Luigi Mangione started yelling at the cameras as he entered a court in Pennsylvania on Monday.
The suspected killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson shouted that officials were “completely out of touch” and “insulting the intelligence of the American people.”
Mangione, 26, comes from a prominent Maryland family on his father Louis’ side. His grandfather Nick Mangione, who died in 2008, was a successful real estate developer. One of his best-known projects was Turf Valley Resort, a sprawling luxury retreat and conference center outside Baltimore that he purchased in 1978.
He was taken into custody around 9:15 a.m. Monday after police received a tip that he was eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 80 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Suspected murderer 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 Italian Trade Commission in New York City
The suspects’ Goodreads account offers a glimpse into his thinking, with links to public Google Drive documents containing his handwritten thoughts.
Mangione shared quotes online from “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, among other snippets referencing health and illness.
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy and then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,” read an excerpt from a Kaczynski quote on Mangione’s Goodreads page.
“The concept of ‘mental health’ in our society is largely defined by the extent to which an individual behaves in accordance with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress,” said another.
Mangione is being held in Pennsylvania on firearms charges and will eventually be extradited to New York to face charges in Thompson’s death, said Joseph Kenny, chief of detectives for the NYPD.
In addition to a three-page handwritten document showing 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 U.S. passport, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference.
Officers also found a silencer, “consistent with the weapon used in the murder,” the chief said.
Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot dead outside the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan 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 gunman and a fraudulent New Jersey ID that matched the 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 his last known address is in Honolulu.
Mangione, who was valedictorian of his prep school in Maryland, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020, a university spokesperson told The Associated Press on Monday.
Some details from Mangione’s manifesto, which was found with him upon his arrest, have been published by CNN.
The document, which spanned two pages, read: ‘These parasites expected it.
“I apologize for any conflict or trauma, but it had to be done.”
The document is currently being investigated by the police.