Here's an update from a story from last week obviously last week we covered the fact that the CEO of United Healthcare
Was shot in Midtown Manhattan a little over a week ago
For reasons that at the time no one knew oh my god. Ah, so a major update they caught him
Well, sorry
For legal reasons they have allegedly
Found the shooter the alleged shooter whose name is Luigi Mangione
Has been charged with first degree murder for the death of UHC CEO Brian Thompson
He was captured in Pennsylvania after being dime down under McDonald's where they had stopped the Greyhound for everybody to get off and eat
On his person they found eight thousand dollars in cash two thousand dollars in foreign currency multiple fake IDs
his US passport a 3d printed firearm a 3d printed silencer and
A notebook and manifesto
Supposedly explaining why he did what he did if you're interested in reading his whole manifesto
It's not very long. It's only like 276 words
It's very thing for a while the major news outlets weren't publishing it Ken Clippenstein who's a great journalist
He got a hold of it and published the entire thing which now kind of opened the floodgates on publishing it
His online
Profile is interesting
This guy he's got a bachelor's and a master's from Penn in engineering
Right. He worked at fire axis games. He's worked at a bunch of tech companies
He's he's kind of if you look at his Goodreads profile. He's almost in that AI crypto tech bro space, right?
Supposedly what may have happened is apparently he had a back surgery
Right and there may be something with that
Okay. Yeah, cuz he was like a he was like a plumber and he was bent over a lot
There was a meme on tiktok about Mario going to rescue Luigi. Um, yeah
He seems like he's very online
He apparently dropped off the grid about six months ago
Like there were messages like DMs on his Twitter that people found a people like hey, are you gonna be in my wedding like?
He just
Gone so
Again, he has this is all alleged. He has not been convicted by a jury of his peers
God knows if they're gonna be able to convict a guy
Yeah
Here's the other interesting piece a couple days before they caught him Eric Adams the mayor of New York was like we're closing in
We know his name and then after they caught him. They were like, yeah, he wasn't on our list of names
So the what that tells you this was legit somebody at the McDonald's are like that kind of looks like the picture
They called the cops the cops showed up like legit the NYPD and the FBI had no idea
None, they were not looking for this guy. I
Don't understand how he was IDed
Because the picture unless there's a different picture going around because the picture I saw I was like
Yep, that's a dude. That's a male. He has eyebrows see his smile
I don't so was this like person and McDonald's was like calling the police like five times a day be like he's here
He's I don't I don't understand
I think it was a combination of the pictures that were released from the McDonald's
It's a combination of before he's eating. He's wearing a mask. Oh
Right like a like a like a not an N95 but a surgical mask, right which most people don't do now
He took it off and he was wearing like out of a darker jacket had the big bushy eyebrows
And so I think they literally were just like could be you know
Did he did like the Batman thing where someone just like
Yeah
God
Okay, so I do I have like there's so many questions
I
Was watching documentary about the serial killer who was from the state of Washington
Killed a lot of people all over the United States
He was in the he was in the military and he would travel kill people and whatever
and
When there were questioning him
He was like, oh, yeah, like I also killed this person but like you're never going to find the stuff because I would like leave like I would take
Part of like the weapon and I would put it in like this dumpster and that dumpster like along the way
And my biggest question is like the 3d printing gun like I could see like yeah, don't throw the entire gun away
But why didn't he just like?
He's on a greyhound bus. Why didn't he ditch it when he ditched the monopoly money in the backpack
Well, I mean like or at least just slowly like lose some of it like
Throw okay in the in this trash can here's like the magazine boom and this trash can here's like this part of the gun right like I
Don't I don't like why like why would he still have and in my my opinion like what I what I think is like
He knew that eventually he would be caught and that's why he had like a man. I think so there was also supposedly a YouTube channel
Which by the way YouTube nuked
That had a time dot so when you go into the back end of YouTube you can time out when videos like you could set release times
I do it all the time and supposedly there was one about to pop
Right where he was gonna explain everything in YouTube nuked the channel
Before it had a chance to release
I so what this boils down to in my opinion is I think this guy is a very smart guy
But not a very good criminal
Right like he had enough foresight and stuff like that to kind of plan out and if you read his manifesto
He's like well, it was pretty easy with some social engineering. I did this this and this to family I was gonna be but
But
Again, I don't think he's like an experienced criminal
Who like in that moment is thinking like a criminal?
