By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-05 23:01:04 | Updated at 2024-12-22 16:16:27
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New footage emerged Thursday showing the suspect in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson strolling out of a Manhattan subway station just 30 minutes before the fatal shooting.
The suspected gunman — accused of shooting the executive execution-style on a Midtown street — was seen leaving what appears to be the 57th Street station around 6:15 a.m., in the newly-obtained surveillance video taken from a cigar store on Sixth Avenue.
Cops had previously released photos of the hooded man standing at a Starbucks counter at West 56th Street and Sixth Avenue, just minutes away from the Hilton hotel where he allegedly shot Thompson, 50, at close range.
What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
- Brian Thompson, the CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down Wednesday outside a luxury Midtown hotel in a “brazen, targeted attack,” police said.
- The methodical killer used a firearm with a silencer outside the Hilton hotel along Sixth Avenue.
- The gunman fired at Thompson multiple times, striking his back and right calf before fleeing on foot.
- The NYPD released a new photo of the hooded suspect standing in front of the counter at the Starbucks at West 56th Street and 6th Avenue, just minutes from the Hilton hotel where he gunned down Thompson, 50.
- Thompson was named CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Department of Justice.
- Thompson’s wife, Paulette, said her husband had been getting threats before he was killed.
- The NYPD is investigating a possible message — which appears to include the words “deny,” “depose” and “defend” — engraved on live rounds and shell casings left behind by the masked assassin.
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The NYPD also released surveillance images showing the accused killer grinning widely, with a black mask hanging from his chin and sporting similar clothing as the shooter in the fatal slaying outside the luxury hotel.
Police said the gunman fired multiple rounds before fleeing quickly on foot and then grabbing an e-bike to complete his getaway.
