Posted on 12/04/2024 10:21:19 AM PST by Morgana
Shocking surveillance footage obtained by DailyMail.com reveals the moment UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead outside Manhattan's Hilton Hotel.
Thompson, 50, was seen leaving the hotel at 6:45am on Wednesday, when a masked assailant draws out a gun with a silencer and shoots him in the back.
After Thompson, the head of America's largest health insurance company, stumbled away from the attacker, the gunman follows him and continues firing into the CEO as he hit the ground.
The gunman fled the scene and escaped into Central Park on a bike, with the NYPD releasing chilling images of the assassin to aid the search, along with a $10,000 reward.
Witnesses said the suspected gunman was seen waiting for some time outside the hotel before the shooting, and knew which door Thompson was going to emerge from before opening fire.
Several people were seen in the footage standing nearby when Thompson was hit, with one woman sprinting down the street after being just feet away from the tragedy.
Thompson was named UnitedHealthcare CEO in 2021 and earned a reported $10 million a year, and for several years prior he ran the Medicare business within UnitedHealthcare.
He was slated to speak at an investor meeting at the Hilton Hotel soon after the shooting. According to a release from United Healthcare on Tuesday, he would announce the company's hugely profitable 2025 financial outlook, including expected revenues upwards of $450 billion.
The suspect is at large, and is described as a white male wearing a cream-colored jacket, black face mask, black and white sneakers, and a grey backpack.
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May be—but I saw no signs of panic.
He walked away from the scene—before starting to run.
Subsonic ammo would work fine at that distance. Especially that last anchor shot at less than 10’...
and never batted an eye to the witness on his right, holding a cup of coffee then running away
Oops need to work on my proof reading, says dead in the first sentence.
No concern for the witness standing RIGHT there... nor the people in that SUV parked at the curb...
4 more steps and he could have cleared line of sight on both of those...
It’s the gun handling that makes me question “pro”... Pro’s practice. Tap/rack drills are practiced... even for those of us who do NOT go around shooting people.
That just looked... sloppy. Like he’d had some range time... but was still not fully familiar with popping fast rounds and manually cycling it due to low pressure.
Given the numerous LEOs and their departments who don't have the best interests of the citizens they're supposed to protect, I'm not sure that witness wants to come forward. At most, they'll be interviewed and indicate they can't ID the shooter.
It doesn’t appear to be random. How did the shooter know when and where he was leaving. Be interesting to know who the CEO was meeting with and the location. One wonders if the shooter will disappear or have an accident.
Disturbing for who? How so differing from regular murders?
Yeah, easier to use a revolver with a silencer...... Yeah, I know. ๐
The CEO of a healthcare organization. Hundreds of thousands of paying insured customers. Bound to be some among those customers crazy enough to do something like this for something like denied coverage to him or to a loved one.
Very dangerous job these days to be head of a healthcare organization, or the head of any organization. Too many crazy violent evil people out there will blame the CEO or management for something that adversly affected them or loved ones.
It’s a different time....it’s the days of Noah.
The perp should be ok, barring any choke holds......
It is an interesting mystery—his demeanor said pro but his gun issues said otherwise.
No panic, to me he was at peace with himself on what he was doing.
I personally believe it was someone who lost a loved one for a denial of service claim but that is just my gut taking a WAG.
I think he wanted to make sure the job was done first and foremost, getting away was secondary IMHO. Just has that feel to me is all.
If he was hired by someone to do it then that can’t be cheap I would think, and those who would do it probably would be more concerned about getting away to spend their money than this guy seems to be.
You should excuse yourself from FR and never return after that cold, heartless statement. He probably had a wife, kids, parents, grandkids, and so forth. So you are happy not only that someone lost their life but that their loved ones’ lives have changed - for the worse - forever?
Pathetic.
bump
I would imagine that if it was the first time the perp had ever killed someone the adrenaline rush and panic would be overwhelming—no matter what the circumstances.
I would expect jerky body language at a minimum.
I agree. It's impossible to tell, but it also looks like the first shot hobbled him. I would think a pro, from that distance, wouldn't have any trouble with a center mass or head shot.
Someone didn’t want him to be spillin’ the beans during the lawsuits and/or DOJ investigation.
Seems professional, but wouldn’t a pro know where the cameras were? Supposedly the murderer knew what door victim was coming out of...inside job, tipping off the murderer?
So, a semi-pro job..maybe someone with s personal beef who hired a semi-pro?
Not enough info to decide.
Then it didn’t actually happen? In Liberal Lala Land when you make something illegal then the problem goes away.
In the real world there’s this thing called unintended consequences. If you pass a law to make something illegal then only outlaws will have that thing. And in this case the Outlaw had confidence that none of the bystanders would pull out concealed weapons to shoot him due to the laws in New York that make this sort of preparation/protection illegal. Thus, it makes the planning more simple for the Outlaw since the Risk of someone interfering beforehand, during, or after the incident was minimized thanks to how NYC has planned ahead to make their city ready for Outlaws to carry out incidents like this with little risk of interference. When an Outlaw faces risks that they might get shot before, during, or after a shooting then they will need to think/plan more for such scenarios. And almost all of their options involve much more likelihood that they won’t be able to get away with their plan.
My personal solution is to stay away as much as possible from NYC and other places like that where their laws are designed to make places be like shooting galleries for determined Outlaws and any of us going there like sitting ducks.
I don’t believe in solving problems through violence.
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