Life in Hawaii was a beach for Luigi Mangione, before the privileged year-old computer engineer flipped a switch, went off the grid, and allegedly gunned UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown. In one photo, the murder suspect cuddled up next to a grinning woman, Tracy Le, with his arm draped behind her on a couch.
Another snap shows Mangione tickling the gal pal and another woman in a hallway. The Post reached out to a number of the individuals depicted in the pictures, including Le, none of whom responded to a request for comment or an interview. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to the slew of charges against him, including murder and illegal gun possession.
Mangione, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, was working remotely as a data engineer at California-based auto website TrueCar Inc. He loved hiking and doing things with people. Martin, who became friends with Mangione in Seeking pain relief, Mangione began practicing yoga with Dorian Wright, a Honolulu-based yoga teacher, between and Another teacher at the studio, named Summer, instantly recognized the University of Pennsylvania grad from his Tinder profile which she had matched with, according to Wright.
She was taking my class at the same time as he was. In July , Mangione took to Reddit to post about slipping on a piece of paper, noting it hurt to sit down and that his leg muscles were twitching. He reported numbness in his groin. The back pain became so severe, that he consulted with doctors and eventually quit his job in to spend time reading and doing yoga. The titles were added to his virtual bookshelf on Goodreads between May and February The reading list also linked to handwritten notes by Mangione that detailed he was suffering from spondylolisthesis, a condition that causes a vertebra to slip or shift into the vertebra below.
After March this year he stopped responding to messages from friends and then even his own family and his movement and whereabouts between then and the Dec. Just days later he arrived in New York City on a Greyhound bus from Atlanta, according to sources, to scope out the scene and allegedly carry out his twisted plan to shoot down Thompson with a ghost gun he had 3-D printed.
