On Monday, police arrested Luigi Mangione, suspected of being the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week. Right away, the internet scoured Mangione's online presence, deducing numerous details about his life (a privileged Ivy League graduate in the tech world) and his potential motive (a painful and debilitating injury). But NBC News offered an odd theory of its own.
"Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins," the article begins. "In the game, called 'Among Us,' some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players."
