A person who graduated from an Ivy League institution was apprehended at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. This arrest came after a witness identified him from pictures of the suspect shared by law enforcement, as revealed by a source familiar with the investigation to Fox News Digital.
The individual in question is Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old software engineer, who was found with a gun and silencer resembling those used in the shooting of Thompson. Additionally, he was found in possession of four counterfeit IDs, one of which bore the same name as the ID used by the suspected shooter to register at a hostel on the Upper West Side, as reported by the New York Post.
A high-ranking law enforcement official, as reported by the New York Times, stated that Mangione had documented grievances against healthcare companies for prioritizing profits over providing proper care.
Luigi Mangione was taken into custody at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania. (Luigi Mangione/Facebook)
Mangione was taken to Altoona Police Department, which did not return Fox News Digital’s requests for comment at press time. He was arrested on unrelated charges for , the department wrote in a press release.
NYPD officials arrived at the department several hours after Mangione was taken into custody.
Altoona is a city located about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Mangione of Towsom, MD was valedictorian of his Baltimore prep school class in 2016, per the school’s newspaper, and graduated with a Master’s degree in engineering and computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, according to his LinkedIn.
An NYPD vehicle is pictured outside the Altoona Police Department in Pennsylvania on December 9. (Fox News Digital)
He is a software developer who has worked for TrueCar Inc. for the last four years, per his LinkedIn.
Online activity showed Mangione subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes and shows his disdain for the state of health care in the U.S., law enforcement sources told the Post.
Mangione’s Goodreads account shows that his literary interests range from Socrates to Aldous Huxley to the writings of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
With the handle @luigi.from.fiji, Mangione’s social media also indicates that he currently resides in Hawaii.
Thompson was shot three times outside the Hilton Midtown in New York City. The suspect in the shooting was last seen at Port Authority bus station in Upper Manhattan.
Mangione has not yet been formally named by law enforcement as Thompson’s shooter.
