After five days of tracking, Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old American, was indicted for the murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of the leading health insurer UnitedHealthcare, according to court documents posted online this Tuesday, December 10 by the Justice Department. New York State. The 50-year-old insurer was shot dead in cold blood on Wednesday, December 4, in the street, in front of a Manhattan hotel.
“At this time, we believe that this is the person we are looking for in the targeted and ruthless murder of Brian Thompson,” police boss Jessica Tisch said of Luigi Mangione. from New York, during a press conference Monday, December 9. The young man is also the subject of prosecution for illegal possession of weapons and false documents.
Police found a kit firearm, “which may have been made by a 3D printer” and a silencer, similar to those used by the killer, according to authorities. A three-page handwritten document discussing his “hostility toward American companies” was also seized, police said.
Several questions
The man was presented by authorities as a native of the state of Maryland (northeast), also having links to San Francisco and whose last known address was in Honolulu, Hawaii.
According to American media reports, not confirmed by the police, the words “delay” and “deny” – terms referring to rejections of claims for compensation for care by insurance companies – were written on the shell casings found at the crime scene. Investigators are also questioning a medical X-ray photo displayed on the suspect's profile on the social network X, which was suspended Monday after his arrest.
Premier de promotion et « country clubs »
The first elements of Luigi Mangione's biography evoke a young man with a diploma, son of an influential family in the Baltimore region, which owns large establishments including several “country clubs”, according to the American media. His cousin, Nino Mangione, is elected Republican to the local lower house of this state in the eastern United States, south of New York, according to the same source.
In 2016, Luigi Mangione finished first in the class of Gilman High School in Baltimore, an all-boys establishment. “My impression is that he was a normal guy, a nice kid […] intelligent,” a former student of the same high school told AFP, “surprised” to discover such news. “From my point of view, there was nothing out of the ordinary about him,” he said.
Luigi Mangione then studied at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the private establishments of the prestigious and selective Ivy League. Contacted by AFP, a UPenn spokesperson confirmed that Luigi Mangione had graduated in 2020 with a bachelor's and master's degree in engineering sciences. The young man notably co-chaired a group of 60 students at the university to develop video games.
According to his LinkedIn account, Luigi Mangione worked as a statistics engineer for the online car dealership True Car. A spokesperson for the group told AFP that he had not been employed since 2023, without giving further details.
His publications on his social networks do not reveal a clearer profile. The authorities, who indicated that they were continuing to examine his social networks, did not elaborate further on a possible motive. When his name was revealed, the young man's alleged social networks went into turmoil. On
