In Lieu of a Cake with a File, Send Old Bay

There is now a suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione.

He's a Marylander and a Baltamorean, he went to the posh private Gilman School in Roland Park, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, seriously Ivy League.

According to my eldest, he was the friend of a friend theirs on social media.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Weird, to say the least.

Luigi Mangione, the online version of him, was an Ivy League tech enthusiast who flaunted his tanned, chiseled looks in beach photos and party pictures with blue-blazered frat buddies.

He was the valedictorian of a prestigious Baltimore prep school who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Pennsylvania and served as a head counselor at a pre-college program at Stanford University.

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The police now believe that Mr. Mangione, 26, is the masked gunman who calmly took out a pistol equipped with a suppressor on a Midtown Manhattan street last week and assassinated Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare. He was arrested in Altoona, Pa., on Monday after an employee at a McDonald’s recognized him and called the police. Officers said they found him with fake identification, a weapon similar to the one seen in video of the killing and a manifesto decrying the health care industry.

Later on Monday, Mr. Mangione was charged in Manhattan with murder, along with additional counts of forgery and illegal weapons possession. And in the hours after his apprehension, his baffling journey from star student to murder suspect began to come into focus.

Mr. Mangione was in regular contact with friends and family until about six months ago when he suddenly and inexplicably stopped communicating with them. He had been suffering from a painful back injury, friends said, and then went dark, prompting anxious inquiries from relatives to his friends: Had anyone heard from him?

My guess is that he got f%$#ed over by UHC, and he f%$#ed back violently.

His family owns a right-wing radio station, and his cousin is a Republican in the Maryland House of Delegates.

In any case, if you want to send him a care package, I would suggest Old Bay Seasoning in its original packaging.

Trust me, it's a Maryland thing.

There was a part of me hoping that he would get away with it.