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Mangione's history coming into focus

By: Chris Kenning
USA Today

..... As New York authorities seek to extradite Luigi Mangione, 26, from Pennsylvania in connection with the December4 [2024] killing of UnitedHealthcaer CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel, investigators are continuing to piece together the suspect's history.
..... Mangion's attorney Thomas Dickey, has said he expected his client to plead not guilty to all charges filed against him. Mangione, who is from a prominent Maryland family and attended the University of Pennsylvania, had posted about suffering back pain and was found with writings that suggested "ill will" toward corporate America, police have said.
..... Here's what we know about some key moments in Mangione's still-unfolding past.

2016: A promising graduate

..... Mangione was raised near Baltimore. His late grandfather, Nicholas Mangions Sr., made a name for the family developing real estate, including a 1,000-acre golf club and resort hotel, according to his obituary on FamilySearch.org . He also owned two hotels, even nursing homes, and two talk raid stations. among the suspect's relatives is Nino Margione, a cousin who is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
..... In 2016, Luigi Mangione graduated from the prestigious Gilman School, an independent all-boys K-12 school in North Baltimore, giving the valedictorian speech stressing courage and daring to be different.

2018: recalling health problems

..... In July of 2018, Mangione posted Online about health issues, including having restless sleep.
..... The flowing month, he posted in an Online group about irritable bowel syndrome. in other posts, he referenced battle with Lyme disease as a teenager and the "brain fog" that accompanied it. He missed soccer tryouts when he contracted Lyme at 13 and didn't make the team, then started noticing "mild cognitive decline" when he was 15, he posted.
..... Mangione said his symptoms severely worsened in 2017, when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, but additional tests for Lyme disease were negative.

2019: A counselor in California

..... Mangione spent a summer at Stanford University working on a pre-collegiate program, according to his LinkedIn page, USA Today has reported. A Stanford spokesperson confirmed to the Los Angles Times that he was a counselor in the program from May to September 2019.

2020: Lvy League grad

..... Mangione graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, studying engineering and applied sciences, according to his LinkedIn page. His social media posts show him surrounded by his Phi Kappa Psi fraternity brothers at school, as well as hanging out at sites in Mexico and Puerto Rico. During college, he founded a video game development club. That same year, according to his LinkedIn profile, he started working as a data engineer at TrueCar Incorporated, an auto marketplace website based in Santa Monica, California.

2022: Hawaii, talk of back surgery

..... Mangione spent the first six months of 2022 in Honolulu at a cooperative living space called SurfBreak, according to an interview with its founder R.J. Martin, in the Honolulu civil Beat. Mangione faced pain from his back issues, Martin said, and talked of an impending surgery. Martin said Mangione cut off contact in the summer.
..... "He went radio silent in June or July," Martin said.

2023: Pain and surgery

..... Mangione stopped working at TrueCar sometime in 2023, a company spokesperson told USA Today.
..... In July of that year, a USA today review of his Reddit spots shows Mangione explaining that his "back and hips locked up after the accident and my whole lumber / hips have been out of wack (sic) since then."
..... Responding to another post that same month, he wrote about suffering bladder and genital pain, back pain and sciatica after the back injury. He experienced numbness in his groin and bladder, and below the right knee.
..... In August, he wrote an uplifting post on a subreddit dedicated to spondylolisthesis, a condition that, according to the Mayo Clinic, occurs when spinal bones slip out of place and can cause chronic lower back and leg pain. The post was meant to encourage others suffering from back pain.
..... That same month, Martin told the New York Times, he checked in via text with Mangione after he'd left Hawaii earlier that summer, "and he sent me back pictures of his back surgery."

2024: Missing, then infamous

..... In May, Mangione reposted another social media suer's post related to health care, according to Business Insider. "My experience with the medical profession - and yours is probably similar - is that doctors are basically worthless unless you carefully manage them, and 2/3 of them are worthless even in that case," the post said.
..... Some friends have told news outlets Mangione stopped communication in the previous six months.
..... In November, Mangione;s mother reported him missing to San Francesco police two weeks before the shooting, John Chell, the New York Police Department's chief of patrol, told NewsNation.
..... On November 24, police said Mangione arrived in New York City on a bus that originated in Atlanta, according to ABC, but it's not clear where he got on. he later stayed at a New York hostel using a fake ID before the December 4 shooting, according to police.
..... ON December 4, Thompson was shot at around 6:45 AM. in midtown Manhattan outside a hotel where he was set to speak at an investment conference.

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