NYC Murder Suspect Was Ivy League Grad Who Praised Unabomber (1)

Valedictorian at his $37,000-a-year all-boys prep school. Founder of a gaming club and graduate at an Ivy League university. A rapidly ascending data engineer at TrueCar Inc.

Luigi Nicholas Mangione was all that. And now, he’s been charged in New York with the murder of insurance executive Brian Thompson, a 50-year-old father of two gunned down last week in Midtown Manhattan.

To some, Mangione — if he is indeed the killer — represents a folk hero acting on the collective rage of a nation against the perceived faults of the insurance industry. Others see him as the face of ...