Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthCare, was shot dead in cold blood five days ago in the heart of New York.
A suspect was arrested on Monday in the northeastern United States.
The crazy hunt for the killer brings new elements. A suspect was arrested on Monday, December 9, in the northeast of the United States, in the investigation into the assassination in the middle of the street, Wednesday in New York, of the boss of an American health insurance giant. “Members of the Altoona Police Department”500 km west of New York, “arrested Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old man, for possession of firearms”said Jessica Tisch, boss of the New York police. And to add: “At this time, we believe this is the person we are looking for in the targeted and unscrupulous killing of Brian Thompson “.
Hostility towards American companies
According to one of the police officials, Luigi Mangione carried a document suggesting that“he feels hostility towards American companies”. According to information from New York Post the man, originally from Towson, Maryland, hated the medical community because of the way they treated a sick relative of his. Luigi Mangione is unknown to the police and has no criminal record. According to his LinkedIn profile, he indicates that he holds a master’s degree in “engineering sciences, computer science and information sciences” from the University of Pennsylvania, and has been working since 2020 as “data engineer” at TrueCar.com, an auto pricing site.
According to the New York TimesLuigi Mangione was reported by a witness at a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant in Altoona, after presenting a fake ID, similar to the one used by the killer to check into a New York hotel the night before the crime. Police considered the possibility that the shooter used a long-barreled veterinary pistol, usually used to euthanize animals and equipped with a silencer, to commit the murder. For the moment, however, the police have not reported any motive.
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UnitedHealth Group insures 51 million people and works with government programs such as Medicare, the senior health insurance system. If this assassination caused a strong stir, it was also accompanied by hateful comments on social networks against American health insurance programs, proof of deep anger towards a lucrative system, accused to enrich themselves on the backs of patients.
The “Network Contagion Research Institute”a research center specializing in digital issues, has identified “a surge of highly engaged posts across social media glorifying the event, some calling for additional acts of violence.”
