Luigi Mangione identified as suspected CEO shooter as he’s seized in McDonald’s with a chilling manifesto

A brilliant student who graduated from his school’s valedictorian and appears to have a job at a top tech company has been arrested for the execution-style murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.

Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested at McDonald’s Altoona, Pennsylvania, at 9 a.m. after a worker spotted him and called police. He was arrested on firearms charges and was carrying a “ghost gun,” believed to be made with a 3D printer, when he was arrested.

He is the prime suspect in the execution killing of 50-year-old Thompson outside the Hilton hotel on December 4.

Originally from Towson, Maryland, Mangione is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student who attended one of Baltimore’s most prestigious schools, the $40,000-a-year Gilman.

He then attended the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania, where he studied computer science and engineering before working for four years at a software company based in Santa Monica, California, called TrueCar.

The muscular suspect has ties to San Francisco and previously lived in Honolulu, Hawaii, police confirmed.

Police sources said he was angry with the way the health insurance industry treated a sick family member, police said New York Post.

No further details about that family member or their identity have been shared, although online obituaries show Mangione lost a grandmother in 2013 and a grandfather in 2017.

His X account also contains an X-ray of a neck operation.

Mangione was valedictorian at the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he graduated in 2016.

In the photo: the suspect is allegedly involved in the shooting of Brian Thompson

According to the New York Times, police arrested Mangione at the McDonald’s at 407 East Plank Road in south Altoona, Pennsylvania.

According to the newspaper, the emergency number was called from the cafe around 9:15 am on Monday.

The 911 caller who possibly identified the shooter at the Altoona McDonald’s was an “older patron,” according to an anonymous law enforcement official.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed Monday afternoon that Mangione was in possession of a gun, silencer and a fraudulent New Jersey ID.

Luigi Mangione was arrested on firearms charges and is the person of interest

Mangione was a known anti-capitalist, according to his social media

Luigi Mangione, pictured with a McDonald’s Happy Meal, was spotted at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania

The ID matched the one the suspected killer used to check into a New York hostel on November 24.

He was also found with a manifesto purporting to show his anger at the healthcare industry and its profits.

According to Tisch, 26-year-old Mangione also had clothing that matched the shooter’s clothing.

The commissioner thanked the public for their help and said: “We should never underestimate the power of the public to be our eyes and ears.”

“He had ill will against corporate America,” Joseph Kenny said of Mangione.

Kenny said the “ghost gun” he allegedly used to kill Brian Thompson may have been made with a 3D printer.

Thompson was shot outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan at 6:44 a.m. on Wednesday, December 4.

The doomed CEO had arrived in town to host UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor meeting, where he was expected to detail the massive profits.

Brian Thompson is seen in a professional portrait photo taken before he was brutally shot by a suspect, according to police Luigi Mangione

Harrowing CCTV footage showed Thompson being shot by three bullets at close range.

Afterwards it turned out that the words ‘deny’, ‘defend’ and ‘deposit’ were written on the shell casings, which was a clear attack on healthcare practices.

Thompson lived in a $1 million mansion in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a mile from the home of his wife Paulette, from whom he was divorced.