The suspect in the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare who is being questioned by police is a software engineer from a prominent family in the city of Baltimore, in the United States. He had previously given positive reviews of the domestic terrorist “Unabomber’s” manifesto on a book website.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was identified by New York police this Monday (9) as a “person of strong interest” in the murder of CEO Brian Thompson last week.
Family
The suspect is the grandson of Nicholas Mangione, a prominent Baltimore real estate developer, and his wife, Mary C. Mangione, a philanthropist who died last year. The Mangione family owns Lorien Health Systems, a chain of nursing homes in Maryland, and Luigi volunteered there in 2014, according to his LinkedIn page.
Training
Mangione graduated from the prestigious Gilman School, an all-boys school known as one of Baltimore’s most fashionable private schools, and was valedictorian of his high school class in 2016.
He also attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 2020 with master’s and bachelor’s degrees in computer science and a minor in mathematics, a university spokesperson told CNN . Mangione was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, photos on social media show.
Work
After graduating, Mangione worked as a software engineer for the online car sales company TrueCar, according to his LinkedIn page. His most recent address was in Hawaii, NYPD officials said.
Mangione is registered to vote at his family address in Cockeysville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, and is registered as unaffiliated with any political party, according to the state’s voter registration lookup website. He is the cousin of Maryland State Delegate Nino Mangione, a Republican, the state lawmaker’s office confirmed to local media.
Private security guards blocked access to the family’s home at a golf club on Monday afternoon.
This content was originally published in What we know about the suspect in the murder of an insurance CEO in the USA on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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