The man arrested in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson comes from a family with ties to the health care industry.
Luigi Mangione on Monday, five days after Mr. Thompson, 50, was shot and killed by a masked gunman as he walked alone to his company's annual investor conference at the New York Hilton in midtown Manhattan. , 26, was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
In Pennsylvania, where he remained in prison, Luigi Mangione was initially charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm, forgery, and providing false identification to police. By Monday evening, Manhattan prosecutors had added murder charges and he is expected to be extradited to New York.
Immediately after the shooting, police described the incident as a targeted attack. Ammunition found near Thompson's body had the words “delayed,” “rejected” and “discarded” written on it, a reference to words used to criticize the insurance industry. That's what it means.
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NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney said Luigi Mangione was in possession of a three-page handwritten note expressing “malice toward American businesses.”
Luigi Mangione is the scion of a wealthy real estate family from Maryland. His grandfather, Nicholas Mangione, who died in 2008, was a multimillionaire real estate developer and philanthropist.
The family patriarch, he started working at age 11 after his father's death, joined the Navy, worked as a contractor for 20 years, and then worked in nursing homes and hospitals, including the now-closed Fallston General Hospital in Harford County. built and owned. The Baltimore Banner reported.
Nicholas Mangione and his wife, Mary Mangione, also founded a nursing home and assisted living company called Lorient Health Services, which operates nine community-based facilities in Maryland.
According to Lorient's website, the company was “founded in 1977 by the same family that still leads the company today.”
The Mangione family has a long history of supporting hospitals in the Baltimore area, with particularly strong ties to Greater Baltimore Medical Center, where all 37 of the Mangione grandchildren, including Luigi Mangione, were born.
The next generation is continuing that tradition, according to a 2022 blog post on the hospital's website featuring a photo of the extended family.
“It becomes subconscious. I never thought about giving birth at GBMC,” Victoria Smith, one of Nicholas Mangione's grandchildren, said in a post.
The family has donated more than $1 million to the hospital over the years, and its high-risk maternity unit is named after Mangione, the Banner reported.
In addition to GBMC, the Mangione Family Foundation supports Kennedy Krieger Research Institute, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. The family's foundation previously held stock in MetLife, a New York insurance company that provides health insurance, according to fiscal year 2018 financial statements.
After Luigi Mangione's arrest on Monday, his cousin, Maryland Congressman Nino Mangione, posted a statement from his family on social media.
“Unfortunately, we cannot comment on the reports regarding Luigi Mangione. All we know is what we read in the media,” the family said in a statement.
The statement continued, “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi's arrest. We send our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and ask everyone to pray for everyone involved. We are devastated by this news.”
