The alleged killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson is heir to a resort fortune created by his grandparents and the brother of a prominent doctor.
Luigi Mangione, 26, comes from a powerful Maryland family centered on the late patriarch Nicholas Mangiano, a first-generation American who built a real estate empire in the state that included country clubs and media outlets.
Nicholas, who died in 2008 at age 83 after suffering a stroke, was the owner of Turf Valley Resort and Hayfields Country Club, as well as the WCBM-AM radio station.
Nicholas was born in Baltimore’s Little Italy to a poor family, but he made his way from nothing. He also founded the Lorien Health Services nursing home. Luigi volunteered at his grandfather’s nursing home in 2014, according to his LinkedIn.
Nicholas had 10 children, including Luigi’s father Luis, and was married to his wife Maria until his death. The couple lived in a $1.9 million mansion located at their country club, and Mary died in 2013.
Luigi Mangione is also the cousin of Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Nino Mangione, it was reported The Baltimore Sun.
Meanwhile, Luigi’s mother, Kathleen Zannino Mangione, owns a boutique travel company and his sister MariaSanta Mangione is a respected doctor. She currently works as a resident physician at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas after graduating from Vanderbilt medical school.
Luigi Mangione is being held in an Altoona, Pennsylvania, jail after the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot to death on the streets of Manhattan following his arrest Monday morning.
He was arrested at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania around 9 a.m. ET on firearms charges and was reportedly found with a “ghost gun” that may have been made with a 3D printer.
Luigi is pictured with his mom Kathleen and dad Louis (both in purple) and sister MariaSanta (in burgundy) at a wedding ceremony in San Diego.
Luigi Mangione is a person of interest in the murder of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thomson
Luigi’s mother, Kathleen Zannino Mangione, owns a boutique travel company specializing in the Mediterranean.
Mangione is originally from Towson, Maryland, and is a former anti-capitalist Ivy League student who attended a $40,000-a-year private school in Baltimore.
He grew up in considerable comfort in an $800,000 home in Towson, Maryland, where his parents still live.
The muscular suspect has ties to San Francisco and used to live in Honolulu, Hawaii, police confirmed.
He has not been charged in connection with Thompson’s death, but was angry about the way the health insurance industry treated a sick family member, according to the New York Post.
Mangione was valedictorian of the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he graduated in 2016.
According to the New York Times, police caught Mangione inside the McDonald’s at 407 East Plank Road in south Altoona, Pennsylvania.
The newspaper said a 911 call was made from the coffee shop around 9:15 a.m. Monday.
The 911 caller who potentially identified the gunman at the Altoona McDonald’s was an “elderly customer,” according to an unnamed law enforcement official.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed Monday afternoon that Mangione was in possession of a gun, a silencer and a fraudulent New Jersey ID.
Family patriarch, the late Nicholas Mangiano, owned Turf Valley Resort, pictured, and Hayfields Country Club, as well as radio station WCBM-AM.
Nicholas Mangiano was living in the aforementioned $1.9 million home when he died, which was located within the boundaries of his country club.
Luigi Mangione’s great-grandfather founded the Lorien Health Services nursing home. Luigi worked as a volunteer at the nursing home in 2014, according to his LinkedIn
The identification matched the one the alleged murderer used to register at a New York shelter on November 24.
They also found him with a manifesto that supposedly showed his anger at the healthcare industry and its profits.
According to Tisch, Mangione, 26, was also wearing clothing that matched the gunman’s clothing.
The Commissioner thanked the public for their help and said: “We must never underestimate the power of the public to be our eyes and ears.”
“He had ill will against American companies,” Joseph Kenny said of Mangione.
Kenny said the ‘ghost’ gun he allegedly used to kill Brian Thompson may have been made with a 3D printer.
Thompson was shot and killed outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan at 6:44 a.m. on Wednesday, December 4.
Mangione grew up in considerable comfort in this $800,000 home in Towson, Maryland
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside the Manhattan Hilton hotel on Wednesday.
Footage of the attack shows a figure, who appears to be a woman dressed in dark clothing and holding a cup of coffee, fleeing from a door as the killer opens fire a few meters away.
The doomed CEO had come to town to host UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor meeting, where he was to detail huge profits.
The harrowing footage from surveillance cameras showed Thompson taking three bullets at point-blank range.
The shell casings were later found to have the words “deny,” “defend,” “depose” written on them, in an apparent attack on healthcare industry practices.
Thompson lived in a million-dollar mansion in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a mile from the home of his estranged wife Paulette.