In a dark cul-de-sac on the outskirts of Baltimore, the fog rolled in across the sweeping lawns and wrapped itself around the imposing, detached houses.
One of these houses, until June, was the family home of Luigi Mangione — the man charged with the murder in Manhattan last week of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.
The Mangiones are well-known in this corner of Maryland.
The Italian-American family founded Lorien Healthcare, an assisted living and nursing company with services across the state, and owns a local country club.
This same shock seems to be shared by Mangione’s old neighbors in Towson, a wealthy and quiet suburb. “We can’t believe what’s happened,” said Elise Johnsen, 38, who lives several doors down from the Mangiones’ old house. “He had so much going for him.”
As a teenager, the Obamacare assassin attended the $38,000-a-year Gilman School in Baltimore, where he wrestled and played football, and was the valedictorian of his graduating class in 2016.
The Mangione family lives about 20 miles from the school on a private road that snakes its way through the grounds of Hayfields Country Club, which the family owns. The Mangione home is located towards the back of the complex of multi-storied mansions.
A heavy security presence appeared on Tuesday to keep the media away from the front gate of Hayfields. The guard on duty said it had been “a busy day”.
There were signs that Luigi Mangione had become estranged from his family and friends. At his arraignment in Pennsylvania, when asked by the judge if he was in contact with his family, he replied: “Until recently.”
One of the biggest insights into Mangione’s state of mind is a review he wrote of a book published by Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the “Unabomber”, a domestic terrorist who carried out a series of bombings across the US between 1978 and 1995.
“When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive,” Mangione wrote in the review, shared on the online platform Goodreads.
A handwritten manifesto was also found in Mangione’s possession when he was arrested, police sources say. “These parasites had it coming,” the document says.
A 26-year-old has been charged with murder after a chief executive was shot in the street — in a case that has gripped the nation and stunned his former neighbours
www.thetimes.com
And lefties cheered him.
abc7ny.com
