The high school classmates of the man accused in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson seem to have been impressed by his seduction skills, naming him “Best at Pick-up Lines.”
The senior yearbook of Luigi Mangione, 26, who was arrested on Monday, was highlighted in a TikTok posted by user @.bajablastfreeze69. The 11-second video documents two girls’ visit to Mangione’s $40,000-a-year prep school—the Gilman School, in Baltimore, Maryland—where he was the 2016 valedictorian.
The account that posted the clip has since been made private.
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The video shows the girls walking past Gilman’s sports fields, before cutting to a wall-mounted plaque memorializing the academy’s valedictorians, where they point out Mangione’s name.
The clip also highlights pages featuring Mangione ostensibly from the school’s 2016 yearbook. One is a full-page profile of the suspected killer, with his name, pictures alongside friends, and a brief reflection on his time at the school, which he described as “illuminating.”
“Mom and Dad: Thanks for dealing with me these past 18 years,” Mangione wrote. “I cannot thank you enough for supporting me along the way. I’ll admit, no matter how much I hated it at the time, your sending me to Gilman was the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Love you.”
Mangione also highlighted a number of “memories” from the school, which the page says he attended since the sixth grade: “MS recess soccer, daddy long flies, tie wars in CT20, Fresh/Soph soccer, Kelly, smash bros at MUN, the robotics engineering journal, AppRoar, foosball in the senior room, scooby snacks at retreat.”
His nicknames, according to the profile, included “Pepperoni,” “GI,” “Squeej,” and “30 Degrees.” Mangione’s senior quote was “Anoda day, anoda play,” which he attributed to the video game YouTuber dunkey.
The TikTok then cuts to another page with Mangione’s standard yearbook headshot—it seems to show that he was assigned the senior superlative “Best at Pick-up Lines.”
The final yearbook page featured in the clip shows Mangione, who would go on to study computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, intently operating a robot alongside other students.
Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania after a several-day manhunt for the man who shot and killed Thompson at close range in Midtown Manhattan. At the time of the arrest, he reportedly had on his person a gun, fake IDs, and a hand-scrawled note condemning the health insurance industry.
He was charged with Thompson’s murder and made his first court appearance, an arraignment hearing Monday evening.
