The former roommate of Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, mentioned 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 advised “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 staff and digital nomads.”
“The whole time that he [Mangione] lived at Surfbreak, he was a terrific neighborhood member. He kind of followed by our values and our ethics to depart 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 neighborhood, spearheaded a ebook membership,” mentioned Martin.
Luigi Mangione pictured in a Pennsylvania mugshot after his arrest in reference to the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
He added that the 2 turned shut associates, labored out collectively and performed volleyball collectively.
“He’s the sort of man who was doing his greatest to handle himself regardless of having some extreme again ache and a, you realize, a extreme challenge,” Martin advised Fox News host Jesse Watters.
UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER SUSPECT LUIGI MANGIONE COMPLAINED ABOUT BACK SURGERY BEFORE SLAYING
Composite picture of Luigi Mangione with inset of the capturing of Brian Thompson
Mangione was arrested by police at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania and held on a slew of prices earlier than New York prosecutors filed a second-degree murder charge towards him late Monday evening within the capturing 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. (Photo Credit: Businesswire | NYPD Crimestoppers)
Martin mentioned he advised his former roommate and different ebook membership members learn Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, explaining that on the time, it was a type of “half joke.”
Mangione reportedly described Kaczynski’s writings as “attention-grabbing,” 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 a terrific good friend and I contemplate him an in depth good friend and that someone who would assassinate someone is totally incompatible with the person who I lived with, the person who I cooked meals with, the person who, you realize, was a part of ebook membership and different actions with,” Martin mentioned. “It’s like two fully totally different human beings.”
