Luigi Mangione had a relationship with the Santa Monica, Stanford, record show

A 26-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with the slaying of a UnitedHealthcare executive on the streets of New York who once worked for the Santa Monica company and spent time at Stanford University, records show.

Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested by law enforcement in Pennsylvania following a manhunt after Brian Thompson, 50, was killed in an early morning ambush last week. At a news conference announcing the arrest, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Mangione was born and raised in Maryland and has ties to California with a last known address in Honolulu.

He was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., after someone recognized him, police said.

According to public records, Mangione spent time at Stanford University in 2019 and once worked for Santa Monica-based TrueCar, a digital car marketplace.

TrueCar did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A spokesperson for Stanford University confirmed that a person named Luigi Mangione was hired as a senior advisor under the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies program between May and September of 2019.

Before Stanford, he studied computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. His LinkedIn and GitHub profiles showed a string of entrepreneurship: Mangione founded a video game club and later developed early games.

Mangione was valedictorian of the class of 2016 at Gilman School, an all-boys private school in Baltimore, according to the Baltimore Sun.

CNN reported that the police found a document when they arrested a suspect who was allegedly insulting the health care system.

“These insects have arrived,” said CNN reporting the document. “I apologize for any inconvenience and inconvenience, but it had to be done.”

The Times could not verify the document or its origin.