Let us know if any of this surprises you. This morning a man who is believed to be the killer of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was taken into custody in a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania after being spotted by another customer. When police arrived and asked him for his identification, he gave them the same fake ID used by the killer to check into a hostel in New Jersey before the shooting.
Not only was he wearing clothing matching that seen in security camera footage, but he had a pistol and silencer in his backpack, three other false identifications and “a handwritten manifesto criticizing health care companies for putting profits above care.” The suspect has since been identified as Luigi Mangione who was born in Maryland and lived in Honlulu.
As the New York Times reports . . .
Luigi Mangione posted pictures of his travels with friends and family. A person with the same name attended a private high school in the Baltimore area, where he wrestled and became valedictorian, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 with degrees in engineering, according to a school commencement program.
According to the New York Post Mangione . . .
…is an anti-capitalist Ivy League grad who liked online quotes from “Unabomber’’ Ted Kaczynski — and seethed in a manifesto, “These parasites had it coming,” law enforcement sources told The Post on Monday.
NEW: Photo of fake ID & gun found on Luigi Mangione at the time of arrest
(via WNBC) pic.twitter.com/WX5epiuocE
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 9, 2024
So let’s sum up, shall we? We have a privileged white leftist anti-capitalist, a product of the Ivy League, who was not only too stupid to toss the murder weapon in the Hudson River, but was still wearing the same clothes (or very similar that) he’d been seen wearing when he committed one of the most high-profile murders in recent American history.
The manifesto consisted of two and a half handwritten pages that mirrored the quotes that Mangione posted on his Goodreads account from wacky anti-establishment Ted Kaczynski, the infamous “Unabomber’’ who terrorized the country for nearly two decades by mailing deadly bombs before he was nabbed in 1996, sources said.
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’’ Kaczynski wrote at one point in a quote liked by Mangione.
“Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.’’
The fact that this allegedly murderous anti-capitalist was caught in a McDonalds is, we suppose, just icing on the cake.
Mangione also subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes, according to law-enforcement sources, citing online activity gleaned by authorities.
If there’s been any institution in America that’s seen its stock hit harder in the last year than the Ivy League, we’re not sure what the might be. Feel free to toss out ideas in the comments.
This video just went up on YouTube under the same account name as the alleged assassin’s X account: pic.twitter.com/aaBTaeaYzB
— Dr. Ben Braddock (@GraduatedBen) December 9, 2024
And he 3D printed the pistol frame and suppressor he used.
POLICE REPORT: How Luigi Mangione was caught in Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/hq3GUTkHlx
— BNO News Live (@BNODesk) December 9, 2024
Cowardly murderer, which is pretty typical of Leftists.
New York mayor Adams and local law enforcement are now claiming he used a 3D printed ‘Ghost Gun’.
Not every ‘ghost gun’ is 3D printed. By the picture, it doesn’t look 3D printed to me…
I think they were commenting on the original picture of the B&T Station Six mainly because they wouldn’t know a 3D printed gun if it jumped up and shot them.
If it happened to a person not well connected and wealthy like the CEO was, just a normal every day person the media would have already moved on to something else or it would have been buried in the noise of all their other stuff and the killer would probably never be found and arrested.
Mayor Adam’s says the shooting ‘shook the city’…how dramatic. I’ll bet you can’t find 10 regular people on the streets of New York that actually give a hoot.
Far more New Yorker’s were paying attention to the Daniel Penny trial and verdict because it had a greater effect on their everyday lives and safety.
I take it, no word on whether or not Luigi Mangione has a brother named Mario, or not?
{Rimshot} 😉
Word is Mario is too busy to respond to questions about that as he is trying to continue a high speed chase after spinning out on a banana peel.
Chuck.
The gun, from the pic, doesn’t look 3D printed to me but its not the best quality pic.
The slide is a glock OEM slide and those are not 3D printed.
Assuming they are talking about the lower: But the report says 3D printed when they seized the gun at the arrest, so how did the officers determine at the time of arrest or for the report the gun was 3D printed? But I guess its possible it could be 3D printed, its hard to tell from the pic.
Is it just me…or does it seem to any one else that although this guy did kinda play around some with the cops (i.e. monopoly money in the backpack in central park), does it seem that he wasn’t concerned about being caught? I mean, he was really visible about what he did with witnesses around, hes all over the place on video, he stays around people who can ID his physical characteristics ((i.e rooming with others at the hostle and flirting with an employee and showing his face), wonders around the hotel in full view of surveillance cameras for 30 minutes prior the murder, uses track’able transport methods, when hes approached by the McDonalds employee he gladly pulls down his mask showing his full face knowing his full face pic is all over media and then knowing he is id’d stays at the McDonalds and basically ends up waits for the cops to show up. It just seems part of his plan was playing a little with the cops, not making super super easy to find him but still was intent on leaving a trail to him.
Lot of weird possibly just looney tunes but the amount of information not available regarding what the victim was up to re insider trading testimony prior to death is also weird.