The 26-year-old charged with the cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson comes from a prominent Maryland real estate family.
Luigi Mangione’s grandfather was a multimillionaire developer and owner of a resort and a country club in suburban Maryland.
Nicholas Mangione, who died in 2008, had 10 children and 37 grandchildren, several of whom now manage the family’s real estate holdings, according to published reports.
He bought the Turf Valley Resort and Conference Center in Ellicott City in 1978, according to The Washington Post. He and his family eventually turned it into the local county’s only full-service resort and conference center. They built a 220-room hotel, ballroom, spa and amphitheater.
The real estate family patriarch and his wife also purchased nearby Hayfields Country Club in 1986 and restored it almost a decade later, according to the club’s website.
Nicholas Mangione also founded Lorien Health Services, a nursing home and assisted living company with nine locations. The family still runs the company.
The Baltimore native and son of Italian immigrants handed day-to-day management of Turf Valley to his children. His son Pete — the suspect’s uncle — remains the general manager, according to published reports and his LinkedIn profile. The family owned several other businesses, including hotels, subdivisions and nursing homes, according to reports.
It’s unclear which of the patriarch’s children is the father of Luigi, the 26-year-old arrested while eating at a Altoona, Pennsylvania, McDonald’s after an employee recognized him and called police.
One of Luigi Mangione’s cousins, Nino Mangione, is a Maryland state legislator. He released a statement from the Mangione family saying they “only know what we have read in the media” and that they were “shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest.”
Mangione was acting suspiciously and carrying fraudulent IDs when confronted by officers in the Altoona McDonald’s, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
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“Upon further investigation, officers recovered a firearm on his person, as well as a suppressor, both consistent with the weapon used in the murder,” she said at a press conference. “They also recovered clothing, including a mask consistent with those worn by our wanted individual.”
The fraudulent New Jersey ID that Mangione was carrying matched the one a suspect used to check into a New York City hostel before Wednesday’s fatal shooting. Officers also recovered a three-page handwritten document “that speaks to both his motivation and mindset,” the commissioner said.
A senior law enforcement official later told the New York Times that the 262-word manifesto complains that UnitedHealthcare’s market capitalization has grown, unlike American life expectancy has not (although it has actually grown steadily since 1950 except for a tiny decrease from 2014 to 2017).
“To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone,” Mangione wrote, blaming companies that “abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.”
Mangione, who wrestled in high school, reportedly had back surgery to treat a painful spinal condition that he told his landlord in Hawaii prevented him from having a romantic relationship. But police alleged that he ran from the murder scene and then rode a bicycle to Central Park.