UnitedHealthcare did not immediately respond to a request for comment from . In a statement provided to other media outlets, a company spokesperson said: “Our hope is that today’s apprehension brings some relief to Brian’s family, friends, colleagues and many others affected by this unspeakable tragedy. We thank the authorities and will continue to work with them on this investigation. We ask that everyone respect the family’s privacy as they grieve.”
A search of Mangione’s online footprint shows the image of a typical 20-something, including accounts on Pinterest, Skype, Instagram and Facebook. In X, what appears to be your account featured an image of what appears to be an x-ray after major spinal cord surgery, one of the few explicit references to medical care in his online account history.
A GoodReads account featuring a photo of the suspect who also shares a username with an email address and a GitHub account linked to Mangione includes several books related to back pain, including Twisted: Outsmart the Back Pain Industry and Get on the Road to Recovery. Other titles include peasant elegyby US Vice President-elect JD Vance, and “Industrial Society and Its Future,” the anti-technology diatribe known colloquially as the Unabomber Manifesto. The GoodReads account has since been set to private.
Mangione, who was valedictorian from his private high school in the Baltimore area, appears to have been an avid gamer, with dozens of game titles listed on an Xbox Live account who shares his name. In 2018, Mangione described himself as passionate about creating video games and helped found a game development club at Penn that about 60 students quickly joined, according to a since-deleted article in the Penn News Center. the university.
On a GitHub page believed to belong to Mangione, he shared code repositories that focused on machine learning and human-computer interaction. Among them is a project titled “Meccanoid-Imitate”, which apparently uses Arduino (an open-source, easy-to-use electronics platform) and a programmable Meccanoid robot. The repository, last updated four years ago, includes animated GIFs showing Mangione in what appears to be a classroom, moving his arms while a mechanoid robot behind him mimics his gestures.
Updated at 5:30 pm EST, December 9, 2024, to include additional information about Mangione’s work history.