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The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was fatally shot in what police said appears to be a "premeditated, preplanned targeted attack" outside the New York Hilton hotel in midtown 🇺🇸 Manhattan on Wednesday morning.

Brian Thompson, 50, was on his way to speak at UnitedHealth Group's investor conference when the gunman approached from behind and "fired several rounds," Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference.

He was struck at least once in the back and at least once in the right calf, Tisch said, adding that the gunman was "lying in wait for several minutes."

"Many people passed the suspect, but he appeared to wait for his intended target," she said.

Security video shows Thompson, dressed in a blue suit, walking down the fairly quiet street. The gunman approaches him from behind and opens fire, it shows.

Thompson stumbles forward as a witness runs to safety. The gunman continues to fire as Thompson falls to the ground, the video shows.

Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said the shooter arrived at the scene about five minutes before the shooting and fired at Thompson’s back.

"The shooter then walks toward the victim and continues to shoot. It appears that the gun malfunctions as he clears the jam and begins to fire again," he said.

Three live 9 mm rounds and three discharged 9 mm shell casings were found at the scene, as well as a cellphone near the scene.

Kenny reiterated that the shooting appears to have been a targeted attack.

"The motive for this murder is currently unknown, but based on the evidence we have so far, it does appear the victim was specifically targeted," he told reporters. "But at this point, we do not know why."

Thompson, who lives in Minnesota, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai West.

His wife, Paulette Thompson, said he had been receiving threats.

"There had been some threats," she told NBC News. "Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him."

Credit: NBC News

He must have over charged someone for the asthma treatment

Nawao

99.9% of comments under every news station on YouTube reporting the death of this man proves that the shooter has done a good deed for humanity and has avenged those who have died as a result of greed and neglect of united healthcare.

Good riddance.

BitterPost:
99.9% of comments under every news station on YouTube reporting the death of this man proves that the shooter has done a good deed for humanity and has avenged those who have died as a result of greed and neglect of united healthcare.

Good riddance.

As in eh,

It's been a while I read the news of someone's death and felt nothing but pure joy and delicious happiness.

So sad, what a society

If money can buy life

Lo

E be like OP dey use Internet explorer

I don't know but Americans are Happy about the news cos of their Comments on X and Tiktok

Too bad R I P

🥴

Thundafireseun:

Hamas

may ur mouth nor put in trobu

WriterNig:
Maybe Biden ordered the hit.

Check the wife. It could someone close to Jim that ordered the wife.

The shooter is probably someone who lost a loved one. People were actually rejoicing about his death, based on how UnitedHealthcare has treated its customers. This life, try to be good.

So much killings in almighty USA

Terrorists who love weapons.

Insane environment

Rubbish country

When I heard the news at my client's house, we both said it was an inside job, probably someone related to or a work thing. But we were glad it was not a black person who did it.

Nairaland this is something that happened yesterday cnn and fox have been on it all day.

Why is it just on front page

The main vice of USA is gun wahala and unfortunately as decisive as Trump is, he's a supporter of gun society.

Wife said he had been receiving threats. If that is true why couldn't he get a personal security. The threats couldn't have been empty threats now. Haaaa! This is negligence to me o.

WriterNig:
Maybe Biden ordered the hit.

Spoken like an empty vessel.