Luigi Mangione and the Making of a Modern Antihero
Briefly

He is from a wealthy and prominent Maryland family, the valedictorian of a prestigious private school, an Ivy League graduate. His family and friends speak of him fondly, and they worried about him when he fell off the grid, some months ago.
In other words, a typical-enough diet for a contemporary twentysomething computer-science guy, and certainly not the stuff of alarm. He is, by consensus, handsome, and jacked.
Last week, Internet citizens were making dark, cathartic jokes about the fatal shooting, on December 4th, in Manhattan, of Brian Thompson, the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare.
Now that Mangione has been provisionally identified as Thompson's assailant, and has been arrested and charged with Thompson's murder.
Read at The New Yorker
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