Luigi Mangione He was charged in the fatal shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson. Thompson was shot and killed outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan on December 4, 2024, in what authorities described as a targeted attack. Mangione, 27, was arrested five days later in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a nationwide manhunt, and has since pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges.
Chief of Detectives at the New York Police Department Joseph Kenny Mangione’s arrest was announced on December 9, 2024.
“A man was taken into custody in Altoona, Pennsylvania this morning. He has been identified as Luigi Nicholas Mangione,” Kenny said. “He is a 26-year-old male, born and raised in Maryland. We know he has ties to San Francisco, California, and his last known address was Honolulu, Hawaii. He has no prior arrest history in New York.”
The case continues to develop as Mangione fights the charges in court. In January 2026, a federal judge dismissed murder and weapons charges that would have made him eligible for the death penalty, although he still faces several serious charges in both state and federal court, including second-degree murder and weapons-related crimes. Then, in May 2026, a New York judge ruled that some evidence recovered from Mangione’s backpack during his arrest could not be brought to trial because the initial search was illegal. However, prosecutors will still be allowed to use other key evidence, including the gun, silencer and notebook found during a subsequent search at the police station. His formal trial is currently scheduled to begin in September 2026.
Learn more about the person of interest reported in the Thompson case below.
The suspect in the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has been identified as Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old former Ivy League student.
He was detained this morning at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania and caught with a statement that appeared to list injustices related to the healthcare sector – he did not… pic.twitter.com/vL2puIHr7e
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) December 9, 2024
Who shot Brian Thompson?
Mangione was first named as a person of interest in the case, according to New York Post. Mangione was taken into custody by police at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on December 9 — five days after Thompson was shot to death.
Who is Luigi Mangione?
Mangione is an engineer who was first singled out as a person of interest in Thompson’s shooting New York Post I mentioned.
When police stopped Mangione in Pennsylvania, he was arrested with a gun, a silencer, four fake IDs and a statement focusing on the profits and motives of the American health care industry, according to the outlet.
His X account shows that Mangione is an outspoken advocate for the tech industry. Additionally, the NYPD said Mangione had previously “liked” social media posts Ted Kaczynski – Also known as the “Unabomber”.
Luigi Mangione was an Ivy League student
Mangione earned a bachelor’s of science and a master’s of science degree from the University of Pennsylvania in engineering, computer and information science, according to a LinkedIn profile that appears to belong to Mangione.
Mangione’s previous job experience, according to his LinkedIn
According to a LinkedIn page that appears to be Mangione’s, he worked as a data engineer at TrueCar, Inc. in Santa Monica, California, for four years. His profile website indicates that he was living in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Before joining TrueCar, Mangione’s page notes that he was the founder and project leader of the University of Pennsylvania’s Video Game Development Program from 2016 to 2020. In 2019, he served as the lead advisor for the AI Teaching Assistant at Stanford University.
While at his alma mater, UPenn, Mangione served as a teaching assistant for the “Chairman of the Recitation Committee.”
Luigi Mangione’s family owns a country club
according to Los Angeles MagazineMangione’s parents own Turf Valley Resort and Hayfields Country Club.
Why was Brian Thompson shot?
Newly revealed diary entries and a manifesto indicate that Mangione planned Thompson’s murder in advance and viewed him as a symbol of what Mangione viewed as a corrupt and exploitative health care industry. In his writings, Mangione criticized the “murderous greed-fueled health insurance cartel” and argued that targeting an industry executive would “portray the greedy scoundrel who was to come.”
Mangione also appears to have been motivated by a chronic back injury and dissatisfaction with care (or perceived failure) from the medical and health insurance systems. He allegedly felt ignored and mistreated by the healthcare sector.
