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What was the motive behind the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO? It appears to be a ‘symbolic takedown,’ criminologist says

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After police charged Luigi Mangione in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, details of the 26-year-old suspect’s life became the center of intense scrutiny and speculation over social media. 

Mangione was charged on Monday in the fatal shooting of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.

A valedictorian of an all-boys preparatory school and graduate of an Ivy League school, Mangione may not fit the profile of someone who would commit murder on the streets of Manhattan. But Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox says that there are many motivating factors that can lead someone to commit such violence.

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