Altman attack suspect referenced Luigi Mangione as copycat fears grow

A Texas antheral accused of firebombing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s location referenced alleged slayer Luigi Mangione successful online messages months earlier the attack, arsenic authorities pass of a imaginable copycat trend.

Daniel Moreno-Gama, 20, suggested "Luigi’ing immoderate tech CEOs" successful an online speech with producers of "The Last Invention" podcast, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reviewed screenshots of messages with the podcast producers. Mangione is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson successful Manhattan successful December 2024.

Moreno-Gama recorded the interrogation successful January, describing his displacement from a self-described online enthusiast to an activistic consumed by fears astir artificial intelligence, the outlet reported.

He aboriginal downplayed the Mangione remarks and rejected violence.

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Daniel Moreno-Gama, accused of targeting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, appears successful tribunal successful San Francisco. (KTVU)

"I recognize the vexation with a idiosyncratic who mightiness advocator for that, but it’s not practical," Moreno-Gama said, according to the outlet. "It’s not worthy it," helium added.

Moreno-Gama is accused of traveling from Texas to San Francisco successful a planned effort to termination Altman. Early Friday morning, helium allegedly hurled a Molotov cocktail astatine Altman’s home, mounting an exterior gross connected occurrence earlier fleeing. No injuries were reported, and officials person not said whether Altman was location astatine the time.

Less than an hr later, investigators said Moreno-Gama arrived astatine OpenAI’s office astir 3 miles away, wherever helium allegedly threatened to pain the gathering down and termination anyone inside. Surveillance video captured him throwing a seat astatine the solid doors, constabulary said.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, left, pictured successful a firm headshot. He was killed connected Dec. 4, 2024, extracurricular a Manhattan edifice portion connected his mode to a shareholder conference. The suspect, Luigi Mangione, is pictured successful tribunal connected the right. (Steven Hirsch for New York Post via Pool)

Authorities arrested him extracurricular the building, wherever helium was allegedly carrying a jug of kerosene, a lighter and writings expressing hostility toward artificial intelligence.

Sources acquainted with the probe antecedently told Fox News Digital the fishy had what they described arsenic a manifesto, a multi-part papers that included a database of AI executives and investors on with their names and addresses.

Moreno-Gama appeared successful a San Francisco courtroom but did not participate a plea connected aggregate charges, including attempted murder. A justice granted a hold successful his arraignment, and helium is owed backmost successful tribunal connected May 5.

The notation comes amid increasing fears of copycat incidents tied to Mangione.

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In a abstracted case, a California antheral is accused of deliberately mounting an April 7 occurrence that destroyed a 1.2 million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark organisation halfway successful Ontario.

Prosecutors said the suspect, Chamel Abdulkarim, 29, of Highland, invoked Mangione portion filming the occurrence and complaining astir wages. Abdulkarim has pleaded not guilty.