The Life and Mystery of Luigi Mangione

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A pizza order, a thank you, or a death threat — Giuseppe Mantova didn’t know which awaited him as he answered the call the Wednesday evening before Christmas. The phone at Vito’s Pizza had been ringing more than usual that week, thanks to an illustration Mantova’s 30-year-old daughter had taped above the cash register of Luigi Mangione as a saint, wearing an emerald-green robe with a sun haloed behind his dark hair.

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Vito’s sits in a strip mall in Towson, Maryland, the hometown of Mangione, who’d been arrested weeks earlier in connection with the early-morning murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City street. News of the crime rocked the Baltimore suburb where Mangione grew up, back when Mantova knew him as just another teenager who came in after school to order a chicken-parm slice.

Mantova’s daughter tells me she taped up the illustration as a statement against the “corrupt health care system in America.” After a customer posted a photo of the St. Luigi display on social media and it went viral, Mantova and his employees were bombarded with calls. Some echoed the woman’s sentiments, accusing Mantova of supporting murder. One man called with a death threat.

But along with the angry calls and Facebook messages, Vito’s has been praised and thanked for hanging the illustration. Some callers want to talk about their negative experiences with health-insurance claims and denials. Some say they know Mangione personally; a supposed family friend from California and a college classmate from Chicago both called, wanting to pay for pizzas that Mantova could hand out to people in the restaurant for free. (Mantova turned them down but thanked them for the offer.)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/life-mystery-luigi-mangione-000000274.html

[Skittles]

1. fuck that gun humping POS psycho coward killer

[SheltieLover]

2. I've not heard anything at all about his trials, has anyone?

A friend suggested that there have been other such acts, but the media is not covering them, and that the media is not covering Luigi's trial.

Nothing with this ricidulously spineless media would surprise me.

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

[Skittles]

3. maybe his victim could have been given the same consideration

instead of being ambushed and shot in the back