The soccer field! I had 3 soccer players in HS, oldest was 6’1” and a goalie, very easy. My platinum haired daughter, super easy here. My 5’10” brown haired son? He was always a starter and I would ask my husband why he wasn’t playing. He was (I wasn’t good about knowing what positions they played). Our field was built on an old quarry so we were up on a hill watching.
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I live in a town with a ton of Italian, Greek and Middle Eastern families. Those eyebrows and hair are a dime a dozen here.
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To my eyes, these 3 photos do not immediately look like the same person. Obviously they were enough for him to get ID’d in Altoona and for the SFPD to recognize him, but it is plausible to me that some people close to him may not have made the connection.
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I agree. And also… it’s possible the parents were not even watching the news stories. If I were still working, not sure I would have followed the news story. The only reason my retired husband saw the photos was because I showed them on my ipad. We don’t get the newspaper, and we don’t watch TV news very much.
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Also, something else not reflected in a photo might have made the guy look suspicious. A face mask on a young man in a place where there’s hardly any mask to be seen? Some odd behavior? Walking into a place everyone drives to?
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I was skiing today and 2 older men stopped me to ask the conditions on the trail.
One of the men looked like my brother in law. Until he talked. He had on sunglasses and a hat. He wasn’t but I wasn’t sure.
So I completely understand not recognizing someone out of context and not in a place you would ever expect them.
Besides if this was my kid, I would call my lawyer long before I would call law enforcement
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Surprised it took this long
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Apparently neither Luigi nor his mother had UHC insurance
CNN reporting that SFPD made the ID to the FBI four days before arrest. Now the FBI is confirming that they did pass that information to the NYPD.
SF Chron: “The federal law enforcement source, who spoke to the Chronicle on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said the FBI sent the tip to the New York Police Department. What happened after New York City police received the tip remains unclear. Officials with the New York Police Department did not respond to requests for comment. ”
But the NYPD has said that they never had Mangione’s name before his arrest… 
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I’m not surprised, I don’t think this was personal but the CEO represented what he is against.
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If your daughter wants to blend in, she should come up here (upper Midwest.) She’ll find endless clones up here. But someone who looks like Mangione, not at all! And when I first heard his name I could barely believe it; was he from Italy? His name really makes him stick out, unlike a generic name such as Sven Sundgaard, or Kjerstin Lundstrom etc.
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We have a lot of people in my town with that last name, my sister lives in a Chicago suburb now, her blonde kids blend right in, not here (my sister and I grew up here, blondes who stood out with hair color). Most of the young men here look like this gut.
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In HI, if you’re Asian you’re much hard to pick out than if you’re blond or a redhead. It is a challenge to pick loved ones out in a team or squad. Haha!
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His grandfather was raised in Little Italy, Baltimore (as was Nancy (D’Alesandro) Pelosi whose father was the mayor of Baltimore). Grandfather had 10 children, and there are 60 cousins. A lot of them seem to have very Italian first names.
Baltimore is very ethnically mixed, but many stay in ‘their’ neighborhoods so if you go to school near Little Italy (downtown) you are going to find a lot more who look like Luigi than in the German neighborhood or the Irish neighborhood. Of course, many kids in Baltimore go to catholic schools and may cross neighborhoods to go to an ethnic catholic school too (that their mothers or fathers went to, their 20 cousins, their siblings and even their grandparents).
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To me the picture on the upper right where he’s smiling looks like he has a ski jump nose and narrow face, while it seems much wider in the mug shot. And with the beanie he looks surprisingly like my red headed nephew.
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The ski jump nose is exactly how I describe it! In the left photo he seems to have a solid bump in the bridge of the nose, and in the upper right he looks like the bridge of his nose is smoothed out. It’s why I initially thought it could be 2 different people.
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I wouldn’t guess the 3 photos are of the same person. I’m not good IDing people.
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That’s how it is where I live in NJ. In our town, more than 50% are of Italian ancestry (plus a lot of Irish, mostly Catholic here), I can drive a few minutes and be in a heavily orthodox Jewish community, a few more minutes into a polish community… It’s funny hearing folks say the name is unusual. For his first name, I don’t know many Luigi’s, but many Dante’s, Genero’s, and my son had 3 different baseball coaches named Augie.
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Or southeast to Alabama - I swear every single girl at Auburn and Bama look exactly alike!
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Let’s move on from ethnic appearance please.
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