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’t touch upon information experiences relating to Luigi Mangione. We solely know what we’ve got learn within the media. Our household is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” they mentioned in a press release launched through Nino Mangione, Luigi’s cousin and a Maryland state delegate, per Folks.
The assertion got here after Mangione’s mug pictures have been launched to the general public, additional fueling the web’s communal lust over him.
Now, persons are making Britney Spears‘ 2011 hit “Prison” go viral as a result of they assume Mangione is scorching.
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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 “Prison” previous to his arrest.
“Alexa play ‘Prison’ by Britney Spears,” one particular person tweeted together with emojis together with the lip chew 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 ‘Prison’ 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 “Prison by Britney Spears” grew to become a trending phrase on X (previously Twitter).
Another person famous that the tune was caught of their head because of folks making edits of Mangione set to “Prison.”
One particular person predicted that the affect of Mangione and “Prison” going viral would make the tune go “15x platinum.”
In the meantime, extra info has been launched about Mangione’s alleged motive and frame of mind earlier than the crime, based on Folks.
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 house in Hawaii in 2022, shared with the New York Occasions that Mangione did endure from “power again ache.”
The Occasions additionally confirmed that Mangione underwent again surgical procedure final yr, and Martin mentioned that round June or July, he went “radio silent.”
Mangione has been charged with one depend of homicide, two counts of second-degree legal possession of a weapon, one depend of second-degree possession of a cast doc, and one depend of third-degree legal possession of a firearm.
See extra tweets about Luigi Mangione and Britney Spears’ “Prison,” beneath:
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