The previous roommate of Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, stated he “feels unusual” concerning the Ivy League graduate’s arrest as a result of he knew somebody who was “fully totally different.”
R.J. Martin instructed “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Tuesday that he was roommates with Mangione for six months at Surfbreak Coliving in Honolulu, a self-described “co-working house for distant employees and digital nomads.”
“Your complete time that he [Mangione] lived at Surfbreak, he was an amazing group member. He sort of adopted by our values and our ethics to go away issues higher than you discovered them. He was at all times contributing, caring for different individuals. And even after he moved out, he got here and frolicked and contributed to the group, spearheaded a e book membership,” stated Martin.
Luigi Mangione pictured in a Pennsylvania mugshot after his arrest in reference to the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Obtained by Fox Information Digital)
He added that the 2 grew to become shut buddies, labored out collectively and performed volleyball collectively.
“He is the sort of man who was doing his greatest to care for himself regardless of having some extreme again ache and a, you recognize, a extreme problem,” Martin instructed Fox Information host Jesse Watters.
UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER SUSPECT LUIGI MANGIONE COMPLAINED ABOUT BACK SURGERY BEFORE SLAYING
Composite picture of Luigi Mangione with inset of the taking pictures of Brian Thompson
Mangione was arrested by police at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania and held on a slew of fees earlier than New York prosecutors filed a second-degree homicide cost in opposition to him late Monday night time within the taking pictures dying of Thompson.
FAMILY OF UNITED HEALTHCARE CEO SHOOTING SUSPECT SAYS THEY ARE ‘SHOCKED’ BY SON’S ARREST
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning final week. (Photograph Credit score: Businesswire | NYPD Crimestoppers)
Martin stated he recommended his former roommate and different e book membership members learn Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, explaining that on the time, it was a form of a “half joke.”
Mangione reportedly described Kaczynski’s writings as “fascinating,” though Martin denied turning the 26-year-old towards the infamous assassin.
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“I really feel unusual as a result of he was an amazing good friend and I think about him an in depth good friend and that any person who would assassinate any person is totally incompatible with the person who I lived with, the person who I cooked meals with, the person who, you recognize, was a part of e book membership and different actions with,” Martin stated. “It is like two fully totally different human beings.”
