As the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was brought for the extradition hearing, Luigi Mangione shouted at the media waiting outside the courtroom. “It’s extremely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and the lived experience,” he said as he was led into a Pennsylvania courthouse. Dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit, Luigi was seen screaming to send out his message. He will have to be transferred to New York City where he coldbloodedly shot Thompson dead.
The 26-year-old comes from a wealthy family with political connections as well. But Mangione left the luxury of his family house and started staying in a co-living space in Hawaii. While his former friends, and roommates can’t imagine him emerging as a killer as Mangione is a very well-read, well-educated person, his back injury, they said, changed him as a person. It’s not clear whether his spinal surgery had anything to do with UnitedHealthcare, but his social media history shows he read a lot about back pain.
In a hand-written note found on him during the time of arrest, Mangione compared UnitedHealthcare to a magia accusing the country’s largest private insurer of putting its profits above the care of its clients. He wrote that US has the “most expensive healthcare system in the world” but ranks 42 in life expectancy”. The note showed how he considered himself as a hero who had to take the action to stop such kind of injustices. “Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty,” Mangione wrote. Brian Thompson’s murder was a “symbolic takedown” and a “direct challenge” to the health care company’s coruup[tion and power games, his note revealed.
In the new arrest warrant, five charges were imposed against Mangione — three counts of criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a forged instrument.
