Suspected CEO Killer Luigi Mangione Driven by Hatred for Corporate America, Police Reveal

Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old from Maryland, was arrested this Monday in Pennsylvania facing charges related to firearms. He is also the prime suspect in the recent murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. According to law enforcement, Mangione was found with a manifesto that criticized the greed prevalent within the insurance industry.

Holding a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Mangione was detained after being spotted at a McDonald’s in Altoona, as reported by The New York Times. He faces multiple charges including weapons possession and forgery and is due for a court appearance in western Pennsylvania soon.

Joseph Kenny, the NYPD Chief of Detectives, revealed that Mangione had a 9mm handgun, which may have been a ghost gun assembled from various parts or produced with a 3D printer. This is the same type of weapon used to assassinate Thompson. Kenny also found a silencer and a manifesto that expressed a clear disdain for corporate America.

“It does seem he has some ill will toward corporate America,” Kenny stated.

A police source who reviewed the manifesto told CNN that Mangione confessed to the murder of Thompson in this document, claiming he acted independently and funded the operation himself.

“I do apologize for any strife or trauma,” Mangione wrote in the manifesto, “but it had to be done. These parasites had it coming.”

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch disclosed that Mangione also possessed a counterfeit New Jersey ID, which matched the one the suspected murderer used to register at a hostel in New York City ten days before Thompson was fatally shot in Manhattan in daylight, using a silencer-equipped firearm.

The crime scene included three bullet casings, marked with the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose”—phrases often used to describe tactics employed by the insurance industry to reject patient claims. UnitedHealth, being the largest private insurer in the country, has a reputation for denying more claims than any other company.

Mangione’s online activity varied widely, from endorsing conservative public figures like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson to giving high ratings on Goodreads for books such as Dr. Seuss’ environmental fable The Lorax and the writings of Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber.

“He had the courage to acknowledge that peaceful protest has led us nowhere and ultimately, he might be right,” Mangione controversially noted about Kaczynski, whom he referred to as “an extreme political revolutionary.”

“When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive,” he declared.