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Luigi MangioneThe suspect in the murder of the chief executive of the UnitedHealthcare health insurance company in New York until yesterday was an unknown promising young man from a wealthy family who attended an elite university and was fond of video games.

Now, A 26-year-old man has been charged in New York. for first-degree murder and three weapons charges in connection with the death of insurance company CEO Brian Thompson, and remains held in a maximum security cell in a prison in Pennsylvania (USA).

The young man who He was arrested yesterday at McDonald’s. this state, after six days of intensive police search, is also charged in Pennsylvania with five crimes related to possession of weapons and forgery of documents.

The case has attracted significant public attention, in part because of the details that have come to light about Mangione’s life, but also because of his extensive digital footprint, which sheds light on his tastes and opinions.

Rich family and elite education

It is currently known that Mangione was born and raised in Maryland in rich family owner of several country music clubs, medical centers and real estate companies, according to CBSNews.

Thus, his paternal grandparents, Nicholas and Mary, founded the nursing home company Lorien Health Systems, where the suspect worked temporarily as a volunteer, and ran WCBM, a conservative radio station in Batlimore.

According to cnnHer family also manages a family foundation with assets of nearly $4.5 million and has been a longtime private and religious benefactor of Loyola University Maryland.

The defendant is also the cousin of a Republican congressman. Nino Mangione.

Luigi Mangione’s political ideology is somewhat more ambiguous: on his social media he has followed public and controversial figures such as podcaster Joe Rogan, anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Edward Snowden.

On his Goodreads account, an app where users rate and review books, he praised the book by American terrorist Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the “Unabomber,” whom he called “an extreme political revolutionary.”

Regarding the Unabomber manifesto, he noted: “When all forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like their methods, but to look at things from their point of view is not terrorism, but war and revolution.”

Long before these events, Mangione was a top-of-his-class student at the prestigious Gilman School in Baltimore, and in 2020 he graduated with a computer science degree with a math major from the University of Pennsylvania, one of the exclusive Ivies. League”.

There he was a member of Etta Kappa Nu, an academic fraternity that admits a very limited number of students each year, according to the New York Times.

Some back problems that prevented him from leading a normal life

Mangione’s last known address was Hawaii, where he lived for several months, first in the Surfbreak co-living space and then in an apartment.

RJ Martin, founder of Surfbreak, told the New York Times that Mangione has “back problems” and that his spine has become “disrupted,” preventing him from leading a normal life.

His back pain worsened after a surfing incident, and Mangione returned to the east coast in 2023 to undergo surgery. At some point, she stopped responding to Martin’s messages.

In recent months, Mangione has disappeared from the lives of his family and friends, some of whom have left him messages on social media: “No one has heard from you in months and apparently your family is looking for you,” one post said, according to cnn.

Most of his loved ones were unaware of his whereabouts until yesterday, when police discovered he was the prime suspect in the murder of Brian Thompson.

EFE