Luigi Mangione once claimed his mother made him eat steak with his right hand, even though he was left-handed, to ‘adhere to social norms.’
The Wall Street Journal reported that the individual believed to have murdered UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson revealed his claim whilst reviewing The Four-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris.
At 26 years old, Mangione shared a memory of his mother Kathleen Zannino Mangione’s insistence on him using his right hand while eating steak to conform to societal norms.
Hailing from a notable family in Maryland through his father Louis’ lineage, Mangione’s late grandfather Nick Mangione, a prosperous real estate developer, notably acquired Turf Valley Resort in 1978, an expansive luxurious retreat and conference center on the outskirts of Baltimore.
Zannino Mangione, owns a boutique travel company, and his sister MariaSanta Mangione is a respected doctor.
Mangione is also the cousin of Republican Maryland House of Delegates member Nino Mangione.
Mangione was taken into custody at around 9:15am Monday after police received a tip that he was eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 85 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Suspected killer Luigi Mangione is seen with his sister, father Louis, and mother Kathleen
Kathleen owns a boutique travel company. She is seen with Vincent De Paul at a 2016 event for the he Italian Trade Commission in New York City
The suspects’ Goodreads account offers a glimpse into his thinking, with links to public Google drive documents that include his handwritten thoughts.
Mangione shared quotes from the ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski online among other excerpts referencing health and sickness.
‘Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’ read one excerpt from a Kaczynski quote on Mangione’s Goodreads page.
‘The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress,’ read another.
Mangione is being held in Pennsylvania on gun charges and will eventually be extradited to New York to face charges in connection with Thompson’s death, said NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
In addition to a three-page, handwritten document that suggests he harbored ‘ill will toward corporate America,’ Kenny said Mangione also had a ghost gun, a type of weapon that can be assembled at home and is difficult to trace.
Officers questioned Mangione, who was acting suspiciously and carrying multiple fraudulent IDs, as well as a US passport, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference.
Officers also found a sound suppressor, or silencer, ‘consistent with the weapon used in the murder,’ the commissioner said.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside Manhattan’s Hilton Hotel on Wednesday
Mangione is expected to be extradited to face murder charges in New York City
He had clothing and a mask similar to those worn by the shooter and a fraudulent New Jersey ID matching one the suspect used to check into a New York City hostel before the shooting, Tisch said.
Kenny said Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, has ties to San Francisco and that his last known address is in Honolulu.
Mangione, who was valedictorian of his Maryland prep school, earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania, a university spokesman told The Associated Press on Monday.
Some details from Mangione’s manifesto, which was found on him when he was arrested, have been published by CNN.
The document, which spanned two pages, read: ‘These parasites had it coming.
‘I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.’
The document is currently being investigated by law enforcement.
