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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How long does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop?
I mean come on DM
The gunman racked his weapon each time he shot... likely because he used a subsonic cartridge. Which is quieter but slower.
Shot by a jealous husband?
Congratulations! you are the first person on the several threads I have looked at who has grasped that simple truth.
Way too many self proclaimed ‘gun experts’ have been saying that it was an amateur thug with a malfunctioning gun. I say it was a pro who knew well in advance that he would have to rack the slide every time, and had practiced it.
This was a hit. The only question is who ordered it.
Which is quieter but slower (i.e. less powerful), hence does not have the excess energy needed to cycle the action.
Many times a subsonic round turns a semiautomatic weapon into a single shot weapon, the price of the suppressed shot.
This will also light up our buddies at the BATF&E - that a suppressed weapon was used in a crime.
More importantly, who are the mystery investors snapping up UNH stock?
Here’s Who Was Buying Up Millions in UnitedHealthcare Stock Before CEO Brian Thompson Was Killed
Parsifal Capital Management LP, an institutional investor, acquired 36,200 shares valued at $21.16 million
So a two trillion+ $ hedge fund run by a neurosurgeon which invests for only five clients whose largest holding is Humana, a UNH competitor, starts snapping up UNH. And this after UHN was the victim of a hack in which the private information of over 100 million of its customers is stolen and sold. Curiouser and curiouser. Anyone have a list of who invests the Clinton Foundation’s cash? Or the Obama’s $? Or the Biden Crime Family’s ill gotten gains?
Someone starts shooting around me, and I’mg going flee as fast as these old legs will move.
Just stirring the pot...On February 21, 2024, UnitedHealth discovered a cybersecurity breach.
On the same day, Nancy Pelosi made her second purchase of call options in Palo Alto Networks, a cybersecurity company that was later chosen to investigate the breach.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was… pic.twitter.com/Q8Tvk9hAq7— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) December 4, 2024
Why would one expect a company’s stock price to increase, after the CEO is shot?
Another interesting piece of the puzzle.
I was wondering that same thing myself this morning after the news broke. Maybe someone hopes to bury the true story of the security breach along with the CEO.
One thing is certain, the MSM will never dig into or report the truth of this story. Someone was apparently caught off guard with this otherwise there would already be a video of an arrest, a perp walk, a manifesto alluded to, and the guy’s dog would have been shot.
“The gunman racked his weapon each time he shot... likely because he used a subsonic cartridge. Which is quieter but slower. “
Who ever that guy was he knew what he was doing.
Wasn’t there a revenue announcement surprising to the upside? Nothing to do with the murder.
I’m going with the usual suspect. Someone who had everything to lose if the CEO was indicted for insider trading?. Someone who knew where the offshore accounts were. And I don’t mean Red Herring mystery machine fans. Who new where he was and his routine? Who is the first suspect, and almost always the person behind the crime in all murders of a married individual? It’s not rocket science.
Or shot by some anti-vax or anti-pharma nut job?
The armed security officers in my hospitals ER use subsonic rounds.
Can’t have 9mm rounds going through a wall and hitting an oxygen line.
likely a hired assassin who fee is a fraction of what is gained by the targets death.
Other recent public assassinations of note:
* A hit on the house of US judge was about to reveal the Epstein client list
* Former PM of Japan who was a populist & refused to promote the c19 Tr0janH0rse”vaccine”.
The weapon looks like a welrod. A welrod needs to be chambered manually after each shot.
Wow. Diabolical. But when you’re a hired assassin you’re basically a dead man walking I would think, you’re a liability to somebody,
No way to live.
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