughter, Maria Santa Mangione, a respected doctor who graduated from Vanderbilt Medical School in 2021 and now works as a medical resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Mangione parents sent Luigi to Gilman School, an Ivy League institute that costs almost $40k per year!
To everyone’s surprise, the 26-year-old homicide suspect Luigi Mangione is a Gilman School graduate, an elite prep school in Baltimore.
It’s the same school that sportswriter Frank Deford and former Arizona Governor Fife Symington attended.
As an Ivy League school, Gilman’s current annual fee for high schoolers is almost $40,000. Given the prestige and social status of the Mangione family, Luigi attended the private school and graduated as valedictorian in 2016.
Later, he went to the University of Pennsylvania for his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering, with computer science as his major.
After completing his formal education, he interned at Firaxis Games in Sparks, MD, and co-founded AppRoar Studios, a start-up gaming studio.
🚨🇺🇸 Voici Luigi Mangione, l'assassin du PDG d'une compagnie d'assurance santé. Il a été arrêté et portait un manifeste énumérant ses griefs contre l'industrie de l'assurance. Très doué, il a fréquenté une université prestigieuse. pic.twitter.com/WwBTSa3xg9
— RDC Libre (@GKBroklyn) December 9, 2024
Furthermore, as per reports, Luigi Mangione was employed as a head counselor in the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Program in 2019.
Following Luigi’s arrest, his classmate, Aaron Cranston, described Mangione as a smart and ambitious student. He also stated that he and his friends got a message earlier this year from Mangione’s family that they were trying to track Luigi down.
Luigi had not contacted his parents or anyone in the family for several months. So, it appears his parents had no clue what Luigi was up to, including the assassination of Brian Thompson.
Meanwhile, Gilman Headmaster Henry P. A. Smyth stated that the news was “deeply distressing” and said, “our hearts go out to everyone affected.“
Likewise, R.J. Martin, the founder of a co-living community in Honolulu, stated that he met Luigi in 2022 and described him as a smart, accomplished engineer who moved to Honolulu to work remotely.
Police arrested Luigi Margione from a local McDonald’s in Altoona!
Following the assassination of the United Health Care CEO, police had been continuously searching for his whereabouts, and Altoona police officers finally arrested him after they got a tip from a local McDonald’s employee.
At the time of the arrest, Luigi Mangione was wearing a blue medical mask at a table with a laptop. They arrested him there and took him to Altoona Police Station and found a black, 3D-printed firearm and a black silencer in his backpack.
Moreover, they also found a 262-word hand-written manifesto containing passages like, “These parasites had it coming” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.“
BREAKING: Luigi Mangione, 26, arrested for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly wrote in a manifesto, “These parasites had it coming” and, “It had to be done.” Mangione is a UPenn graduate from a wealthy family. pic.twitter.com/OVBkSdk6rG
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 9, 2024
The writer of the manifesto also appears to take responsibility for the homicide, citing he wasn’t working with anyone.
It condemns the healthcare companies and notes that UnitedHealthcare’s market has been increasing, but American life expectancy has not.
He writes the companies “continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.“
