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(NewsNation) — The antheral charged successful the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, was “brilliant-minded” and “very popular” successful precocious school, an anonymous classmate tells NewsNation.
“He was the valedictorian of our precocious school, but helium didn't enactment successful overmuch effort astatine all. He would beryllium determination successful class, not survey aft school, and aced the tests,” the classmate said connected “CUOMO.”
According to people records, Mangione attended a backstage precocious schoolhouse successful Baltimore, Maryland. In summation to world feats, helium was besides a wrestler.
“[Mangione] was an bonzer mind. He was a precise fashionable idiosyncratic successful the class,” helium added. “Had a batch of friends. It's conscionable shocking that helium would perpetrate specified a heinous act.”
R.J. Martin, who was roommates with Mangione astatine a coliving abstraction successful Hawaii, met Mangione erstwhile helium was already successful his 20s.
Martin tells NewsNation that he, similar galore others successful the community, was looking to bask the tropics and unrecorded healthier — namely, healing a atrocious back, Mangione told him.
“I don't cognize if it was an wounded oregon preexisting, (but) helium was doing everything helium could to, you know, not beryllium successful symptom erstwhile helium moved successful astatine Surfbreak [Coliving],” Martin said.
Martin’s acquisition echoes Mangione’s precocious schoolhouse reputation, with the roommate describing him arsenic “a benignant person, large listener, idiosyncratic that you cognize you would bask having a cupful of java with.”
“And I conscionable can't ideate that this is the aforesaid person,” Martin said, calling the incidental “unimaginable.”
Martin emphasized that portion helium and Mangione had discussed wellness attraction before, it ne'er teetered toward convulsive ideation.
“Most radical are alert that galore of the systems that we unrecorded wrong don't payment america arsenic good arsenic they could. And you know, those are mean intelligence conversations and discussions that we have,” Martin said. “And helium and I had galore of those kinds of intelligence conversations, but ne'er thing remotely towards violence. He was ne'er aggressive. I ne'er adjacent retrieve him erstwhile being upset.”
Mangione’s anonymous classmate pointed to him arsenic idiosyncratic who was “capable of moving oregon starting their ain biotech steadfast that could person helped cure immoderate of these illnesses.”
“I privation to cognize wherefore helium thought determination was nary different way. … The information that that caput is present going to spend, likely, the remainder of their beingness successful situation is precise sad,” helium added.
Luigi Mangione named idiosyncratic of involvement successful UnitedHealthcare shooting
Manhattan prosecutors filed execution and different charges against Mangione precocious Monday night.
He remains successful Pennsylvania jail. He was arrested Monday connected forgery charges successful Pennsylvania aft questioning by authorities, according to a constabulary briefing connected Monday evening successful the Keystone State.
His Monday arraignment saw his bail denied, and a preliminary proceeding acceptable for Dec. 23.
In Pennsylvania, Mangione was charged with forgery, carrying firearms without a license, having “instruments of a crime,” tampering with records oregon accusation and mendacious recognition to instrumentality enforcement.
The NYPD released Mangione’s sanction astatine a property league aboriginal that day.
Investigators said Mangione matched the statement of the ID they were searching for and was recovered successful possession of respective items they judge would link him to the shooting.
Those allegedly see a mask, firearm, suppressor and fake New Jersey ID that was utilized to cheque into a hostel successful New York. Police described the firearm arsenic accordant with the 1 utilized to sprout Thompson.
Investigators said the weapon appeared to beryllium a shade gun, a word for a weapon with nary serial number, which whitethorn person been made connected a 3D printer and susceptible of firing a 9mm round.
Police besides recovered a handwritten papers that speaks to his information and mindset.
Mangione has nary anterior arrests connected his record.
NewsNation’s Safia Samee Ali contributed to this report.
