​The photo of the X-ray of Luigi Mangione's spine, sourced from his X profile, is going viral and social media users exclaimed that he was probably subjected to a botched surgery. "I'd kill someone too if they did this to me," one user wrote explaining that probably Mangione had a lumbar fusion.
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