Brian Thompson NYC shooting latest: UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer seen in new footage as police ‘close in on suspect’

The New York Police Department appears to have stepped up its search efforts as it tries to get closer to finding the suspect who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday.

After he was last seen riding his bike out of Central Park on West 85th Street shortly before 7 a.m., according to video obtained by NBC News, he has since remained at large.

The police have deployed a number of investigators – uniformed and plainclothes – dogs, drones and helicopters to hunt down the attacker, according to The Times.

Investigators are said to be using facial recognition technology to try to identify the suspect from surveillance footage – after the suspect was seen at a Starbucks near the crime scene outside the Hilton Midtown hotel in New York.

It follows police searching the hostel as they continue to investigate the identity of the suspect who fatally shot Thompson, the report said.

Police reportedly searched a hostel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, according to CNN.

Police reportedly searched the hostel as they continue to identify the suspect who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday, according to a report.

Officers searched a hostel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side where they believe the suspect may have been staying, according to CNN.

It comes after police were said to be seeking a search warrant at an undisclosed location in New York City where the alleged killer may have been hiding, sources told ABC News Thursday morning.

The alleged killer was last seen riding his bicycle out of Central Park on West 85th Street shortly before 7 a.m. and has remained at large since then, according to footage obtained by NBC News.

Thompson was shot at point blank range around 6:46 a.m. Wednesday outside the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan.

The gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a horrific early-morning shooting left behind a cryptic message — with the words “reject,” “deny” and “defend” etched into bullets found at the scene.

Those three words bear a striking resemblance to the book 10 by Rutgers Law School professor Jay Feinman: Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It. The book offers a sharp analysis of the American insurance industry.

“Today, the name of the game is delay, deny, defend: to improve their profits, insurance companies delay payment of justified claims, deny payment entirely, and defend their actions by forcing plaintiffs to enter into litigation,” the text of the book reads.

The Independent has contacted the NYPD about investigating the relationship.

Police appear to be closing in on identifying the suspect who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Wednesday morning, sources say.

Officers are said to be seeking a search warrant at an undisclosed location in New York City where they believe the alleged killer may have been hiding, sources told ABC News on Thursday.

It comes as the gunman is still at large and no arrests have been made – the NYPD is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the gunman.

The suspect shot Thompson outside the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, shooting him in the back and right calf at approximately 6:46 a.m., according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.

He was last seen leaving the park on West 85th Street shortly before 7 a.m., according to video obtained by NBC News.

The manhunt for the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a shooting in the heart of Manhattan has now entered its second day, and the killer is still at large.

With the attacker’s identity unknown and the motive still a mystery, authorities are trying to determine the killer’s movements that morning – and where he went next.

James Liddell it runs from the first time the suspect was seen at 5 a.m. until the last, two hours later.

The suspect who killed Brian Thompson was reportedly seen on surveillance video leaving Central Park on a bicycle about 15 minutes after the shooting, according to sources.

The video, obtained by CBS News, appears to show the suspect riding his bike out of a park on West 85th Street shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday, sources told the agency.

That would mark the latest sighting of the gunman, following the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO around 6:46 a.m. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital around 7:12 am

Prior to the new sighting, the suspect was last seen heading north on 6th Avenue toward Central Park at 6:48 a.m. allegedly riding an e-bike.

The suspect who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a harrowing close-range shooting was seen on video in New York nearly two hours before the crime, sources say.

The suspect, a white male dressed in black, was initially spotted on a Starbucks security camera at West 56th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan about 30 minutes before Thompson’s death around 6:46 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Now sources have told ABC News that it was caught on video much earlier.

The suspect was reportedly filmed walking outside the Frederick Douglass House, a public housing project on the Upper West Side, as early as 5:00 a.m., according to the release.

Leave it to Fox News to somehow find a way to insert the topic of illegal immigration and “criminal migrants” into its coverage of the “brazen” killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who authorities say was “specifically targeted” outside a New York City hotel on Wednesday .

Moderating a panel discussion about the shocking attack, which took place early this morning outside New York’s Midtown Hilton, Fox News host Harris Faulkner mentioned recently New York Post story about the number of “illegal immigrants” in New York who have criminal records.

While he acknowledged that police have not linked immigration to Thompson’s murder, Faulkner argued that it remains a relevant topic because the city’s large number of “criminal immigrants” land in the New York Police Department.

Justin Baragona has a full story.

A manhunt is underway after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed Wednesday morning in what police described as a “brazen targeted attack” outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

Thompson’s wife said her husband recently received threats from angry customers over complaints she believed may have had to do with a “lack of coverage.”

“I don’t know the details,” Paulette Thompson said NBC News. “I just know he said some people threatened him.”

Justin Rohrlich has a full story.