The suspect who is believed to be the assassin who murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson a week ago, Luigi Mangione, was not insured by them according to a statement released to the public by the company. UnitedHealth Group, which is the largest healthcare organization in the country, revealed it had no record of Mangione, 26, being a client, according to a report from NBC News. The alleged assassin used the word, “United” in his manifesto — all these lunatics have a manifesto where they bloviate on and on about some issue or topic in an attempt to justify their actions — in which he raged against the machine known as the insurance industry.
Joseph Kenny, the Chief of Detectives for the New York Police Department, spoke with NBC News and told them that the reason Mangione may have targeted United Healthcare is due to the company’s size.
“We have no indication that he was ever a client of United Healthcare, but he does make mention that it is the fifth-largest corporation in America, which would make it the largest healthcare organization in America,” Kenny stated, according to the Daily Wire. “So that’s possibly why he targeted that company.”
According to Kenny, Mangione seemingly sustained “a life-changing injury” in July 2023, which caused him to go to the emergency room. After turning 26, Mangione would have been forced off his parents’ health insurance if he was not already covered under his own plan. Fox Business reported that Mangione’s mother was also not a member of UnitedHealthcare.
“He posted X-rays of screws being inserted into his spine,” Kenny went on to say to the outlet. “So, the injury that he suffered was, was a life-changing, life-altering injury, and that’s what may have put him on this path.”
Reddit posts reportedly authored by Mangione in 2023 convey that the suspect was pleased with a back surgery he said he underwent, and said that it relieved him of his chronic pain, according to the Associated Press. In the posts, Mangione even encouraged others struggling with similar issues to consider surgery. Mangione reportedly lost touch with family members and friends around six months ago.
The suspected assassin’s mother filed a missing persons report with San Francisco police just weeks before Thompson was killed in New York City, the San Francisco Standard reported. Mangione worked in San Francisco for a short time before moving to Honolulu, Hawaii. In social media posts, he also referenced visiting Japan earlier this year. San Francisco police identified Mangione as the person of interest sought by the NYPD four days before he was identified after his arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania, sources told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Authorities investigating Mangione after his arrest discovered a spiral notebook that was stuffed with passages where he mentions killing the “CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention.”
“It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents,” the would-be assassin allegedly stated in the notebook.
“Shell casings found at the scene of the assassination had the words ‘delay,’ ‘deny,’ and ‘depose’ written on them. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Wednesday that a water bottle and Kind snack bar wrapper recovered by police near the crime scene contained fingerprints that match those of Mangione. Tisch also noted that three shell casings recovered at the scene of the crime matched the homemade gun found on Mangione when he was arrested,” the Daily Wire concluded.
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