On 9 December 2024, five days after the targeted fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the suspect, 26-year-old Maryland native Luigi Mangione, was apprehended in Altoona, Pennsylvania and charged with second-degree murder and numerous other offenses. According to the manifesto discovered during the arrest, Mangione despaired of the US

America is a made for television movie that the world is forced to watch. Things that most countries take for granted, such as healthcare, not only have a tendency to be nonsensical here, but the solutions to fix the flaws must be as dramatic as the systems themselves are absurd.