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WATCH: Suspect in United Healthcare CEO’s Killing Praised ‘Fearless’ Class of 2016 in Valedictorian Speech

Class valedictorian, Luigi Mangione, thanked the class of 2016 for their inventiveness and courage.

In his high school valedictorian speech, suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione described his class of 2016 as “inventive in both imagination and initiative.”

The 26-year-old was identified as the police’s person of interest in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Monday, after being spotted in a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.

New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters that Mangione was carrying a weapon similar to the one used in the fatal shooting when he was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

According to his X profile, Mangione obtained both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to pursuing higher education however, he attended the Gilman School in Baltimore, a private all-boys institution where tuition currently costs around $37,690 per year for high schoolers.

Along with playing football, Mangione was also class valedictorian and his speech has since surfaced online.

Almost eight-minutes in length, Mangione spends most of his speech praising his classmates for their “inventiveness” while also acknowledging their “commitment to Gilman tradition.”

“The class of 2016 has been coming up with new ideas and challenging the world around it,” Mangione says. “I think great ideas however isn’t enough to innovate, the class of 2016’s inventiveness also stems from its incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things.”

He also described the class of 2016 as “fearless to explore new things.”

Mangione later concludes his speech by describing his class as a kind that “only comes around once every 50 years” while thanking the parents in the room for sending their sons to a school that is “far from a small financial investment.”

Law enforcement told The New York Times that Mangione was also carrying a “manifesto” when he was found that criticized healthcare companies.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said, “We don’t think there’s any specific threats to other people mentioned in that document, but it does seem that he has some ill will towards corporate America.”

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