Luigi Mangione planned mass casualty event, killed UnitedHealthcare CEO for the headlines: court docs

Luigi Mangione's "manifesto" that rails against the healthcare industry in the murder case of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson revealed the reason that he wanted to target Thompson and that he had previously planned to carry out a bombing "catastrophe," court documents said.

According to the New York Post, court documents observed by the outlet shed light on the writings from the notebook found in Mangione's backpack when he was arrested at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania a few days after Thompson was shot at point-blank range in the back in New York City. The notebook stated that Mangione was looking to make "headlines" and he chose to "wack the CEO" of the healthcare giant.

"So say you want to rebel against the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel. Do you bomb the HQ? No. Bombs=terrorism,” Mangione scrawled in the notebook. In the writings, he added that he should instead “wack [sic] the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted and precise and doesn’t risk innocents."

He had written in other portions of the manifesto that UnitedHealthcare, as well as other health insurance companies, should be targets because the companies "[extract] human life force for money." Mangione had floated the idea of launching a mass casualty event, but he was "glad — in a way — that [he] procrastinated because it allowed [him] to learn more about UHC."

“In MD would’ve been an unjustified catastrophe that would be perceived mostly as sick, but more importantly unhelpful,” Mangione added in the manifesto weighing an attack in Maryland, his home state. Although it was not clear what he had in mind for a planned mass casualty event, he thought that "innocents" would be killed. "The point is made in the news headline Insurance CEO killed at annual investors conference," Mangione said in the writings. "It conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming."

He said what public reception could be like if a CEO such as Thompson were killed, “Members of the public can focus on greed, on the event through reasonable acceptable discussion." In addition to talking about his planned mass casualty event as well as the plans to kill the health insurance CEO, Mangione praised the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, as well as gave criticism.

"For example, Ted K makes some good points on the future of humanity, but to make his point he indiscriminately mailbombs innocents. Normies categorize him as an insane serial killer, focus on the act/atrocities themselves, and dismiss his ideas,” he wrote.

In addition to the manifesto, Mangione declared that he was working alone in the act in a note that he had when he was taken into custody, “To the Feds, I’ll keep this short because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial, some elementary social engineering, basic [computer aided design], and a lot of patience."

"I do apologize for any strife or trauma, but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming," the note added.

Lawyers for Mangione have attempted to exclude the writings found in the notebook as evidence on the grounds that he was not read his constitutional rights when he was taken into custody.