re: Luigi Mangione, 26, apprehended in Altoona, PA about UnitedHealthcare CEO murder

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And maybe it’s not so quick and easy like CSI tv shows like to portray it.

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You need to be driving home the fact that we know this patsy's entire life story less than 24 hours after he was apprehended, but we don't know a damn thing about the piece of shite who attempted to assassinate a former and future president months ago.

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Because this guy has a lengthy resume and was an "elite". He was valedictorian, popular, rich, well-educated, lived all over the world, and had a massive online presence on twitter, facebook, book reviews, linkedin, company websites, siblings social media, friends social media, etc.

And the idea we know nothing about Thomas Matthew Crooks is a fallacy. There is just less to know. The guy was a loser who did nothing with his life and never left where he was from. I'm sure his only "friends" were anonymous online gamers.

His entire bio on wiki is all there is to know about the loser.

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Thomas Matthew Crooks was born on September 20, 2003,[2] and grew up in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh.[4] Both of Crooks's parents are licensed professional counselors.[5] Recollections about him, including information about his life and personality, vary considerably.[6]

He attended Bethel Park High School.[7] He attempted to join the school's rifle club, participating in "preseason", but was such a bad shot he was considered "dangerous", being rejected from the team and asked not to come back.[8][9] He joined the National Technical Honor Society in 2021 while a junior in high school.[10] In 2022, he graduated with high honors and won a $500 "star award" from the National Math and Science Initiative.[11][12][13]

Classmates and school officials characterized him as being quiet; classmates said that he was often bullied for various reasons[2][3][12] including his quiet demeanor, body odor, as well as for wearing camouflage hunting outfits and surgical masks to school.[2][14][15]

He earned an associate degree in engineering science from the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, graduating two months before the shooting. He was employed as a dietary aide in a nursing home at the time of the shooting.[16][17][18][19] According to the nursing home, which is less than a mile away from where he lived, he had passed a background check and "performed his job without concern".[20] He had been accepted into both the University of Pittsburgh and Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Pennsylvania northwest of Pittsburgh and planned to attend the latter.[20][21]

He had a membership at a local shooting club for at least a year.[18]

Prior to the shooting, Crooks searched for images and public appearances of Trump, President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, and Catherine, Princess of Wales,[22][23][24] as well as for information regarding the Republican National Convention[25] and the Democratic National Convention.[26] He also searched the Internet for information on major depressive disorder and the Oxford High School shooting, with authorities finding an arrest photograph of Oxford shooter Ethan Crumbley on his phone.[26][27][28]

On July 6, the same day he registered for the rally, Crooks searched "how far was Oswald from Kennedy" in reference to former president John F. Kennedy and the gunman who assassinated him.[29] Crooks also searched for information on power plants and the attempted assassination of Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico. He used a number of aliases and encrypted communication accounts to buy firearm supplies and bomb-making material.[30] On July 12, 2024, Crooks went to a shooting range where he was a member to practice firing.[31]

He purchased over 50 rounds of ammunition and a ladder before going to the rally on July 13.[32] He requested the day off from work because he had "something to do", telling his co-workers that he would return the next day.[33] Hours before the shooting, Crooks's parents had called the police to report him as missing and expressed concern about his wellbeing.[34] On July 13, Crooks went to the Trump rally.[35] He climbed onto a building that was being used by police as a staging area.[36] Text messages from a police sniper indicate that the police were aware of him already 90 minutes before the shooting.[37][38] Using an AR-15–style rifle which his father had bought legally in 2013 and that was legally transferred to him in 2023,[30][39] Thomas shot Trump and injured his upper right ear[40] and also shot three adult male audience members;[41] one of them, 50-year-old Corey Comperatore, was killed.[42] Crooks was then killed by a member of the Secret Service Counter Sniper Team.[43][44] Bomb-making materials were found inside his vehicle and at his home, and a remote detonator was found on his body.[45] The FBI identified him as the shooter on July 14.[35]

Evidence on his political views remains inconclusive. In January 2021, he donated $15 to a voter turnout group with a Democratic platform. When he reached the voting age of 18 in September 2021, he registered to vote in Pennsylvania as a member of the Republican Party and remained registered as a Republican until his death.

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Likely just a suicidal loser that wanted to be famous with martyrdom, look at the bolded section.

Sometimes the answer isn't complicated. Depressed loser wants to die and wants to be remembered.

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Has to be incredibly stressful, I'm sure he'd barely slept since last week. Even if you had everything planned out at some point fatigue sets in and you stop thinking clearly.

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I will say that a McDonalds hashbrown does hit the spot when you're operating on a lack of sleep

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This is meaningless without knowing more details. If he has a billion in stock and routinely sells $15m a quarter would the above matter at all? Just because a lawsuit alledges reasons for something doesn’t mean it has any legitimacy. I could sue you for having sex with a monkey but it doesn’t make any of it true.

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Lol. Being richer doesn’t make it more legal to obfuscate critical information from the street as you sell off assets at artificially high prices, stealing from pensioners in the process to avoid losses of your own.

They’re guilty. Believe that. This pension fund isn’t dropping millions to litigate a baseless claim. They failed to disclose critical info to the street and they sold the shares—lots of shares, ~$120Mm between the 3 of them

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Brian Thompson sold $12m in shares, I haven't seen $120m anywhere.

And he sold them at $512 a share. UNH is currently trading at $560 a share.

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Brian Thompson sold $12m in shares, I haven't seen $120m anywhere.

And he sold them at $512 a share. UNH is currently trading at $560 a share.

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Exactly. I keep saying this. I don't see how they are guilty of anything. Its not like an Enron deal where the stock tanked. The stock is way up since they did anything.

I'm sure what they did was intentional and illegal, but I don't see given the current state of the company stock they are found guilty.

ETA: Lol, DV away. If their intention was to sell before the stock tanked, the stock never tanked. So there's no proof that they were selling to prevent their own personal losses.