Luigi Mangione’s Letter To 66-Yr-Outdated Girl Combating Insurance coverage Firm
New Delhi:
Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has exchanged letters with a girl who wrote to him about her struggles to struggle with the insurance coverage firm for her sick daughter.
The lady, Karen, in a letter to Mangione, claimed that her daughter had developed full catatonia in January 2024 and spent 60 days within the hospital in a single 12 months.
Her daughter had a “uncommon, life-threatening illness that requires fixed care and medical remedy,” and UnitedHealthcare refused to pay for her advisable remedy.
Ms Karen claimed that she needed to struggle for months earlier than she might give her daughter the medicine she wanted.
She additionally vowed to “sustain the struggle” in Mangione’s identify.
Mangione, 26, thanked the lady for sharing her story with him. In response, he wrote, “Your letter is the primary to make me tear up. I’m so, so sorry for what you and your daughter so senselessly needed to endure.”
The UPenn graduate additionally requested Ms Karen, 66, to ship {a photograph} of herself and her daughter, in addition to a transparent image of Jesus, as a result of the one within the letter was a blurry black-and-white picture. He promised to place it up on his jail cell partitions subsequent to her letter.
He wrote, “If you’ll be able to ship a photograph of you/your daughter or the mosaic, it might imply an amazing deal to me. I’ll put it up on my jail cell wall subsequent to your letter.”
He concluded the letter, “Your daughter is blessed to have a mom who loves her a lot and fights for her so relentlessly.”
Since his arrest in December, Mangione has acquired hundreds of letters from his supporters and followers. He mentioned, “I’m overwhelmed by and grateful for everybody who has written me to share their tales and specific their help.”
Mangione added that whereas he could not reply to all of the letters, he learn every of them. He additionally thanked everybody for taking the time to jot down.
The 26-year-old is being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle on first-degree homicide costs and two counts of second-degree homicide. He’s set to seem in federal court docket on March 19.
