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By Martha McHardy
US News Reporter
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Luigi Mangione is under heightened scrutiny as details of his personal life emerge, including activity on the dating app Tinder.
Mangione, 26, was arrested on Monday and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive Brian Thompson, who was fatally shot last week in New York City. He is expected to plead not guilty.
Following the shooting, it emerged that Luigi Mangione is from a prominent Maryland real-estate family. His grandfather, Nicholas Mangione, was a self-made real-estate developer, owning country clubs, nursing homes and a radio station before he died in 2008, according to an obituary in The Baltimore Sun.
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But that was not the first thing to take the internet by storm. After his arrest in a Pennsylvania McDonald's, photos of Mangione exploded all over social media platforms, with the 26-year-old becoming a sex symbol for some.
Mangione's appearance also attracted attention from late-night show hosts, with After Midnight host Taylor Tomlinson describing him as "sexy."
"All of the other late night shows already covered the fact that everyone thinks the shooter is hot," Tomlinson said, "But I feel confident that I'm the only late night host who can honestly say: 'Would.'"
She continued: "It turns out he actually got caught because an employee recognized him and phoned the police. Do you have any idea how attractive you have to be for a McDonald's employee to be like, 'Wait, okay, you being in here is suspicious.'"
"I'm surprised that anyone turned this guy in considering all the thirsting after him online. I mean every post about this guy just straight-up calls him sexy," said Tomlinson, showing a tweet referring to Mangione as a "person of interest in more ways than one."
But the adulation has sparked anger from others, including Fox News host Lauren Ingraham. "Liberal wackos are treating suspected killer Luigi Mangione as a folk hero, first by salivating over his Italian good looks," she said, playing a video from one Instagram user who had commented, "Mama Mia, does [Luigi] need a Mario?"
"These implicit and explicit efforts to treat the alleged killer with compassion and understanding, to elevate the profile of Luigi Mangione, to celebrate him as a martyr—what it does, it simply puts more Americans at risk," Ingraham said.
Amid the frenzy, even his apparent Tinder profile has made it into the public, which features the widely shared topless picture of Mangione.
According to the website Cheatbuster, which allow users to search for real time and historic Tinder profiles, Mangione was last active on the app in December 2022 after joining in November 2021.
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On his profile, he lists his interests as travel, reading, hiking and working out. He also lists his alma mater as the University of Pennsylvania, where he gained a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science, according to the school, and founded a video game development club.
The profile is no longer active or has been set to private, according to Cheatbuster.
New York prosecutors filed a murder charge against Mangione late Monday, accusing him of killing Thompson, 50, while the executive was on his way to an annual investor conference in midtown Manhattan last week. Mangione also faces forgery and weapons charges in Pennsylvania.
While no motive for the shooting has been established, a handwritten manifesto purportedly found with Mangione at the time of his arrest indicates that Thompson's killing may have been motivated by anger about the health insurance industry, with the suspect allegedly justifying the homicide by writing: "I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming."
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Elsewhere in the manifesto, Mangione said the "US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy."
Friends of the 26-year-old toldHuffPost and The New York Times that he had suffered from ongoing debilitating back pain that had prevented him from surfing and impaired his romantic life, while a Goodreads account apparently belonging to Mangione reveals he read books about back pain and spine surgery.
"He said his lower vertebrae were almost like a half-inch off, and I think it pinched a nerve. Sometimes he'd be doing well and other times not," said RJ Martin, the founder of a group house in Honolulu where Mangione had lived.
"He knew that dating and being physically intimate with his back condition wasn't possible. I remember him telling me that, and my heart just breaks."
Approximately 16 million adults in the United States suffer from chronic back pain that disrupts their daily lives. Back pain is one of the most prevalent medical issues in the nation and is recognized by the World Health Organization as the leading cause of disability globally.
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