Following suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione’s arrest on Monday morning (Dec. 9), the web has gone fully feral.
Then again, his household launched a somber assertion addressing the allegations and his arrest.
“Sadly, we can not touch upon information reviews relating to Luigi Mangione. We solely know what now we have learn within the media. Our household is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” they stated in an announcement launched by way of Nino Mangione, Luigi’s cousin and a Maryland state delegate, per Individuals.
The assertion got here after Mangione’s mug pictures had been launched to the general public, additional fueling the web’s communal lust over him.
Now, individuals are making Britney Spears‘ 2011 hit “Legal” go viral as a result of they assume Mangione is sizzling.
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Within the tune, Britney famously sings, “Mama, I am in love with a legal.”
One fan even joked that Mangione was listening to “Legal” previous to his arrest.
“Alexa play ‘Legal’ by Britney Spears,” one particular person tweeted together with emojis together with the lip chunk emoji.
The tweet was in response to a photograph of Mangione being escorted into court docket by police following his arrest.
“If the gays truly make ‘Legal’ by Britney Spears begin charting once more due to this Luigi mess I’m going to finish up within the hospital from fractured lungs I’m so [for real],” one other particular person tweeted after “Legal by Britney Spears” turned a trending phrase on X (previously Twitter).
Another person famous that the tune was caught of their head because of individuals making edits of Mangione set to “Legal.”
One particular person predicted that the impression of Mangione and “Legal” going viral would make the tune go “15x platinum.”
In the meantime, extra data has been launched about Mangione’s alleged motive and way of thinking earlier than the crime, in response to Individuals.
The outlet reported that Mangione had allegedly been affected by “debilitating” again ache and reportedly disappeared and gone “radio silent” from his family and friends.
R.J. Martin, who lived with Mangione at a shared residing area in Hawaii in 2022, shared with the New York Instances that Mangione did undergo from “power again ache.”
The Instances additionally confirmed that Mangione underwent again surgical procedure final 12 months, and Martin stated that round June or July, he went “radio silent.”
Mangione has been charged with one rely of homicide, two counts of second-degree legal possession of a weapon, one rely of second-degree possession of a cast doc, and one rely of third-degree legal possession of a firearm.
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