Luigi Mangione Ethnicity

Luigi Mangione is an American viral sensation. He made it to the news for allegedly being involved in the shooting of Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

Quick Info

Real Name	Luigi Mangione
Age	26 [as of 2024]
Birthplace	Maryland, USA
Education	University of Pennsylvania
Height	6 feet 1 inch [approx.]
Weight	N/A

Ethnicity

Luigi Mangione is of Italian heritage. He holds American citizenship.

His mother’s name is Kathleen Mangione. She runs a funeral home business.

He has two sisters namely MariaSanta and Luciana Mangione.

Maria earned a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Using her experience in this subject, she cited about 147 publications per Google Scholar.

Luciana, on the other hand, is an artist by profession. She is an International Business graduate from the College of Charleston. She also worked in retail and supply chain previously.

Major media sources report that he is related to Maryland State Delegate Nino Mangione. According to The Baltimore Sun, his paternal grandfather is Nicholas Mangione, a real estate developer.

Personal Life

Mangione is a high school graduate from Gilman School in Baltimore. Upon finishing high school in 2016, he joined the University of Pennsylvania and completed his bachelor’s and master’s in computer science in the next four years.

He was arrested on 9 December 2024 on murder charges. He was taken into custody by the NYPD from a local McDonald’s in Altoona.

Luigi was tipped off to the police by a McDonald’s employee who identified him. He was carrying fake IDs, a 3D-printed gun and suppressor, and a manifesto during his arrest.

Career

Luigi Mangione started working as an employee after finishing his graduation. Before this, in 2014, he co-founded a game development company named AppRoar Studios. He was the lead programmer and handled game design, SMM, and team management.

The company was shut down only after eight months. While he was pursuing higher studies, he worked as an intern and teaching assistant. Also, he founded UPenn’s club UPGRADE in 2016 and headed it for almost four years.

He joined TrueCar as a Data Engineer I in November 2020. A year later, he was promoted to Data Engineer II followed by a promotion to the role of Data Engineer III in October 2022.

With respect to his role, he overlooked various tasks integrating new API, building Druid dashboards, and developing a pipeline for ingesting data job metrics. While he didn’t update his LinkedIn profile, it is reported that he hasn’t worked in the company since 2023.

Unknown Facts

He was reportedly missing for a while and his mother filed a complaint in San Francisco.
He is active on major social platforms, especially X (formerly Twitter). Following his arrest, he gained hundreds and thousands of followers on the platform with his current follower count being over 300k.