NY - UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Midtown. #7 *Arrest*

[ChetMorton]

I am so conflicted as I read more about this young man. He obviously grew up privileged, ivy league educated, a strong family with means. How did this happen? This wasn't a snap decision. Really confused. JMO

Same, also conflicted... almost to the extent that I'm not yet buying it. He acted alone and pulled off that murder and is then caught in public, at a McDonalds, still in possession of the weapon? Yeeeaaah something doesn't quite add up but we'll learn more soon enough.

 

[Furore]

Murder is not justifiable as a means or end, a family will never be the same again.

But I think this was well thought out, I think LM had deep and thought out resentment and he wanted this to have the impact on the (inter)national community that it did. I don’t think tantrum reflects what he and many other activists have ended up doing - and I don’t condone those many evil acts in many nations over the centuries.

 

[BOBON]

Have I missed any romantic partner mentioned? Ever? I may have missed it, but through all the social media nothing clearly shows anything but pictures with friends.

He is 26, I don't think that's that strange

 

[arielilane]

@SteveNorrisTV
BREAKING UPDATE… NYC assassin uspect Luigi Mangione got both his bachelor’s and master’s in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. Speaks fluent Italian. Here are SEVERAL PHOTOS of him…

 

[NuttMegg]

His parents own an actual castle. If he needed insurance he would have it.

He isn't the disgruntled person whose single mother died because she couldn't afford her medicine that folklore made him out to be.

He is a spoiled rich kid.

I don't think we know the "why" yet.

 

[girlhasnoname]

This has been in the media cycle for about a week. The public sentiment has not been at all sympathetic to health care, or their CEOS. That is what he was trying to achieve IMO>

No excuse for the murder period. It did not do one thing to help resolve the very serious issues at hand and I'm far from sympathetic to Healthcare and their practices.

I wonder how much satisfaction he'll have knowing he brought about a week's worth of attention to it (mainly to himself though) while he ends up spending a good portion, if not the rest of his life behind bars.

This story will fade from the major media cycle after the holidays if not before.

Not to mention the fact that he left BT's innocent family members victims by no choice of their own.

No more McDonalds for him. Brought down by one of the most Capitalist(y) Food Corps. of all time. Oh the irony.

JMO

 

[estone28]

He completely outwitted the NYPD, FBI and everyone else and then blows his cover eating at McDonald's. It's like he was ready to be caught. May be why he had the manifesto on him.

Shocked he didn't dump the weapons and Id's and have a post-op disguise. Cheap hollywood stache or beard and he would have never been noticed.

 

[FMB]

Too easy.....he might possibly be the shooter but who on the inside alerted him that BT would be walking out of the hotel at 645 am and would be walking out alone... was he just lucky with that timing? Seems like he must have had help from the inside.

This shooter has experience with firearms and coldly and calmly walked by BT after if was shot and again walked away as if heading to the library. Seems to me an amateur would be panicking and hurried .....not this guy

The killer knows there is a nationwide manhunt going on with his picture being circulated around the world and he gets caught eating an Egg Mcmuffin at Mcdonalds? LOL......IDK

 

[krikken]

I absolutely believe that his Good Reads lists provides relevant insight into his psyche. It's incorrect to label his reading list as "irrelevant." IMO

Books, for many of us who love reading, aren't just mindless things. My book collection would tell you a lot about who I am. You'd know just by looking through my book shelf what I'm passionate about and the causes in which I support. It would give you an idea of some of the challenges I've faced in my life, as well as plenty of indicators of my ideologies, and clues on my chosen career path.

Readers of non-fiction care very deeply about the topics they read about. I'm an exclusive non-fiction reader, and each book I choose to read has meaning to me. The only fiction I buy would be considered part of the Canon of literature, which would actually tell you that I'm a bit of a literary snob or have an education in English literature. Both are true.

Check when the list was updated. Maybe it was curated and fine-tuned just before last week.

 

[VAres67]

They didn't know his name until today, it was mentioned in the presser.

So did the police just get lucky with this bust?

 

[arielilane]

@lookner


NBC News posts photo of gun found on Luigi Mangione

https://nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-man-questioned-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompsons-shoot-rcna183160/rcrd65579?canonicalCard=true

 

[10ofRods]

Nor, if the right hand photo on his Twitter header is to be believed, hiking in the mountains while stripped to the waist.

We don't know when that was taken nor whether it was pre- or post-surgery (if there was surgery).