You know what I mean and again, there's also some argument to be made that he wanted to get caught
You know I I
Everything that he was doing was very like memeable to me like the the messages like on the shell casings the monopoly money
Then I mean I guess like the manifesto a little bit, but like everything like this wasn't a guy that was like
Focused really on getting away because I think if he was focused on getting away
Mm-hmm, he would like very quickly probably crossed over to Canada and then got a flight to another country
That doesn't extradite and then boom you would he would have vanished like I
don't I don't know I
Maybe he wanted to be caught maybe he knew he it was only a matter of time before he got caught in today's world
I'm not really sure. I mean, that's that's my best guess
Chat just said he planned his kill didn't plan his escape and I think that's I
Yeah, I think that's probably the closest thing to accurate
Obviously this story is not over the fact that they've they've captured him alive. They're working on extradition to New York
Because he's in Pennsylvania, so they got to go through a process
In Pennsylvania, he's been charged with weapons crimes and a bunch other like minor
Stuff that he did in Pennsylvania, but obviously New York City is gonna get the first bite at the Apple to prosecute this guy
He does have a defense attorney
He you know he will now avail himself of the criminal justice system
I do not
Envy the prosecutor that's got to do this and I guarantee you this prosecutor is
Praying to God he can get a deal
Yeah, he's not gonna but I
Wouldn't want to be the one that prosecuted this
This is gonna be very interesting. This is gonna be one of those trial this trial the century kind of deals
You know, I don't maybe since OJ. Have we not had a trial OJ Rodney King? I
Don't think I think this is one that that's gonna revive court TV. You know Casey Anthony, maybe like
You know like
Chas has to deal for what um
Basically, they're gonna try and convince him to plead guilty in in exchange for a smaller sentence, right?
It's first degree murder New York does not have the death penalty. I don't believe but let me I can actually look that up for you
Really quick
Does the city have the death penalty
Not currently
So
I mean, I'm sure he's looking at life in prison without possibility of parole so if you're the prosecutor like look dude
I'll give you
25 to 30 years, you know, these are young guys only like 26, you know, so you're you're gonna get out someday
You know
So if I'm the prosecutor I'm like look dude, I'll give you 25
To 35 years in exchange for a guilty plea
He's still gonna be over 50 before he gets out of prison
Yeah, you know, I don't know though like I
Killed a rich CEO elite person like again
I wouldn't want to take this to trial because I'd be worried about jury nullification. Oh, yeah a hundred percent, right?
The other thing is if he's suffering from chronic pain that can cause psychological conditions chronic back pain and stuff like that can drive you nuts
Right and again, you know, there's your defense. He's crazy. Oh
Gosh speaking about that. I think my favorite defense you can look this up
This is a true thing the tween the tweeky. Oh my god, Twinkie Twinkie the Twinkie defense
I will have to look that up
Essentially somebody said like they ate too much junk food too many Twinkies and then shot a
public I
think governor of
New York or something
Remember I like you got to reduce sentence because of the the Twinkie defense
Let us know what you guys think also we would be remiss if we didn't if we didn't touch on this
Social media has lots of conspiracy theories that this ain't even the guy that this is all the giant setup and that they're this
This guy is a fall guy because the the NYPD and the FBI doesn't want to admit that that this and that it's the completely
Wrong dude. It's not him
So I would be remiss if I didn't if I didn't touch on the conspiracy theories that this ain't it and
The real shooter still out there
Who knows but we're gonna find out cuz there's gonna be a very public trial very soon
It's gonna be real interesting again court TV might make a comeback. Good for you court TV
What what would we do without Nancy? Oh, who was it? It wasn't Nancy Mace
I keep thinking Nancy Mace because of the crazy lady in Congress
Who was the lady from court TV that did that she did all the Kansy the Casey Anthony stuff
Who got famous
Oh God, what was her name Nancy Grace?
Nancy Grace is gonna make a comeback
Just for this trial, it'll be great. Well, let us know what you think down in the comments below
Do you think it's the guy do you think they're gonna be able to convict him?
Do you think he's even to make it to the trial?
I don't know we're gonna find out