Fans beg Kim Kardashian to help CEO shooter suspect Luigi Mangione with her criminal justice work

Fans are calling on Kim Kardashian to ‘help’ Luigi Mangione, who is suspected in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, after his arrest.

Thompson, 50, was fatally shot in the middle of New York City on Wednesday, December 4, in what police say was a targeted attack on the health care boss.

A manhunt was launched and on Monday Mangione – a 26-year-old Ivy League-educated “anti-capitalist” – was apprehended at a McDonald’s location in Pennsylvania after an employee recognized him and reported him to authorities.

While he remains jailed on murder charges, Mangione has amassed a passionate cult following online, with many praising him for “sacrificing himself for society.”

And now, fans of Kardashian – who has been studying to become a lawyer since 2018 – are pleading with her to intervene and help Mangione in his legal battle.

The reality TV star, 44, is deeply involved in criminal justice reform and has helped more than a dozen people get out of prison since 2019. CBS News.

A fan made a joke about one of Kardashian’s most infamous quotes, reposting Mangione’s mugshot on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday with the caption: “Get to work and work @kimkardashian”

“Someone please contact Kim Kardashian and tell her to protect Luigi Mangione, he can’t go to jail,” another tweeted.

Many hoped that Kardashian would ‘represent’ Mangione in court – despite not being a licensed lawyer – while others jokingly asked her to feature the handsome suspect in the next campaign for her clothing brand SKIMS.

One person on[Mangione is] lowkey modern prison bae kim kardashian is currently looking for ways to release him!! the inevitable skims campaign will destroy the internet…’

While many felt it was possible that Kardashian could help Mangione, others felt that it was unlikely that a billionaire, like her, would go against “corrupt rich people.”

Kim has been working on a law degree since 2018 in memory of her late father Robert Kardashian – who was a high-profile lawyer but died in 2003 at the age of 59.

The mother of four passed the baby bar exam in California in 2021 after four attempts. She plans to take the California bar exam in 2025.

Despite not yet being a lawyer, Kim already has incredible legal success to her name.

The Hulu star helped successfully campaign for the clemency of Alice Marie Johnson, who was sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent crime.

She also consistently advocates for inmates, including Erik and Lyle Menendez, who will soon be sentenced after serving nearly three decades in prison for the 1989 murders of their parents.

Most recently, Kim visited Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in April to advocate for criminal justice reform.

Kardashian has not commented on Mangione’s recent arrest or called for her to “help” him.

The 26-year-old was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a McDonald’s customer recognized him and notified an employee, authorities said. Police in Altoona, about 230 miles west of New York City, were quickly called to the scene.

They arrived to find Mangione sitting at a table in the back of the restaurant, wearing a blue medical mask and looking at a laptop, according to a criminal complaint from Pennsylvania State Police.

He initially gave them a fake ID, but when an officer asked Mangione if he had been to New York recently, he “became quiet and started shaking,” the complaint said.

When he pulled down his mask at the officers’ request, “we knew this was our guy,” rookie officer Tyler Frye said at a news conference in Hollidaysburg.

New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference in Manhattan that Mangione was carrying a gun like the one used to kill Thompson and the same fake ID the gunman had used to check into a New York hostel, along with a passport and other fraudulent IDs. .

From surveillance footage, New York investigators determined that the gunman fled on a bicycle to Central Park, emerged and then took a taxi to a bus station in northern Manhattan.

Once in Pennsylvania, he went from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, “trying to keep a low profile” by avoiding cameras, said Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Mangione had a three-page handwritten document showing “ill will toward corporate America.”

A law enforcement official who was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity said the document included a sentence in which Mangione claimed to have acted alone.

“I’ll keep it short for the FBI because I respect what you do for our country. To spare you a lengthy investigation, I clearly state that I have not collaborated with anyone,” the official said in the document.

It also included a sentence that said, “I apologize for any conflict or trauma, but it had to be done.” Honestly, these parasites just got it.”

At the murder scene, officers found bullets and shell casings with the words “delay,” “deny” and “depose” scrawled on them. The words mimic a phrase used to criticize the insurance industry.

Mangione is a grandson of a wealthy, self-made real estate developer and philanthropist and a nephew of a current Maryland state lawmaker. Mangione was valedictorian at his elite prep school in Baltimore, where in his 2016 graduation speech he praised his classmates’ “incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things.”

Mangione graduated at the top of his class from Baltimore’s elite Gilman School and even gave the commencement address at his graduation in 2016, according to video of the ceremony.

“He seemed like a smart kid, he always did the right thing, it seemed,” a former classmate, who was shocked by the arrest, told Fox News Digital, adding, “[He] wasn’t crazy.’

He then earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020, a spokesperson said.

“Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” Mangione’s family said in a statement that his cousin, Maryland Assemblymember Nino Mangione, posted on social media late Monday.

“We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and ask people to pray for everyone involved.”