A former high school classmate of the person of interest identified and detained Monday in the apparent assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson spoke to The Gateway Pundit on Monday, expressing incredulity over the incident.
Authorities identified Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old former Ivy League student at UPenn, as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, The Gateway Pundit reported Monday.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, new details about the arrestee and his family have come to light.
Mangioni’s family owns multiple businesses in Baltimore City or Baltimore County, including Hayfields Country Club in Cockeysville and a radio station.
He is also a cousin of Republican State Delegate Nino Mangione, who has been in office since 2019.
One source in Baltimore County who is indirectly familiar with the possible shooter described him as “super smart” and said the family is “very well off.” Some locals have rumored that Luigi Mangione had a bad injury and was a disgruntled client of United Healthcare or that he had a close family member who was wronged by the healthcare system. “But who knows,” said the local.
Person of Interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Was Born and Raised in Maryland and Comes From Well Known Family, Related to Maryland State Lawmaker
Mangioni was also valedictorian of his high school class at Gilman School in 2016. Gilman School, an all-boys private country day school on the outskirts of Baltimore, addressed the incident in a letter to the community.
Freddie Leatherbury, a former classmate of Mangioni at Gilman, told The Gateway Pundit that his reaction to Mangioni’s arrest was “disbelief.”
“He was such a good kid; he was well-studied and well-read, smart, athletic, socially well-adjusted, and had a lot of good friends,” Leatherburry added. “Nothing I knew about him previously really correlated to what I heard about him. I was so surprised.”
Leatherbury noted that the two hadn’t seen each other in about eight years, adding, “We were friendly but just weren’t in the same circle of friends, so after high school graduation, I never saw him.” Still, he follows Mangioni’s Instagram page and looked at it earlier on Monday “out of curiosity” and found that he hadn’t posted anything since 2021.
It is still unclear what drove Mangioni to allegedly commit murder.
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, police found a manifesto where he ranted against the healthcare industry on Mangione after he was found at a McDonald’s.
Law enforcement found at least four fake IDs on Mangione, a gun with a silencer, and a two-and-a-half-page handwritten manifesto.
“These parasites had it coming,” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done,” the manifesto read, according to a police official who has seen the document CNN reports.
Mangione was discovered to be an anti-capitalist who ranted about the healthcare industry’s massive profits and believes in climate change.
Perhaps he was indoctrinated and radicalized by his college professors at the University of Pennsylvania.
