It is believed that Luigi Mangione is a person of interest to last week’s fatal shooting from the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompsonpolice said Monday. The 26 year old was arrested on gun charges in Pennsylvania, where New York Police Department detectives wanted to question him during a massive manhunt for the shooter.
Here’s what we know about Mangione:
Luigi Mangione’s LinkedIn says he works at TrueCar and has an Ivy League degree
According to his LinkedIn account, Mangione worked as a data engineer at car buying website TrueCar.
He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020, a Penn spokesperson confirmed to CBS News. He earned a Master of Science in engineering with a major in computer and information science, and a Bachelor of Science in engineering with a major in computer science and a minor in mathematics, the spokesperson confirmed.
While at Penn, he worked as a teaching assistant and founded a video game development club, according to his LinkedIn account.
At Stanford University in California, Mangione served as lead advisor for a pre-collegiate studies program in the summer of 2019, the university said in a statement to CBS News.
He has ties to Hawaii
Mangione’s last known address was in Honolulu, Hawaii, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters at a news conference Monday.
He graduated from the Gilman School in Baltimore
Mangione graduated in 2016 from the Gilman School, an all-boys private school in Baltimore, according to his LinkedIn account. According to his LinkedIn page, he was valedictorian for achieving the highest cumulative GPA in four years.
People messaged him on social media before his arrest
In the months leading up to Mangione’s arrest, posts tagging his account on the social media platform X indicate that his friends may have tried to contact him.
“No one has heard from you in months,” read one message from October.
Another message from July read: “I don’t know if you’re doing well or if you’re just in a super isolated place with no service. But I haven’t heard from you in months.”
