What Luigi Mangione’s mother did the day before his arrest, as ‘CEO shooter’ hinted at … See more

Luigi Mangione’s mother made a solemn visit to church less than 24 hours before her son was arrested for being the alleged assassin of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.

The accused killer of top brass Brian Thompson, who was shot dead in the streets of New York City, captivated the country after he was captured by authorities following a five-day run from police.

And in the blink of an eye, Kathy Mangione went from a desperate mother searching for her estranged 26-year-old son to the mother of an accused murderer.

‘Less than 24 hours later, their lives completely did a flip flop,’ Santo Grasso, a longtime family friend who was at the church event, told the WSJ.

Those close to the successful family said that a distraught Kathy was doing everything she could for the better half of the year to search for her son after he ‘went off the grid six months to a year ago and wasn’t communicating with anybody,’ the WSJ reported.

His absence affected the family so much that they took it upon themselves to hire a private investigator to locate him.

In the days leading up to her son’s arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Kathy went out to lunch with some friends at an Italian Market near Baltimore’s waterfront on Saturday.

The next afternoon, she and her husband were in attendance at a ceremony honoring one of her brothers located at a church in the city’s Little Italy.

Yet when her son finally resurfaced on Monday, it was in the most shocking of circumstances – his name was plastered everywhere in the media for gunning down the healthcare CEO.

The family has since released a statement expressing their devastation and shock, which said: ‘We only know what we have read in the media’.

Luigi’s arrest after he was spotted by a customer at a McDonald’s rocked the lives of his massive Baltimore-based family – 16 aunts and uncles and more than 30 cousins in total.

Grasso, a 73-year-old retired police detective, remains confident that Luigi’s parents were blindsided by their son’s arrest, considering how calm they looked at the church service Sunday afternoon.