What we know about the NY shooting suspect - an IT graduate found with a ghost gun, $10,000 and fake ID

A illustration is emerging of the 26-year-old antheral charged with execution implicit past week's fatal shooting of United Healthcare's main executive, Brian Thompson, successful New York City.

Police announced connected Monday they had arrested Luigi Mangione connected firearms charges aft helium was recognised astatine a McDonald's successful Altoona, Pennsylvania.

The Baltimore, Maryland, autochthonal was recovered successful possession of a alleged shade gun, a mostly untraceable firearm, and a three-page handwritten papers that indicated "motivation and mindset", officials said.

Just hours aft his arrest, Mr Mangione was charged by New York investigators with execution and 4 different counts.

Here's each that we've learned truthful acold astir the suspect.

Mr Mangione was calved and raised successful Maryland and has ties to San Francisco, California, according to New York Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.

He has nary anterior arrests successful New York and his past erstwhile code was successful Honolulu, Hawaii, constabulary said.

He attended a private, all-boys precocious schoolhouse successful Baltimore, called the Gilman School, according to schoolhouse officials. Mr Mangione was named arsenic the valedictorian, which is usually the pupil with the highest world achievements successful a class.

In a statement, the schoolhouse called the concern "deeply distressing".

A erstwhile classmate, Freddie Leatherbury, told the Associated Press quality bureau that Mr Mangione came from a affluent family, adjacent by that backstage school's standards.

"Quite honestly, helium had everything going for him," Mr Leatherbury said.

Mr Mangione comes from a salient household successful the Baltimore country whose businesses see a state nine and nursing homes, according to section media.

Shortly aft the fishy was charged, Republican authorities lawmaker Nino Mangione - believed to beryllium his relative - released a connection saying the household is "shocked and devastated".

"We connection our prayers to the household of Brian Thompson and we inquire radical to commune for each involved", the connection read, signing disconnected arsenic "The Mangione Family".

Mr Mangione is besides a postgraduate of the University of Pennsylvania, wherever helium received a bachelor's and master's grade successful machine science, according to the school, and founded a video crippled improvement club.

A person who attended the Ivy League assemblage astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Mr Mangione described him arsenic a "super normal" and "smart person".

Mr Mangione was employed arsenic a information technologist for TrueCar, a integer retailing website for caller and utilized cars, according to his societal media profiles. A institution spokesperson told the BBC helium had not worked determination since 2023.

According to the LinkedIn profile, Mr Mangione antecedently worked arsenic a programming intern for Firaxis, a video crippled developer.

Mr Mangione was taken into custody astatine a McDonald's aft a lawsuit informed an employee, who tipped disconnected authorities.

At the time, helium was successful possession of a achromatic shade weapon - the benignant that could beryllium assembled astatine location utilizing a 3D printer - a silencer and a loaded mag with six rounds of 9mm ammunition.

Police said helium was carrying respective IDs, including 1 with his existent individuality and different that was fake.

These IDs included a US passport and a fraudulent New Jersey ID that was utilized to cheque into the New York City hostel, wherever the fishy was seen earlier the shooting.

When helium was told helium would beryllium arrested if helium had lied astir his name, helium admitted helium was Luigi Mangione.

Asked wherefore helium lied, helium told officers "I intelligibly shouldn't have", according to tribunal papers.

He "became quiescent and started to shake" erstwhile asked if helium had precocious been to New York, according to the transgression ailment filed successful Pennsylvania.

Police accidental helium was besides recovered with 3 pages of handwritten documents successful which helium seemed to explicit "ill volition towards firm America".

The papers besides said "these parasites had it coming" and "I bash apologise for immoderate strife and trauma, but it had to beryllium done", a elder instrumentality enforcement authoritative told the New York Times.

Police said though his apprehension was "peaceful", helium has since stopped being cooperative.

Social media profiles supply immoderate imaginable clues astir Mr Mangione's thinking.

A idiosyncratic matching his sanction and photograph had an relationship connected Goodreads, a user-generated publication reappraisal site, wherever helium gave 4 stars to a substance called Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore Kaczynski – besides known arsenic the Unabomber manifesto.

Starting successful 1978, Kaczynski carried retired a bombing run that killed 3 radical and injured dozens of others, until helium was arrested successful 1996.

In his review, Mr Mangione wrote: "It's casual to rapidly and thoughtless[ly] constitute this disconnected arsenic the manifesto of a lunatic.

"He was a convulsive idiosyncratic - rightfully imprisoned - who maimed guiltless people.

"While these actions thin to beryllium characterized arsenic those of a brainsick luddite, however, they are much accurately seen arsenic those of an utmost governmental revolutionary."

His societal media profiles besides suggest that helium had fallen retired of interaction with household and friends successful caller months.

In a station connected X from October, idiosyncratic tagged an relationship believed to beryllium Mr Mangione's and wrote:

"Hey, are you ok? Nobody has heard from you successful months, and seemingly your household is looking for you."