The man linked to the shocking shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last week in New York City apparently spent a summer in college working at Stanford University as a counselor and teaching assistant for a program for high school students.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested on a gun charge Monday after being spotted at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. Authorities said he was found in possession of a weapon consistent with the gun used to shoot Brian Thompson, 50, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, although Mangione has not been arrested or charged in connection with the shooting as of noon Monday. The New York Police Department said that Mangione has ties to San Francisco.
wLuigi Mangione, 26, was arrested on a gun charge Monday after being spotted at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. Authorities said he was found in possession of a weapon consistent with the gun used to shoot Brian Thompson, 50, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. (Facebook)Mangione apparently worked as a head counselor and artificial intelligence teaching assistant for Stanford’s Pre-Collegiate Studies Program from June 2019 to August 2019, according to a LinkedIn page under his name. Stanford’s pre-college program hosts summer educational programs for middle and high school students from across the U.S., according to its website.
Dee Mostofi, assistant vice president of external communications at Stanford, confirmed Monday that “a person by the name of Luigi Mangione was employed as a head counselor under the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies program between May and September of 2019.”
This appears to be the summer between his third and fourth years at the University of Pennsylvania, according to his LinkedIn.
In the description, Mangione said that the job consisted of teaching artificial intelligence to high school students, designing lesson plans, supervising 40 students in residential life and leading a team of residential staff, according to the LinkedIn.
Mangione posted a set of photos depicting his time at Stanford on what appears to be his Instagram account on Aug. 25, 2019. In one photo, he poses with other Pre-Collegiate Studies counselors. In another, he poses on the beach, and in another, he stands with his arms out triumphantly on top of a large rock. He captioned the post, “I was getting paid in half these photos.”
On the Linkedin page, it says Mangione worked for TrueCar, which has a car-buying website, in Santa Monica, beginning in late 2020. He was listed as a data engineer. It is unclear if it was a remote job.
A company spokesperson told the Southern California News Group: “While we generally don’t comment on personnel matters, we can confirm that Luigi Mangione has not been an employee of our company since 2023.”
Also according to the LinkedIn page, Mangione appears to have earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering and computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with both in 2020.
On what appears to be Mangione’s Goodreads profile, he gave a four-star review to “Industrial Society and Its Future,” the book form of the lengthy manifesto written by Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski. Over almost two decades, Kaczynski sent untraceable bombs to random targets, killing three people and injuring some two dozen others, according to the FBI.
Kaczynski’s book claims that the Industrial Revolution was a “disaster for the human race” — its consequences “have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering,” according to its description on Goodreads.
In what appears to be his review of the book, Mangione wrote that it is “simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.
“(Kaczynski) was a violent individual – rightfully imprisoned – who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”
Southern California News Group reporter Nathaniel Percy contributed to this report.