After being the chief executive of United Healthcare Brian Thompson was He got off the car outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday morning in “air targeted attack“, clue after clue quickly emerged.
Surveillance video appears to show the shooter leaving a nearby subway station at 6.15am and buying two energy bars, as well as a bottle of water at a nearby Starbucks; Roncus reported.
Moments later, I look up, wearing a brown shirt, a face mask and a gray backpack, the memory slips near the deli and, around 6.30am, he appears to be using the phone, apparently videotaped. About half an hour after he left the subway, I saw him walking to the hotel where Thompson was headed for United’s annual investor conference, and waiting outside.
The suspect approached Thompson from behind and opened fire, then approached him and kept shooting, continuing to fire on his ramp even after the gun stopped. The gunman crossed the road, slipped through the alley, and jumped on the ebike. Then head north toward Central Park.
As police scoured the scene and expanded their search efforts, the plethora of evidence grew. Some sources said to New York Post that the bullets used in Thompson’s death appear to be emblazoned with the words, deny, put down and defend.
Because these words are similar 2010 book Stop, Renew, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay, and What You Can Do About It Questions prompted whether these shootings lead to criticism of the health insurance industry.
Police reported a bottle of water and a cellphone in the alleyway through which the shooter fled. The best feelings emerged in the upper west hostel, in the video surveillance. He submitted his profile, in which CNN as “a flirtatious moment“, and the female employee flashed a wide smile.
Despite an extensive foot guard, a body riddled with bullets and evidence, the shooter remains alone and largely responsible for the crime committed in one of the nation’s most policed states. His cause remains unknown and speculation has been raised: was he a professional shooter, or was the killer simply disturbed by an unpopular health insurer? Or are there other reasons still unknown?
Other high-profile killers offer lessons in not jumping to conclusions after generating false theories about a motive. Bob Lee’s Cash App founder 2023 killing in San Francisco they spawned theories about homeless killers and commentary about urban violent crime. But the accused killer, Nima Momeni, was a consultant who prosecutors said led to the attack on his sister by Lee, a drug dealer who believed her to be a tech guru. Jurors are deliberating in that case.
In New YorkAnthony Comello has been charged with the 2019 killing of Francis “Franky Boy” Cali, the leader of the Gambino mob family. Before Comello’s arrest, the death sparked concerns about the possibility of a mass war. As it turned out, the suspect believed he was helping Donald Trump and that Cali was part of the “deep state.”
Vernon J Geberth, the retired NYPD lieutenant commander who wrote Practical Homicide Investigation, widely considered a seminal work on homicide problems, does not believe the suspect is a professional killer.
“It’s also personal, from my perspective,” says Geberth, who is not involved in research but bases his opinion on years of experience. “Leaving some of those clues is like someone making a statement.
“Professional people do not say – do not just do the job.”
When there is a lot of evidence, Geberth said, that doesn’t necessarily lead to suspicion right away. It is possible to forge spikes and DNA from a water bottle or cellphone, for example, but that does not lead to suspicion if this information is not in a database to which law enforcement has access.
“It can be someone who has never committed a crime before in their life,” Geberth said. “If you’re not in the system, you’re not in the system.”
Geberth said he thinks the killer will be as footage of the suspect’s face is now available to the public across America and the world.
His face is all over TV now, the salary is $10,000,” said Geberth. “Someone, somewhere is going to know him because this case is being covered internationally.”
Mary Ellen O’Toole, who worked as an FBI profiler to catch the Unabomber killer, said the killer exhibited dedicated behavior, but made some mistakes.
Looking back at the first stage of events, “he tells me that the shooter is doing his homework – quite a bit of preparation.” O’Toole noted that the shooting took place outside a large hotel, with multiple entrances, but he still knew how to make contact with the victim.
“Where is that information? We don’t know.”
O’Toole also noted that the gun had a suppressor in it, which was placed in the barrel of the gun to make it less audible when fired.
“The shooter seems to have thought about what he wants to shoot. Unless you put the sound down, he could remind you,” O’Toole said.
Among the most interesting aspects of O’Toole: the shooter kept his cool with his gun packed, which can be difficult even for trained law enforcement officers.
“When you’re at the facility, sometimes, when the guns are jammed, it can be aggravating, it can be stressful, it can be angry,” O’Toole said. “If you look at the shooter, there was none of that.
“There was no conversation between the shooter and the victim. He came there not to have a conversation – he came there to kill the CEO.”
Because of the trail of evidence left behind, O’Toole believes investigators are keeping an open mind about the fact the suspect left behind casings and bullets and a bottle of water nearby.
“They’re considering, I’m sure, leaving them there to trick or take them down,” O’Toole said. “A good analyst or a good researcher will not enter into one closed theory.”
As of press time, the shooter has not been arrested. Mayor of New York Eric Adamswho is it by crime For the scope and scale of the charges he is facing, police said Friday they were working quickly to catch the killer.
“When you look at the number of hours between the execution of each person fully clothed and bringing him to justice, you will know how quickly the method is. New York The city’s police department is moving,” Adams said on 1010 Wins Drive Radio this morning.
“Obviously, this was not a random incident. Our preliminary investigation sees this as a targeted shooting, but we are moving closer to apprehending him and taking this dangerous man onto our country’s roads.”
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