A suspect in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been identified by the New York Police Department as Luigi Magione, a co-founder of the University of Pennsylvania's first video game development club. Awas arrested earlier today, indicates that he also worked as a programming intern at Firaxis Games for one year and four months beginning in 2016, helping to fix hundreds of bugs in Civilization 6.
Mangione's LinkedIn page points to a strong interest in tech and gaming in particular. In a 2018 interview posted on the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science blog , Mangione said he taught himself how to code in high school, which is what led him into computer science at the college level, and eventually to launching the school's game dev organization:"I just really wanted to make games.
A little-used Twitter account under Mangione's name, registered in 2016, doesn't include any mention of Civilization 6 or gaming in general, other than featuring an image of the Pokémon Breloom