• Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    13 days ago

    The FBI has arrested and named a suspect. Luigi Mangione. Normally I’d be shy about sharing the name this early, but it’s already widely reported and looks pretty clear cut.

    I looked over what is presumably his social media (before it’s inevitably(?) deleted), and what stood out to me was how normal it is. Some bad takes for sure, and a few man-o-sphere retweets, but nothing he wrote jumps out to me as particularly radicalized or inauthentic. The only direct mention of health problems is an x-ray of some metal rods from a back surgery.

    Apparently there’s a manifesto:

    A multi-page, handwritten document was recovered from the person of interest arrested in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Tuesday.

    I wonder if we’ll get to see it, the FBI is surely worried about copycats given the internet’s reaction.


    Edit: welp apparently he gave a positive goodreads review to Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto…

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      13 days ago

      Also I think everyone here has noticed how much money, time, and effort went into catching this guy compared to, say, any other shooter in New York in 2024.