The former Ivy League student charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was described as being ‘Best at pick-up lines’ by his fellow classmates.
Luigi Mangione’s yearbook was located by two girls who posted their journey to uncover the memento in a breezy 11 second long TikTok video which saw them head to the prestigious Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, a $40,000-a-year prep school.
Mangione, 26, had served as the valedictorian of Gilman School’s Class of 2016.
The video clip sees the girls walking over a bridge to reach the school and past the sports field.
The pair then enter the school corridors where they spy Luigi Nicholas Mangione’s full name engraved on the wall in gold lettering before viewers are presented with glimpses of his profile page from the yearbook.
In his profile, Mangione describes his time at the school he attended since 6th grade as ‘illuminating’.
He also writes how he was known by various nicknames including ‘Pepperoni’. ’SqueeJ, and ‘GI’.
Alongside photos of his classmates and family, Mangione wrote what appears to be a heartfelt message directed towards his family, friends and teachers.
‘As we embrace the new, however, we won’t forget the old: friendships, values and memories from Gilman will always stay with us.’
‘Mom and Dad. Thanks for dealing with me these past 18 years. I cannot thank you enough for supporting me along the way. I’ll admit, no matter how much I hates it at the time, your sending me to Gilman was the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Love you,’ he wrote.
During his speech at the end of the year, he told his classmates they need ‘incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things.’
He praised the school for its ‘inventive [and] pioneering mentality.’
‘Throughout its time here at Gilman, the class of 2016 has been coming up with new ideas and challenging the world around it,’ he told his colleagues and their families.
He recounted how he and his classmates organized a Chick-Fil-A fundraiser and would gather before class to play sports.
‘Having great ideas, however, isn’t enough to innovate,’ Mangione said, noting that they also need ‘incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things.’
He went on to thank the parents for sending them to the pricey boys’ school, and told Gilman teachers and faculty members: ‘Our imagination draws from your inspiration and our courage largely depends on your encouragement in the classroom, on the field and on the stage.
‘Just like we’ve done these past few years, we’ll be exploring the unknown, whether that be attending colleges across the country, traveling the world during gap years [or] fulfilling military service in foreign countries,’ Mangione concluded his speech.
Mangione went on to attended the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania where he studied computer science and engineering.
He then spent four years working in a software company based in Santa Monica, California, called TrueCar.
The musclebound suspect has ties to San Francisco, and used to live in Honolulu, Hawaii, cops confirmed.
But the former valedictorian is now in custody having been charged with murder in the execution-style killing of Thompson, 50, outside a Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan on December 4.
Police saying he was carrying a ‘ghost gun’ – believed to have been made with a 3D printer – when he was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday.
The doomed CEO arrived in the city to host UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor meeting, where he was set to detail the insurance company’s massive profits for the year.
Harrowing surveillance camera footage showed Thompson being shot at point blank range by three bullets.
Afterwards the shell casings were found to have the words ‘deny,’ ‘defend’, ‘depose’ written on them, in an apparent attack on health insurance practices.
Police sources now say Mangione was angry at the way the medical insurance industry treated a sick relative, according to the New York Post.
Further details on that relative or their identity have not been shared, although online obituaries show Mangione lost a grandmother in 2013 and a grandfather in 2017.
His X account also shows an x-ray of a complicated neck surgery.
Mangione was also apparently a fan of notorious ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, and referenced quotes from him on health and sickness on his Goodreads page.
‘Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’ read one excerpt from a Kaczynski quote on Mangione’s Goodreads page.
‘The concept of ‘mental health’ in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress,’ read another.
He was in possession of a gun, silencer and a fraudulent New Jersey ID when he was arrested on Monday afternoon, NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed.
She noted that the ID matched the one the suspected killer used to check into a NYC hostel on November 24.
Mangione was also found with a manifesto – which allegedly showed he was irate about the healthcare industry and its profits – and had clothing on him that matched that of the shooter in the surveillance footage, Tisch claimed.
She then thanked the public for their help in tracking down the alleged killer, saying: ‘We should never underestimate the power of the public to be our eyes and ears.’
