overnight in New York Luigi mangion was charged with murder in the death of United healthc Care CEO Brian Thompson it comes after a multi-day Manhunt LED police to Altuna Pennsylvania where mangion was taken into custody authorities finding three pages of writings which say in part frankly these parasites had it coming a senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation confirms to NBC News the writings also include a line that says I do apologize for any Strife or traumas but had to be done the official said now more background on the suspect's past emerging his family
carving both financial and political Footprints in Baltimore where they own two country clubs and his cousin Nino mangioni is a Republican state legislator thank you all for being here to celebrate Gilman's 116th Founders Day Manion attended the private all boys Gilman School in Baltimore where he was class valedictorian in 2016 mangion was also ivy league educated the University of Pennsylvania confirming he earned a bachelor's degree and a master's in engineering investigators say they're doing a complete scrub of mang's online posts including good reads where he quoted this take of the unibomber when all other forms
of communication fail violence is necessary to survive mangion calling it interesting and a post elsewhere of an x-ray of a back two senior law enforcement officials tell NBC News investigators are looking into whether it belongs to mangion and whether it has anything to do with the crime his last known address was in Honolulu a friend from Hawaii told CNN Manion struggled with back pain he confirmed that he had had surgery and he sent me the x-rays it looked heinous another friend telling the times mang's family said that they had not heard from him in several
months after his surgery a friend from college telling NBC he's shocked he really just struck me as another IV league student who enjoyed going to fra parties you know good-looking confident nothing particular about him so interesting to start this profile starts to get filled out what do we know about his friends and family some of them had been looking for him absolutely so what we know are two things here that are really relevant with conversations with those in his Orbit One the suspect was clearly in a lot of back pain over a period of time
and two somewhere between 6 months and a year out guys he just went off the grid Friends and Family Outreach went completely UNR returned what the connection may or may not be between these two things we don't know the only thing that is clear is that this outcome has shocked a lot of people yeah Sam thank you very much hey thanks for watching don't miss the Today's Show every weekday at 11:00 a.m. eastern 8 Pacific on our streaming Channel today all day to watch head to today.com allay or click the link right here