Colleague of murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO ‘disgusted’ by Luigi Mangione fans
A former colleague of Brian Thompson, who was gunned down in Manhattan a year ago, expressed dismay at the admiration for the man accused of killing the former chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.
Terrie Martin, an independent Medicare broker from Texas, who met Thompson just months before his death, said she was shocked by how the shooting, and Mangione’s subsequent arrest, believing it became overshadowed by fanfare centered on the alleged killer.
She said: “It was the Luigi show.” Martin admitted she was particularly appalled by the apparent celebration of Mangione’s supporters and the way the case was portrayed publicly.
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She said: “The whole thing just disgusts me. The way it was handled, the way it was portrayed, the way everybody jumped to celebrate when they weren’t even thinking this guy was a father, a husband, a boss or anything. That was just appalling.”
According to prosecutors, Thompson, 50, was shot and killed on December 4 last year outside the Hilton Midtown hotel in Manhattan, where he was headed for an investor event.
Mangione, 26 at the time, was arrested days later at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, more than 200 miles away, after a massive manhunt. Police said officers found a 3D-printed pistol, a silencer, and fake IDs in a backpack belonging to Mangione.
Federal prosecutors say Mangione harbored deep hostility toward the healthcare insurance industry, and investigators are pointing to that animosity as the likely motive for the fatal shooting.
But Martin painted a very different picture of Thompson, describing him as grounded, humble and earnest. She recalled that when she met him “everyone called him BT,” adding: “They didn’t call him Brian or Mr. Thompson. I’m talking about regional managers.”
When she learned who he was, she was taken aback, not by admiration, but by his modesty. “If you had met him anywhere like in line at a grocery store or a sporting event, you would never have guessed he was a CEO. Never. He was just such a really nice, humble, everyday kinda guy,” she told the NY Post.
Martin said what angers her most is the wave of support for Mangione among fringe groups, including supporters who treat him as a folk hero rather than a murder suspect.
She added: “I’m having a very hard time understanding what their thought process is and their justification for what happened to Brian Thompson.”
As pre-trial hearings in New York continue on the one-year anniversary of the killing, the contrast between the quiet memory of a respected industry leader and the spectacle surrounding his accused killer continues to trouble those who knew Thompson.
It comes in a bad week for Donald Trump, with his health diagnosis exposed by a doctor after alarming MRI fears.
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