2024-12-11
13 分钟Good morning.
It's Wednesday, December 11th.
I'm Sumita Basu.
This is Apple News today.
On today's show, a dispatch from Syria on the initial days after the fall of Bashar al Assad,
the young lawmakers trying to fix Congress seniority problem,
and why 2024 was the year of Caitlin Clark.
But first, we're starting to get a clearer picture of the person charged with murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
It's only been one week and people across the country have been quick to project their thoughts, their assumptions, motivations onto this person.
Now investigators are trying to piece together his story.
Police say Luigi Mangioni was apprehended with several handwritten pages on him.
In it, he expressed frustration with the healthcare system in America, calling health insurance companies parasitic
and he was critical of corporate greed, writing that he felt he was the, quote, first to face it with such brutal honesty.
Here's NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenney discussing the note on Good Morning America yesterday.
Specifically, he states how we are the number one most expensive healthcare system in the world,
yet the life expectancy of an American is ranked 42 in the world.
So he was writing a lot about his disdain for corporate America and in particular the healthcare industry.
Mangione faces second degree murder, forgery and three gun charges,
and since his arrest, we've learned more about his background and interactions with the healthcare industry.
Mangione grew up in Maryland, spent time in California, and most recently lived in Hawaii.