Also, there are plenty of pictures of me smiling (fully clothed of course) on hikes, but I'm in terrible pain at the time. I live with a missing disk at L4-5, was offered the same surgery, but my surgeon said it was only 50/50 going to make the pain better and that wasn't good enough for me.

Over the years, I've fought with the pain less and less and am therefore less active.

IMO

 

[Inthedetails]

Books, for many of us who love reading, aren't just mindless things. My book collection would tell you a lot about who I am.

My Goodreads list would tell you I read the some of the same books as an assassin!

Yes, for readers, seeing what other people read is interesting and insightful. It's not ridiculous to be curious about booklists of others - perhaps especially because we know this perp is a thinker and unlikely to chose books willy-nilly.

I study history, and when I encounter book lists of people I'm studying, you bet I'm reading them too. You can get to know a person by reading what they read. It is not the *ONLY* insight into a person, but can be important.

Yay for readers.

jmo

 

[Danaya]

He was reading books about surviving back pain. The x-ray on his profile looks to be a male of his age and size. He has quite a bit about pain and healthcare on his want to read, including quite a few more books about surviving spinal injury.

I would bet my bottom dollar that he had back surgery.

Just a guess. IMO.

Didn't one of the articles posted state that he had been a soccer player in his school days?

I wonder if he sustained an injury.

 

[ChetMorton]

We already know a ton more about this guy than we do about Thomas Matthew Crooks. hmmm

 

[JennieM]

How suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangione was caught at Altoona McDonald's: Live updates​

Luigi Mangione's arrest triggers NYPD warning of 'copy-cat' violence

Mangione, 26, has been charged with second-degree murder, after Brian Thompson, 50, was assassinated on a New York City street early on the morning of December 4.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[10ofRods]

They didn't know his name until today, it was mentioned in the presser.

They will not be saying if his name was one of many on a list - because that doesn't constitute knowing his name. It was just one name of many.

When someone called in a guy who looked like the perp and that guy was found to have the fake ID that was used at the hospital, and that same guy gave his real name, then and only then did LE know his name.

Having a list of possible names is not the same. You have to find and wrangle your perp to find out the perp's name in a case like this one.

IMO

 

[BrianJohnson]

I absolutely believe that his Good Reads lists provides relevant insight into his psyche. It's incorrect to label his reading list as "irrelevant." IMO

Books, for many of us who love reading, aren't just mindless things. My book collection would tell you a lot about who I am. You'd know just by looking through my book shelf what I'm passionate about and the causes in which I support. It would give you an idea of some of the challenges I've faced in my life, as well as plenty of indicators of my ideologies, and clues on my chosen career path.

Readers of non-fiction care very deeply about the topics they read about. I'm an exclusive non-fiction reader, and each book I choose to read has meaning to me. The only fiction I buy would be considered part of the Canon of literature, which would actually tell you that I'm a bit of a literary snob or have an education in English literature. Both are true.

Not necessarily, I gave a list of some of the books I have read in the old thread, I also own every single episode of Air Crash Investigation (Mayday) that has ever been released, over 20 series, bought a multi region player to watch them, I take no satisfaction in a single airplane crash death just have a fascination/curiosity as to what caused them

 

[VAres67]

I absolutely believe that his Good Reads lists provides relevant insight into his psyche. It's incorrect to label his reading list as "irrelevant." IMO

Books, for many of us who love reading, aren't just mindless things. My book collection would tell you a lot about who I am. You'd know just by looking through my book shelf what I'm passionate about and the causes in which I support. It would give you an idea of some of the challenges I've faced in my life, as well as plenty of indicators of my ideologies, and clues on my chosen career path.

Readers of non-fiction care very deeply about the topics they read about. I'm an exclusive non-fiction reader, and each book I choose to read has meaning to me. The only fiction I buy would be considered part of the Canon of literature, which would actually tell you that I'm a bit of a literary snob or have an education in English literature. Both are true.

Some is irrelevant. It’s good to be educated on things that ring true to you and things that don’t. That’s really how you test your beliefs.

 

[Torbs]

Have I missed any romantic partner mentioned? Ever? I may have missed it, but through all the social media nothing clearly shows anything but pictures with friends.

Bingo. He also retweeted a LOT of manosphere stuff. It’s giving incel vibes. those guys also cling to the “born in the wrong era” tropes we already see in his writing.