Police say they have the notebook of the murderer of alleged healthcare CEO in their hands

“What do you do? You go crazy on the CEO at the annual parasite bean counter convention. It’s specific, precise, and doesn’t put innocents at risk.” Those lines reportedly come from a notebook found in his possession of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

After Mangione was arrested earlier this week at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the public has slowly begun to learn about the man police believe committed one of the most audacious murders in living memory.

In that murder, which took place on December 4 in midtown Manhattan, Thompson was shot to death outside his hotel by a masked assailant. Security camera footage shows a figure dressed in a gray outfit who, after killing Thompson, got on an electric bike and drove away. Bullet casings found at the crime scene were engraved with the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose,” which some have speculated may refer to a book about the healthcare industry.

Now, police say they have obtained a notebook that belongs to Mangione. The New York Times information that the notebook “detailed plans for the shooting” and also “described going to a conference and killing an executive.” The Times report doesn’t shed much light on the rest of the notebook’s contents, writing that the lines that had been shared were reported to the newspaper by two law enforcement officials. It is possible that, as the criminal process progresses, more content of the notebook will be shared.

Mangione is also believed to have written a “manifesto,” which police sources say It’s legit. This supposed document was published online earlier this week by freelance journalist Ken Klippenstein and, in one section, he says: “I apologize for any trauma conflict, but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: The United States has the number one most expensive healthcare system in the world, but we rank approximately 42nd in life expectancy.” The manifesto also mentions a “spiral notebook” that, according to the document, should “illuminate its essence,” seeming to allude to the motivations for the shooting.

Unsurprisingly, Thompson’s death has polarized the Internet and the United States. Right-wing influencers almost immediately attempted to portray Mangione as a leftist, with LibsofTikTok calling him a “Anti-capitalist climate change activist.” Meanwhile, left-wing accounts were more than happy to praise the young man, with many people commenting on Mangione’s good looks and others expressing support for killing corporate executives. In fact, over the past week there has been widespread bipartisan distaste for the healthcare industry, with many people expressing their disdain for it through jokes and memes, many of which have been made at the executive’s expense. of health murdered.

That said, a clear picture of Mangione’s personal politics has yet to emerge. The Wall Street Journal referred to him as an “Ivy Leaguer with anti-capitalist leanings.” Review of Mangione’s public social media accounts has revealed a hodgepodge of interests and political leanings that do not appear to fit into a coherent partisan image. He reportedly left a favorable Goodreads book review by Ted Kaczynski, the former promising young mathematician who participated in a CIA mind control experiment in the 1950s and became “the Unabomber,” an anarchist terrorist who mailed bombs to people.

Is been reported that Mangione comes from a wealthy and well-connected family and previously worked as a computer programmer. TO video posted online shows the young man giving a valedictory speech at his private high school graduation in 2016. At some point, Mangione suffered a debilitating back injury. He is said to have He abruptly disappeared from the radar in the months before the shooting, leading some to speculate that something happened during that period that radicalized him toward violence. Mangione’s mother reportedly filed a missing person report with the San Francisco Police Department on November 18.