Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has been arrested for the murder of Brian Thompson. Based on news accounts, there doesn’t seem to be any doubt that they got the right man. Mangione was recognized by a patron or employee in a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, who dialed 911.
The Daily Mail describes the alleged murderer:
Mangione is originally from Towson, Maryland, and is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student who attended a $40,000-a-year Baltimore private school.
Why is that not surprising?
He then attended the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania where he studied computer science and engineering before working in a software company based in Santa Monica, California.
Mangione must have expected to be caught; he probably wondered why it took so long. He was carrying a gun and silencer that presumably are the ones used in the murder, along with four fake IDs and a “manifesto.”
The manifesto found on the man detained in Altoona was handwritten and criticized health care companies for putting profits above care, an anonymous law enforcement official told the New York Times.
He seems to have been childishly stupid, but perhaps he was a bright enough kid at one time who was ruined by his “education.” Mangione was, among other things, a fan of the Unabomber, and he was agitated about global warming as well as health care.
A section of his much shorter manifesto read: ‘I do apologize for any strife or trauma. But it had to be done. These parasites had it coming.’
Spoken like a true Marxist! Mangione appears to be a pretty garden variety lefty, only he had the courage of his convictions. His victim had it coming.
UPDATE: As you would expect, Mangione comes from a wealthy family:
Luigi Mangione, 26, comes from a powerful Maryland family centered around the late patriarch Nicholas Mangiano, a first-generation American who built a real estate empire in the state that included country clubs and media.
Nicholas, who died in 2008 aged 83 after suffering a stroke, was the owner of Turf Valley Resort and Hayfields Country Club, as well as the radio station at the WCBM-AM.
Nicholas was born in Baltimore’s Little Italy to a poor family but worked his way up from nothing.
Due to that awful capitalist system. The grandfather also founded a nursing home, and Mangione’s sister recently graduated from medical school and is now a resident in Dallas. Could be some family dynamics going on there.
Luigi Mangione’s future doesn’t look bright. On the other hand, maybe he can cut a deal with fellow radical Alvin Bragg.
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