A former NFL star made a tasteless social media post on Monday following the arrest of Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of fatally shooting healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.
Mangione, 26, is the prime suspect in the killing of former UnitedHealthcare exec Thompson, 50, on December 4th.
And ex-Steelers receiver Antonio Brown decided to weigh in on the ongoing saga with an off-color post on Monday afternoon.
Brown, who is no stranger to shocking social media posts and has claimed to have CTE, posted a photo of Sean Stellato – the agent of Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito – and baselessly suggested that he was connected to Mangione.
‘Yes I’m calling on behalf of my client, Luigi Mangione,’ Brown captioned a photo of the agent on the phone on X.
Brown is known for his vulgar and at-times nonsensical posts for his 2.3million followers, as he previously launched a homophobic attack against Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz and once bizarrely posted a photo of himself and Tom Brady’s ex-wife, Gisele Bundchen.
Luigi Mangione is suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week
Thompson was gunned down outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan on December 4
And former Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown made an off-color joke about the situation
Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s Altoona, Pennsylvania , at 9am after both a worker and an elderly patron spotted him and called the police.
He was detained on firearm charges and and was carrying a ‘ghost gun’, believed to have been made with a 3D printer, when he was arrested.
The suspected killer was also a fan of ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, and referenced quotes from him on health and sickness on his Goodreads page.
‘Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’ read one excerpt from a Kaczynski quote on Mangione’s Goodreads page.
‘The concept of ‘mental health’ in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress,’ read another.
He was also found with a manifesto – which allegedly showed he was irate about the healthcare industry and its profits.
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