Not long after police identified and arrested a suspect in connection to last week’s health insurance company CEO shooting, his apparent social media profiles were discovered.
Monday afternoon, police identified Luigi Mangione as the suspect they had taken into custody for the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. According to reports, police were notified by a tipster of his presence at a fast food restaurant. Responding officers found a weapon similar to the one used in the killing. They also found multiple fake IDs and a two-page handwritten manifesto that railed against the health insurance industry.
Once his name was published online, social media users were quick to comb through his apparent social media profiles for a glimpse into his personal life and views.
According to the X account with the user name “@PepMangione” — which hasn’t been updated since June — Mangione gave a speech in his senior year of high school about “topics ranging from conscious artificial intelligence to human immortality.” He retweeted a video in which billionaire Peter Thiel claimed the prevalence of autistic people running startup companies is “an indictment of our whole society.”
Mangione also agreed with Tucker Carlson that modern architecture “kills the spirit.”
In an April 2024 tweet, Mangione proposed a number of solutions to Japan’s native population decline, including banning sex toys and replacing conveyor belt sushi with “actual human interaction with a waiter.”
In January, he seemingly expressed support for “specific” drugs, claiming “the most intelligent, open-minded individuals I know all manipulate and push the buttons of their pysche” by using substances like psilocybin and marijuana.
Social media users also discovered his apparent profile on Goodreads — which has since been made private. Going all the way back to 2017, his reads include Vice President-elect JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, George Orwell’s 1984, and Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime, among others. His favorites include Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics and Tim Urban’s What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies.
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He also read the manifesto of Theodore John Kaczynski — infamously known as the Unabomber. In his review, Mangione stated, “You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it’s not terrorism, it’s war and revolution.”
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