Social media profiles for Luigi Mangione include work in computer science.
A 26-year-old man identified as Luigi Mangione arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania has been identified as the person of interest in the Dec. 4 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to the New York Times. Mangione was arrested with what police have described as a “manifesto,” according to the Times, as well as a firearm described as a ghost gun, a weapon assembled from parts either purchased individually or sometimes 3D printed.
Mangione was arrested, roughly 400 miles west of New York City, on firearms charges but has not been charged with the death of Thompson, according to the Times. He was reportedly carrying “multiple” fake IDs.
The New York Times reports Mangione was the valedictorian at Gilman School, a private all-boys high school in Baltimore. The internet was also quick to dive into Mangione’s digital footprint, which presents a mix of political ideas that perhaps defy conventional left-right divides. Mangione’s X account lists him as studying “Computer Science @ Penn” and his LinkedIn lists his location as Honolulu, Hawaii. The University of Pennsylvania confirmed to the Times that Mangione graduated in 2020 with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering.
Mangione’s LinkedIn also lists him as being a data engineer at TrueCar Inc. in Santa Monica since 2020, with previous work as a teaching assistant in artificial intelligence at Stanford in the summer of 2019 and an internship at Firaxis Games in 2016 and 2017.
Reporter Jacob Silverman pointed out on X that Mangione’s banner image on that social media platform appears to show an X-ray.
