Person of interest tied to shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO spent a summer working at Stanford – The Mercury News

The man linked to the shocking shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last week in New York City apparently spent a summer in college working at Stanford University as a counselor and teaching assistant for a program for high school students.

Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested on a gun charge Monday after being spotted at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. Authorities said he was found in possession of a weapon consistent with the gun used to shoot Brian Thompson, 50, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, although he Mangione not been arrested or charged in the shooting as of noon Monday. The New York Police Department said that Mangione has ties to San Francisco.

Mangione apparently worked as a head counselor and artificial intelligence teaching assistant for Stanford’s Pre-Collegiate Studies Program from June 2019 to August 2019, according to a LinkedIn page under his name. Stanford’s pre-college program hosts summer educational programs for middle and high school students from across the U.S., according to its website.

Dee Mostofi, assistant vice president of external communications at Stanford, confirmed Monday that “a person by the name of Luigi Mangione was employed as a head counselor under the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies program between May and September of 2019.”

This appears to be the summer between his third and fourth years at the University of Pennsylvania, according to his LinkedIn.

In the description, Mangione said that the job consisted of teaching artificial intelligence to high school students, designing lesson plans, supervising 40 students in residential life and leading a team of residential staff, according to the LinkedIn.

Mangione posted a set of photos depicting his time at Stanford on what appears to be his Instagram account on Aug. 25, 2019. In one photo, he poses with other Pre-Collegiate Studies counselors. In another, he poses on the beach, and in another, he stands with his arms out triumphantly on top of a large rock. He captioned the post, “I was getting paid in half these photos.”

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