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Exec’s Homicide Sparks Luigi Memes
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Demented trolls are poking enjoyable at one of many NYC shooter’s victims this week … saying a company real-estate govt acquired “LUIGI’D” — a reference to alleged UnitedHealthCare CEO killer Luigi Mangione.
Social media scoundrels posted a photograph on X of a girl named Wesley LePatner — senior managing director of Blackstone — who was certainly one of 4 folks fatally shot by Shane Tamura inside a Manhattan skyscraper Monday night time earlier than he took his personal life.
The pic exhibits LePatner in a company setting with the phrase “LUIGI’D” stamped throughout her face in huge crimson letters, together with a caption that reads, “Wesley LePatner, CEO of Blackstone Actual Property Revenue Belief, has been evicted from the mortal airplane.”
Much more disturbing, the sick publish acquired 1000’s of likes.

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LePatner was in cost of the corporate’s $53 billion actual property funding fund … and you may recall Luigi is accused of fatally capturing Brian Thompson — the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, a multibillion-dollar medical health insurance firm — in chilly blood in the identical a part of Midtown Manhattan in December. Not lengthy after that capturing, posters popped up across the space seeming to focus on different company executives.
As … police crammed the streets in New York Metropolis Monday night time after calls of an energetic shooter in Midtown Manhattan at 345 Park Avenue — which homes tenants like Blackstone, Deutsche Financial institution … and the Nationwide Soccer League, the shooter’s suspected goal.
Investigators say the shooter, Shane Tamura, wrote in his suicide notice that he believed he suffered from CTE … and, he blamed the NFL for it. He deliberate on capturing up their workplace, however cops say he could not discover the proper elevator. He shot 5 folks, killing 4 — together with an off-duty NYPD officer, earlier than capturing himself within the chest
In fact, Luigi Mangione’s alleged homicide was rather more focused … along with his writings later displaying a contempt for the healthcare business. In a single journal entry, he wrote that the very best plan was to “wack [sic] the CEO on the annual parasitic bean-counter conference.”
Sickos on-line do not care concerning the ideological variations, clearly … they simply appear enthusiastic about one other lifeless govt.