When 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was charged with the murder of health-insurance executive Brian Thompson in New York City last week, the surname Mangione was linked to the crime.
However, for many years, the name has represented something very different: riches, influence, renown, and charity, especially among Baltimore's Italian community.
Giovanna Aquia Blatterman describes them as one of the "most respected" Italian families in the region, if not the most so.
Arriving in the United States from Sicily in 1953, Ms. Aquia Blatterman, now 77, said she had known three generations of Mangiones.
She claimed that the family is "generous" and "self-made," and that Luigi, whom she had met briefly eight years prior, seemed intelligent, affable, and attractive "as you can tell."
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