‘Brazen Tar­get­ed Attack’: NYPD Reveals More Info On Fatal Shoot­ing Of Health Insur­ance CEO

The New York City police com­mis­sion­er said at a press con­fer­ence on Wednes­day that the killing of Unit­ed­Health­care CEO Bri­an Thomp­son appears to be a tar­get­ed hit.

“I want to be clear: at this time, every indi­ca­tion is that this was a pre­med­i­tat­ed, pre-planned, tar­get­ed attack,” said New York City Police Com­mis­sion­er Jes­si­ca Tisch.

The sus­pect arrived on foot out­side the Hilton hotel in Mid­town Man­hat­tan around five min­utes before Thomp­son was seen walk­ing alone with­out any secu­ri­ty detail toward the hotel where his com­pa­ny was hold­ing a con­fer­ence, NYPD Chief of Detec­tives Joe Ken­ny said. The sus­pect, who appears to be a white male, approached Thomp­son from behind and shot him in the back just after 6:45 am, accord­ing to Ken­ny. The sus­pect con­tin­ued walk­ing toward Thomp­son, shoot­ing him mul­ti­ple times.

The shoot­er then fled on foot before get­ting onto an elec­tric city bike and rid­ing into Cen­tral Park. The last known loca­tion of the sus­pect was in Cen­tral Park, and Ken­ny said the city e‑bikes have GPS loca­tors on them. Ken­ny added that author­i­ties still do not know the motive for the shoot­ing.

The Unit­ed­Health­care CEO was pro­nounced dead at a hos­pi­tal short­ly after the shoot­ing. New York City Demo­c­ra­t­ic May­or Adams told reporters, “We want to be clear to New York­ers that this does not appear to be a ran­dom act of vio­lence,” The New York Times report­ed.

The Times report­ed that the shoot­er appeared to know which entrance Thomp­son would use to enter the hotel.

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A sur­veil­lance pho­to tak­en near the hotel showed the sus­pect wear­ing all black with a back­pack and appear­ing to hold a long hand­gun. Anoth­er pho­to showed the sus­pect flee­ing on a bike after the shoot­ing.

At the press con­fer­ence on Wednes­day, police released a fly­er show­ing the sur­veil­lance images and offer­ing a $10,000 reward to any­one who has infor­ma­tion on the sus­pect.

New York Demo­c­ra­t­ic Gov. Kathy Hochul said she has been briefed on the shoot­ing and called it “hor­rif­ic.”

“Our hearts are with the fam­i­ly and loved ones of Mr. Thomp­son, and we are com­mit­ted to ensur­ing the per­pe­tra­tor is brought to jus­tice,” she said.