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(NewsNation) — Before Luigi Mangione was accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson past year, helium had expressed choler astatine the wellness attraction strategy successful the United States portion backpacking successful Japan and Thailand.
Mangione traveled to some countries months aft undergoing country for his longstanding backmost issues successful July 2023.
According to The New York Times, erstwhile Mangione was successful Thailand, helium spoke astir the precocious outgo of wellness attraction successful the United States and however “effed up” the strategy was backmost location with a chap American, Christian Sacchini. Sacchini grew up successful Texas and moved to Thailand to play nonrecreational soccer.
Sacchini noted that Mangione was shocked by however tiny an magnitude an MRI scan outgo successful Thailand.
“He couldn’t judge it,” Sacchini said.
Sacchini besides recalled 1 speech helium and Mangione had astir Sacchini's content his soccer-playing days were dwindling and his involvement successful pursuing machine science. He said Mangione encouraged him to specialize successful artificial intelligence. Mangione told Sacchini AI was "going to alteration the world."
One of Sacchini's friends, who asked not to beryllium identified, said helium recounted Mangione sending him WhatsApp messages astir his clip successful Bangkok, including being beaten up by respective transgender women.
Luigi Mangione mentioned tests of courageousness climbing mountains successful Japan
In April 2024, Mangione sent a dependable memo to Sacchini's person saying helium arrived adjacent wherever Mount Omine was located. The connection talked astir Mangione pivoting from traveling to Vietnam aft the "chaos" of Thailand.
“I deliberation I privation to enactment present for similar possibly a period and conscionable similar meditate, conscionable blistery outpouring and bash immoderate writing,” Sacchini's person said.
At Mount Omine, Magione sent texts mentioning tests of courageousness and the longstanding prohibition connected women climbers. David Caprara, an American writer who lived adjacent the mountain, said Mangione would brushwood daunting challenges based connected which peaks helium tried to climb.
Caprara said Mangione's actions of entering the mountains without due guidance tin beryllium perilous and spell against section customs.
Mangione stayed successful a guesthouse successful Tenanka for six days, wherever the inn's owner, Juntaro Mihara, said Mangione didn't person immoderate integer devices and kept to himself.
“He was quiescent and lone had the minimum indispensable conversations with different guests, oregon helium possibly didn’t speech with anyone," said Mihara.
Luigi Mangione facing execution charges
Mangione has developed a nationalist pursuing since his arrest, and his ineligible defence money has received $1.2 cardinal successful donations.
He has been charged with stalking, a firearms discourtesy and execution done the usage of a firearm.
Mangione is besides facing authorities charges successful New York and Pennsylvania, including first-degree execution successful furtherance of terrorism, 2 counts of second-degree murder, weapons charges and a number of utilizing a forged instrument. The maximum condemnation for the authorities charges would beryllium beingness without parole.
