Posted on 12/04/2024 7:27:28 PM PST by Morgana
It has all the hallmarks of a dramatic spy movie.
At around 6.45am on Wednesday, a masked assassin shot dead a multi-millionaire executive on one of New York's busiest shopping streets.
After confirming he'd eliminated his target, the hooded gunman walked calmly away, before apparently disappearing into thin air in one the world's most surveilled cities.
His victim: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, who earned $10 million a year, suffered at least two gunshot wounds – one to the back, the other in his leg – outside the Hilton Hotel on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. He was later pronounced dead in hospital.
It appears to have been a targeted attack, police say, with the assassin lying in wait outside the Hilton for about five minutes before Thompson emerged from his hotel over the street.
The executive had arrived in the city on Monday and was making his way to his company's annual investor conference, due to be held in the Hilton and at which he was expected to announce bumper predicted revenues of over $450 billion. UnitedHealthcare is the largest health insurance provider in the US.
Chilling CCTV footage shows the assassin stepping out from behind a vehicle and shooting Thompson – who didn't see his killer coming – with a large handgun that appears to have been fitted with a silencer. The first bullet sends Thompson, a married father-of-two, stumbling to the floor while a mystery bystander flees.
The killer's gun then appears to jam, prompting him to adjust the weapon, before stepping closer to Thompson and taking another shot.
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This is such a silly topic.
What do they expect a person to do? wait around and get shot? Return to the scene of the crime?
Any sane person would distance themselves as fast as their legs could fly.
While the shooter may have shot people before thereby considered a ‘pro’, I doubt his experience. A real pro would have used a revolver so no spent shell casings could be found at the scene. Empty shell casings sometimes have fingerprints on them from preparing the ammo and/or from the loading of the gun.
In this case the casings are reported to have the words "Deny", "Defend", "Depose" on them. Could be an anti-insurance antifa type. Or a hitman posing as one as a means of creating a false lead. Maybe just a disgruntled employee losing his job to India.
I would guess that he was shot next to a Starbucks because the CEO probably goes there every day at the same time. The shooter knew the schedule and took advantage of it.
The phone may have been used to alert the assassin that the target is leaving the Starbucks. Someone was waiting at the store to identify the target while the assassin lays in wait nearby.
Uh - it’s nearly impossible to suppress the shots on a revolver. That gap between the cylinder and the barrel.
In one clip of the incident from behind, the woman in the foreground appears to be filming it with a phone. Accomplice?
STUMBLING TO THE FLOOR???????
IS THERE ANYONE IN MEDIA who knows the difference between a floor & a sidewalk & the ground?????
PELOSI IS SOOOOOO DEEP INTO INSIDER TRADING, SHE LIVES IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE.
I want VIVEK & MUSK TO UNCOVER HER REAL LIFE.
“Any sane person would distance themselves as fast as their legs could fly.”
For key seconds immediately after the murder the perp did not do that.
They calmly walked across the street—before they started running.
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