mcw casino Police Say Suspect in UnitedHealthcare Shooting Saw Himself as a Hero
The suspect in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive saw himself as a hero fighting a corrupt health insurance industrymcw casino, the police said in an internal report in which they also warned about the possible threat posed by social media posts that praised the killing and encouraged similar targeted violence.
The internal report, obtained by The New York Times on Tuesday, described parts of the three-page manifesto found with the suspect at the time of his arrest Monday in Pennsylvania. It said the 26-year-old suspect, Luigi Mangione, saw himself as fighting a “parasitic” health insurance industry.
Mr. Mangione is accused of fatally shooting Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel last week. He was arrested on Monday after customers at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., said he looked similar to a man the police were searching for in connection with the killing.
The internal police report said that Mr. Mangione “appeared to view the targeted killing of the company’s highest-ranking representative as a symbolic takedown and a direct challenge to its alleged corruption and ‘power games,’” and that he “views himself as a hero of sorts who has finally decided to act upon such injustices.”
“Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming,” the manifesto said, according to the report.
Police officials also expressed concern that the attack could inspire violence against similar executives or other extreme behaviormcw casino, noting that members of the public had celebrated the shooting online and might have seen the suspect as “a martyr and an example to follow.”