He was asked about the suspected assassin of Brass Manhattan the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive; Brian ThompsonThe third day has entered as the police have clear reasons for the identity of the killer, but many facts about the horrific transmissions still remain unknown.
Thompson was fatally shot around 6.40am ET on Wednesday outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan, before he was scheduled to speak at the company’s annual investor conference.
The assailant, a man dressed in a black backpack, who was “proficient” with a gun, waited for Thompson in front of the hotel, stabbed him with a pistol apparently fitted with a silencer, and fled through a nearby alley on an ebike. in Central Park.
“From the video footage, it appears that he is proficient in the use of firearms as he was able to quickly clear the technique,” said Joseph Kenny, the NYPD’s chief of detectives.
Manhun immediately followed suit and continued, with the city’s massive network of public and private police cameras hitting and releasing news throughout the week.
On Thursday, police released images of the suspect believed to be at a hostel on the upper west side of the city, where he appeared to reveal the secretary’s forehead and face. He used a fake New Jersey driver’s license to check in, according to CNN reported.
In addition, the police said that they were suspicious New York on a Greyhound bus in Atlanta, Georgia — although it’s unclear exactly where the suspect boarded. At the scene, police found a cellphone, a bottle of water and sometimes a sealed envelope that the killer may have thrown away.
Police have sent DNA samples to a crime lab for testing, although any sure-match identification will come only from people already in existing databases. Another focus was surveillance video showing a suspect placing an unknown object in a pile of street trash as he walked past.
In a local television interview, Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, said: “We are on the right track. We will bring this man to justice… This person was fully clothed and we used good old police work to come up with the picture you have.”
Although the cause of the killing is still unknown, Thompson’s death touched a raw nerve for many Americans regarding their often brutal and abusive trade with the US. care diligence Conjecture about the reason for the killing was increased by the words marked on the shell casings marked with magic: “deny”, “depose” and “defend”.
On social media, Thompson’s death was met with an outpouring of fury at the private health insurance industry he represented; terror investigators of the state’s violence and the executive body in the extremes.
“Now, organizational violence is spreading into the commercial sector,” said Robert Pape, director of the University of Chicago’s project on security and threats. “That’s what I saw when I saw this.”
Many have compared Thompson’s killing to sanity denials – with papers about denial rates going viral, and corporate security firms noting a distinct uptick in violence over the past five years. And if he rises accurately, he will see the rise in violent political threats the researchers found He began in the first administration of Trumpet.
“There is a lot of wrongdoing included in this company and in other companies that stand between the patient and the doctor or their hospital,” said Wendell Potter, a former Cigna vice-president who has become an industry critic; he said Minnesota Star Tribune.
As Americans have shared stories of the stingy hand of private insurers, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Connecticut, New York and Missouri have announced that they will no longer pay for anesthesia if surgery exceeds a certain time limit.
Online, the plan was joined by general anger in the insurance industry sparked by Thompson’s death. Amid backlash and alarm from doctors, the insurer walked back the decision on Thursday, citing “They mean a lot of misinformation” about a change of plan.
The killing also put corporate executives on edge. It is common for company leaders to accept threats, as they are in business with a human face. Thompson’s wife Paulette said NBC News he had once received threats.
Thompson was CEO of the insurance division of UnitedHealth Company, a highly paid executive who earned $10m in annual compensation. UnitedHealth is one of the largest corporations in the world, with a uncial market of $533bn, larger than household names such as Mastercard and ExxonMobil.
UnitedHealthcare has been criticized for denying care vulnerableFAR worse and old people patients; through artificial intelligence to systematically and wrong to deny affirms; is the subject federal monopoly and insider trading investigations; and it is the subject grilling in Congress about the serious disruptions caused by cyber-attacks this year.
Medica, a Minnesota-based not-for-profit health care firm serving 1.5 million customers in 12 states, said it is temporarily closing all six of its locations. Meanwhile, health insurance provider Centene Corporation said its investor meeting this year will now be held partly online in part because of concerns about overspending.
A 50-year-old licensed accountant who reportedly kept a low profile, Thompson is survived by his two sons and his wife, who all live in Grove, Minnesota, where the company is headquartered.
Associated Press reporting