NY - UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Midtown. #8 *Arrest*

[rainbowshummingbird]

Anybody else think that this bright young man, valedictorian, was recruited right out of college? I'm thinking CIA.

No, I don’t believe his was recruited by the CIA. In any case, his back injury would’ve been a disqualifier.

 

[VAres67]

I am truly struggling to have any empathy for this guy.
Hurts his back and has surgery. Assuming his family wealth trickles down, medical bills can be paid and Baltimore has some of the best hospitals in the country (although he might have had surgery in Hawaii). He has enough savings or family support to take at least a month off of work or a year, depending on the story to deal with the back pain and plan a murder. He is living in the most expensive state and then moves to SF - again, super expensive. While seemingly unemployed. He has a family that cares enough about him to notify others that he is missing.
Life doesn’t always work out and when you live in a wealthy suburban bubble with a supportive family, adulting can be a real shock. However, he had every opportunity to do something great even down to supporting the family multi-million dollar non-profit. He blew it and is going to rot away in jail for the rest of his life instead of using his gifts to make a difference.

I don’t know that it’s that black and white. We don’t know the actual finances specific to him or his parents. It’s not unreasonable to think he could be on his own financially - especially if his family wasn’t able to find him for months- that would make you suspect they didn’t give him free access to a credit card.

A lot of America is one hospital bill away from financial disaster. Even if not, getting bill after bill after bill when the expectation is that there wouldn’t be bills is extremely frustrating.

Separate from this, neck and back issues are also associated with depression. So many people with these types of issues will have lifelong pain - a poor outcome.

I’m not justifying his actions - they were very extreme. I’m just saying this is not black and white.

 

[Marantz4250b]

Anybody else think that this bright young man, valedictorian, was recruited right out of college? I'm thinking CIA.

No, that's just total rubbish, tbh. Fantasy.

 

[Kapua]

Brian Thompson had two sons that will grow up without their father. moo

BT had two sons who will miss their father greatly, and family and friends who mourn his loss. But his sons are 16 and 19, one is grown and the other nearly so.

 

[bmacmillan1]

This confounds me!
Did his entire family NOT watch the news the past week or do the photos of FBI's Most Wanted not look like him to them?

His eyebrows alone, never mind his eyes. Come on, his direct family are not blind.

 

[Marantz4250b]

I have had a chronic lower back injury for a little over a decade now, complete with nerve pain. While I can sort of empathize with his situation, I can’t say I’ve ever felt compelled to kill anyone as a result of my injuries. I can also understand how he’s able to move so well with his injuries - you probably wouldn’t be able to tell I had such an injury most of the time.

This seems to me like a case of a privileged kid that has no coping skills and his world was absolutely rocked when faced with significant challenges for the first time. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s the impression I am left with so far.

JMO

I think that you will be proved largely correct.

 

[Dotta]

"The rookie cop
who took down CEO assassin Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald's."

Rookie cop who took down Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald's

Officer Tyler Frye was one of the officers who helped apprehend 26-year-old Luigi Mangione in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Luigi Mangione 'was unable to have sex because of severe back injury'

RJ Martin said Mangione had told him the injury sustained following an accident had made dating impossible.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Tippy Lynn]

Maybe it’s not as complex as it might look to us. Perhaps LM grew up as a big fish in a little pond. When he got out on his own in the real world he didn’t get the attention he had growing up, in school and at college. He wanted the attention, to be known, to make a name for himself and this is what it came to.

 

[DizzyB]

I am waiting for confirmation of all of the “facts” that are swirling. So far, I think the kid cracked. Maybe he always had something going on, and then something else happened that caused him to go off the rails. Do I think he was okay his whole life and a back injury and ensuing pain caused him to murder? I do not.

 

[Oakland CA]

Hidden True Crime did an incredible analysis on this case thus far.

Good

 

[browneyes]

Do they do toxicology tests when you are jailed? He told the judge he wasn’t taking any meds.

 

[detective.moon]

i’m surprised at how much people don’t want to believe his reasons were ideological. first it had to be a hit man instead, or a foreign entity, or a scammer, or a lover, anything but someone who’s angry at the health insurance system - when there’s so many people angry at the health insurance system! but no, it had to be some farfetched conspiracy instead.

now it’s even more clear that it wasn’t anything else, and now people move on to suggesting it was maybe schizophrenia when there’s not really any clear signs we’ve seen of that. imho, it’s really not much more complicated than a guy who is guided by his ideology (that you might find very flawed, or hypocritical, or you might think he should have acted on in a different way — but he didn’t believe any other way would be effective, and he believed using violence would be the only effective way, and that’s why he did what he did)

to be clear, i’m trying to explain how i think this worked for him, i’m not writing it as a defense, and of course i might be completely wrong in my assessment.

i also really agree with the people saying a chronic health condition changes you, and can radicalize you. i’m housebound with a chronic condition and have made lots of online friends with chronic health conditions. and sure, it’s rare to go to these extreme measures, but i’m not really surprised someone did.

 

[olderthandirt]

This whole case leaves me with a strange feeling.

It’s not often I have any sympathies towards a murderer but in this case I can’t help having a few. He was obviously aggrieved by the injustices of United Healthcare (as are many Americans as I’ve learnt from this thread). He was also clearly struggling with something in the months prior to this happening IMO (hence his social media posts stopping, not contacting family etc).

He is a very clever man I just wish he chose a more intelligent way of showing his displeasure with united healthcare - murdering somebody is never the correct option.

He is certainly a sad character. The whole thing is very sad.

 

[legalese]

Do they do toxicology tests when you are jailed? He told the judge he wasn’t taking any meds.

No, they don’t.

 

[Kapua]

This confounds me!
Did his entire family NOT watch the news the past week or do the photos of FBI's Most Wanted not look like him to them?

Not everyone watches news regularly. I don't, for example. Also, his family members may look like him, so they may have thought, "He looks like some of my family members", rather than "OMG, that's Luigi!" LM was thousands of miles from NY when anyone in the family last heard from him. And lastly, it's highly unusual for anyone from such a privileged background to commit such a heinous crime. MOO

 

[CrimeDawg123]

Anybody else think that this bright young man, valedictorian, was recruited right out of college? I'm thinking CIA.

No.

 

[CrimeDawg123]

This confounds me!
Did his entire family NOT watch the news the past week or do the photos of FBI's Most Wanted not look like him to them?

To be fair, we don't know that they didn't call the police.

 

[sds71]

Luigi Mangione inside Altoona, PA McDonalds eating what appears to be a hash brown before arrest

https://twitter.com/x/status/1866510162569331075

 

[rizzo0904]

Luigi Mangione inside Altoona, PA McDonalds eating what appears to be a hash brown before arrest

https://twitter.com/x/status/1866510162569331075

Wow. I 100% would have never recognized him as the person wanted for the shooting.

 

[Marantz4250b]

To be fair, we don't know that they didn't call the police.

Indeed. If they saw the picture and recognised him then they may well have done.

Tbh, I think if the info came via the family then I reckon they'll probably had their lawyer call it in to get the specifically correct words out ...I am instructed to inform you that my client thinks this person MAY look a bit like a relative of theirs who is presumed missing, but equally may not be and we're giving you this info to cover all the bases, etc, etc.... or similar.