Luigi Mangione: What We Know About Person Of Interest In CEO Death

MIDTOWN, NY — On Monday afternoon, the NYPD named Maryland native Luigi Mangione a person of interest in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was shot last Wednesday morning in Midtown.

Mangione has been charged with five crimes in Blair County, Pennsylvania.

Charges include: firearms not to be carried without a license, forgery, tampering with records, false identification to law enforcement, and possessing an instrument of a crime. He was arraigned on Monday. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 23, court records show.

Mangione, 26, was at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, when an employee called the police after recognizing him from the photos the NYPD released last week, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

"At this time, he is believed to be our person of interest in the brazen, targeted murder of Brian Thompson," Tisch said at a press conference Monday afternoon. She said that Mangione had on him a handwritten manifesto, a gun, and fake ID cards that matched the one he used to stay in a hostel on the Upper West Side. "NYPD detectives are en route to Pennsylvania as we speak."

So, here's what we know about Mangione so far.

Mangione was the valedictorian of his Baltimore high school, and a computer science major at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 2020 with a Master's degree, a university spokesperson confirmed to Patch.

While at UPenn, Mangione co-founded a club to develop video games, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian, UPenn's student newspaper.

Mangione is from Maryland, and his most recent home address is in Honolulu, Hawaii, FBI special agent Leslie Rodrigues Backschies said during the press conference.

According to a LinkedIn profile for Mangione, he was a data engineer for a company called TrueCar, Inc.

"While we generally don’t comment on personnel matters, we can confirm that Luigi Mangione has not been an employee of our company since 2023," a TrueCar spokesperson told Patch.

According to Baltimore news site WBALTV, Mangione’s family owns a country club in Maryland, and his cousin is Nino Mangione, a Republican lawmaker who represents a Baltimore district in the House of Delegates.

And this past year, Mangione read and reviewed Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski’s “Industrial Society and its Future,” giving it a four out of five stars on Good Reads, and saying that the author was an "extreme political revolutionary."

“He was a violent individual — rightfully imprisoned — who maimed innocent people,” Mangione wrote in the review. “While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”

A YouTube channel under Mangione's name and photo posted an eerie video on Monday afternoon titled "The Truth" that just said, on a blank screen with a countdown clock, "If you see this, I'm already under arrest. All is scheduled, be patient. Bye for now."

This is a developing story and may be updated. For questions and tips, email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.