Ivy League graduate (26) is arrested in the Pennsylvania railroad town of Altoona over the shooting of United Healthcare chief executive Brian Thompson
Ivy League graduate is arrested in the Pennsylvania railroad town of Altoona over the shooting of United Healthcare chief executive Brian Thompson
“The officer quickly recognised the male as the suspect,” the deputy chief of Altoona police department, Derek Swope, reported on Monday night.Golden Globes 2025: Good day for Colin Farrell and Andrew Scott. Bad day Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan By Monday afternoon, his name was released: Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate of engineering raised in Maryland, with more recent addresses in San Francisco and Hawaii.
The cold poise of the shooting led to early speculation that it was carried out by a professional, contract killer. But that was quickly debunked as further evidence was released. The words “Deny”, “Delay” and “Depose”, interpreted by investigators as a reference to tactics used by healthcare companies to deny compensation to clients, were found etched into the shell casings left on the footpath.
For the family and colleagues of Thompson, who is survived by two sons and his wife, Paulette, the absence of public sympathy can only have made the past six days more painful and disorienting. It emerged that Thompson had received threats in the months before Wednesday’s shooting. He was Ivy League-educated, a privately educated high school senior class valedictorian whose speech was broadcast on all the main news networks on Monday night and, as had been observed when that first image was circulated, highly telegenic. His family are prominent in Maryland, with his grandfather a philanthropist, after amassing a fortune through the development of nursing homes and country clubs in the greater Baltimore area.
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