Luigi Nicholas Mangione’s life story changed dramatically on Monday.
Eight years ago, he was valedictorian at Gilman, an elite all-boys school in Baltimore, where tuition is more than $37,000 a year for ninth through 12th grades.
In 2020, he graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school.
Now he is the subject of a manhunt that began a week ago after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed outside a New York City Hilton. That search led to a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where the 26-year-old was arrested on weapons charges.
Here is a timeline based on police and public reports:
Sunday November 24:
Thompson’s killer arrived in New York City by bus at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 24, according to surveillance video, police said. The bus was traveling from Atlanta to New York, but it is not clear where the suspect joined the ride.
Wednesday December 4:
According to multiple reports, the suspect was seen on surveillance footage at 5 a.m. outside a hostel on the city’s Upper West Side where he was believed to be staying.
At 6:19 a.m. that morning, surveillance video shows him walking along 55th Street.
More than twenty minutes later, at 6:44 a.m., Thompson was shot by a masked gunman outside the Hilton Midtown. The gunman continued shooting as he walked toward the victim.
According to police, the suspect then fled on a bicycle and rode into Central Park.
The bicycle was abandoned around 86th Street and Columbus Avenue, after which the suspect took a taxi to a bus depot on 178th Street.
Monday December 9
Mangione was arrested in Altoona after he got off a Greyhound bus and was recognized by a McDonald’s employee.
New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said he had a handwritten note that spoke of “his motivation and mentality,” including an “ill will toward corporate America.”
Police said Mangione had a ghost gun — a homemade firearm — and a fake New Jersey driver’s license, like the one used to check into a New York hostel.
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