Healthcare CEO killed in Manhattan
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This is quite a story:
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk early Wednesday morning in what police called a premeditatedambush that sent them on a manhunt for the unidentified gunman, who fled the area on a bicycle and was last seen heading into Central Park.
The health insurance executive from Minnesota was walking outside the New York Hilton Midtown at about 6:40 a.m., before an investors conference his company was holding in the hotel, when a gunman wearing a hood and a mask fired off several rounds from a pistol. Thompson had been staying in another hotel across the street.
He was killed in one of the busiest parts of the city, an area teeming with tourists as well as people in business suits. Even as New Yorkers prepared for a bustling Christmas season with the traditional tree lighting Wednesday night at Rockefeller Center, officers had cordoned off sections of 54th Street outside the Hilton with yellow crime scene tape and were counting 9mm casings on the ground.
The obvious inference is that this was a targeted killing, but we will find out more. AFICT the killer has not been apprehended as of this writing,