UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione was hailed as being the “best at pick-up lines” by his classmates at a Maryland private school, according to his yearbook.
An image of Mangione’s profile at the Gilman School, in Baltimore, shows he entered the school in the sixth grade, with his classmates dubbing him the school’s most skilled pick-up artist.
In the yearbook, obtained by SWNS, Mangione called his experience at the school “illuminating” as he thanked his parents for the opportunity to attend the private school.
“I’ll admit, no matter how much I hated it at the time, [you] sending me to Gilman was the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Love you,” Mangione wrote.
His profile page also shows that Mangione had several nicknames in school, including “pepperoni,” “Squeej” and “30 degrees.”
His classmates described Mangione as a nice, “very normal guy,” and a “smart kid” who would go on to be valedictorian in 2016, according to SWNS.
One former classmate and friend, who said Mangione would just do “normal high school stuff,” told the news agency that they were in “complete shock” when they heard the news that the former schoolmate was now charged with the murder of Brian Thompson in New York City.
What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
- Brian Thompson, the CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down Wednesday outside a luxury Midtown hotel in a “brazen, targeted attack,” police said.
- Thompson was named CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Department of Justice.
- Thompson’s wife, Paulette, said her husband had been getting threats before he was killed.
- Thompson’s shooting led to sick support online, and even spurred a tasteless lookalike competition in NYC.
- A person of interest has been nabbed by police officers inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa.
- The suspect has been identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, originally from Towson, Md. He’s a former Ivy League student who hated the medical community.
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Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pa., after he was spotted at a McDonald’s after a five-day manhunt.
The 26-year-old was charged with murder, three counts of criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal possession of a forged instrument, and arraigned at the Blair County Courthouse, where he was denied bail.
During his arrest, police discovered a ghost gun with a silencer on him and other items that sources said were “consistent” with what police were seeking, including a three-page handwritten manifesto railing against the healthcare industry that claimed “these parasites had it coming.”
At his extradition hearing on Tuesday afternoon, Mangione could be heard shouting as he made his first comments since his arrest.
“It’s extremely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and the lived experience,” Mangione yelled.
Mangione has elected to fight his extradition back to New York, and he is currently being held at a state prison in Huntingdon, PA.