Life in Hawaii was a beach for Luigi Mangione, before the 26-year-old computer engineer flipped a switch, went off the grid and allegedly fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown. Killed.
Exclusive photos obtained by The Post show the murder suspect lounging in the sun, dining with tan friends and even in a penthouse at Surfbreak, a “co-living” space in Honolulu near Waikiki. Shows him having fun with a pair of beauties during his time out. , where he will live from January to June in 2022, paying $2,000 per month.
In one photo, the murder suspect sits next to a smiling woman, Tracy Lay, with his arm draped over a couch behind her. Another photo shows Mangione tickling the girl’s friend and another woman in the hallway.
“There was no visible simmering anger,” Surfbreak spokesman Josiah Ryan told The Post.
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Le, a data engineer in New York City, posted the photos to her Instagram account in April 2022, with the caption, “So many people I love in one photo.”
Mangione “was the only name whose FaceTime call I took. He was one of my best, closest, most trusted friends,” she wrote in the caption of one tiktok videoWhich shows Mangione — who is now accused of murdering 50-year-old Brian Thompson on the streets of Midtown — holding a mochi ice cream while giggling with Lay’s at a grocery store.
The Post contacted several individuals depicted in the pictures, including Le, none of whom responded to requests for comment or interviews.
NYPD is Finding out if there was a back injury in July 2023 Mangione’s apparent hatred of the medical industry was fueled.
Mangione, who was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, PA, after a five-day search, was found with a three-page manifesto accusing “parasitic” health insurance companies of corporate greed.
The accused killer is being held without bail at the State Correctional Institution in Huntington, PA, and is fighting for an extradition order to send him back to New York. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to many of the charges against him, including murder and illegal gun possession.
His prison cell is a far cry from the alleged murderer’s beginning. Mangione’s grandfather, family patriarch Nick Mangione Sr., built a network of businesses that ranged from developing and owning local resorts and country clubs to nursing homes and a radio station in Baltimore.
There, he attended the $35,000-a-year Gilman School where he became valedictorian, but appeared socially shy.
“I don’t remember him ever having a serious girlfriend. He was very shy around girls,” a classmate told The Post on condition of anonymity.
painful heaven
Mangione, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, was working remotely as a data engineer at California-based auto website TrueCar Inc. in 2022 when he moved to Surfbreak for relief from his chronic pain.
“He said living in Hawaii might be good for his health concerns. I heard there was something wrong with his mind,'” Ryan recalled. Mangione was background-checked and paid his way to Surfbreak, where he had his own room and roommates in a high-rise building. Shared a kitchen and living space.
“People liked him a lot. He wasn’t a big partner or anything like that. He loved traveling and working with people. He helped start a book club,” Ryan said.
But, the Maryland native’s medical issues reached a worse position According to RJ Martin, Joe suffered pressure on his back during a group surfing lesson, which worsened his already injured lower back. Mangione in 2022,
“His spine was kind of misaligned,” Martin told The New York Times.
“They said his lower vertebrae were off about a half-inch, and I think that pinched a nerve.”
To get relief from pain, Mangione began practicing yoga with Honolulu-based yoga teacher Dorian Wright between 2022 and 2023. He remembers that Mangione’s range of motion was limited during the backbend posture.
Wright said, “He was very clear when he told me where his back injury was… He was receptive to the fact that I was helping him overcome his injury.”
According to Wright, another teacher at the studio named Summer immediately recognized the University of Pennsylvania graduate she matched with from a Tinder profile.
“One of our teachers contacted him on Tinder. She was taking my class at the same time as him. ‘I wanted to go up to her and ask her on a date, but I was so nervous,’ Wright recalled of Mangione’s dating profile. Where he was seen crouching while smiling in a navy hoodie with an active volcano in the background. Of his profile photo.
Mangione lists traveling, reading, hiking and working out as her interests.
“He’s a tall good-looking guy — he’s the only person I know who he (Mangione) was potentially going to date,” Wright told The Post.
But life wasn’t all sunshine for the brunette bachelor. In July, 2023, Mangione posted on Reddit about slipping on a piece of paper, writing that she was having pain sitting up and that her leg muscles were shaking. He complained of numbness in his waist.
It appears that Martin told The Times Mangione’s sex life sidelined, Because “he knew that dating and being physically intimate was not possible due to his back condition.”
The back pain became so severe that he consulted doctors and eventually quit his job in 2023 to spend time reading and doing yoga.
It is unclear whether Mangione was covered for health care during that time. One NYPD officer confirmed this on Thursday The Ivy League graduate was never a customer of UnitedHealthcare medical insurance.
free fall
He continued reading about big pharma and the medical industry, including “Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery” and “Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Diseases.” Books like. – and how to fight it.” The titles were added to their virtual bookshelf on Goodreads between May 2022 and February 2023.
The reading list was also accompanied by Mangione’s handwritten notes in which he detailed suffering from spondylolisthesis, A condition that causes a vertebra to slip or shift into a lower vertebra.
He traveled from Hawaii to the East Coast for spinal fusion surgery in July, 2023, later sending a photo of his spinal X-ray to Martin on August 10, The Times reports.
Mangione returned to Hawaii after surgery, and Moved into a 1,000-square-foot, two-bedroom Records show the apartment in February, although it is unclear whether he lived alone.
He became more radical, praising Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s 35,000-word manifesto in a four-star review on his Goodreads page, in which he described the domestic terrorist responsible for a series of bombings over a 17-year period, so that To draw attention to the dependence of the society. Technology – A “Political Revolutionary.”
After March this year he stopped responding to messages from friends and even his family regarding his movements and whereabouts between then and the December 4 shooting.
A concerned friend texted in June, “Where in the world are you?” No answer.
Mangione’s family reported her missing in San Francisco on November 18. A few days later, according to sources, he flew to New York City on a Greyhound bus from Atlanta to scope out the scene and allegedly carry out his twisted plan to kill Thompson with a 3-D printed ghost gun he had in his possession Can go.
“He was in a lot of pain and needed a lot of help,” another high school classmate told The Post.
“Of course I’m surprised but there was a darkness to him that was always there.”
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