The 26-year-old charged with the cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson comes from a prominent Maryland real estate family.

Suspect in CEO’s murder hails from real estate family

Luigi Mangione’s grandfather was a multimillionaire developer and owner of a resort and a country club in suburban Maryland.

Nicholas Mangione, who died in 2008, had 10 children and 37 grandchildren, several of whom now manage the family’s real estate holdings, according to published reports.

He bought the Turf Valley Resort and Conference Center in Ellicott City in 1978, according to The Washington Post. He and his family eventually turned it into the local county’s only full-service resort and conference center. They built a 220-room hotel, ballroom, spa and amphitheater.

The real estate family patriarch and his wife also purchased nearby Hayfields Country Club in 1986 and restored it almost a decade later, according to the club’s website.

Nicholas Mangione also founded Lorien Health Services, a nursing home and assisted living company with nine locations. The family still runs the company.

It’s unclear which of the patriarch’s children is the father of Luigi, the 26-year-old arrested while eating at a Altoona, Pennsylvania, McDonald’s after an employee recognized him and called police.

One of Luigi Mangione’s cousins, Nino Mangione, is a Maryland state legislator. He released a statement from the Mangione family saying they “only know what we have read in the media” and that they were “shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest.”

Mangione was acting suspiciously and carrying fraudulent IDs when confronted by officers in the Altoona McDonald’s, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.