NYPD Releas­es New Images Show­ing Face Of Sus­pect In Health Insur­ance CEO Assas­si­na­tion

The New York Police Depart­ment shared new images on Thurs­day show­ing the face of the sus­pect in the exe­cu­tion-style shoot­ing of Unit­ed­Health­care CEO Bri­an Thomp­son.

In the new images, the sus­pect is seen wear­ing what appears to be a green jack­et with a hood pulled over his head. The pho­tos are the first post­ed by author­i­ties that show the suspect’s face. The sur­veil­lance pho­tos were tak­en at a youth hos­tel in Man­hat­tan where police believe the sus­pect was stay­ing before the killing, accord­ing to the New York Post. Police still don’t know the name of the sus­pect as they con­tin­ue to pur­sue leads, The New York Times report­ed.

🚨UPDATE: Below are pho­tos of a per­son of inter­est want­ed for ques­tion­ing regard­ing the Mid­town Man­hat­tan homi­cide on Dec. 4. This does not appear to be a ran­dom act of vio­lence; all indi­ca­tions are that it was a pre­me­di­at­ed, tar­get­ed attack.

The full inves­tiga­tive efforts of… pic.twitter.com/K3kzC4IbtS

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) Decem­ber 5, 2024

The hos­tel where the sus­pect was stay­ing, along with a home in Man­hat­tan, was raid­ed in con­nec­tion to the fatal shoot­ing, accord­ing to West Side Rag reporter Gus Salton­stall.

The NYPD is ask­ing any­one with infor­ma­tion about the case or the sus­pect to come for­ward, offer­ing a $10,000 reward “for infor­ma­tion lead­ing to an arrest and con­vic­tion.” The sus­pect fled the scene of the shoot­ing on foot before get­ting on a bike and rid­ing into Cen­tral Park.

Detec­tives inves­ti­gat­ing the scene where Thomp­son was gunned down found shell cas­ings with the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” writ­ten on them, accord­ing to ABC News. Author­i­ties said the shoot­ing appears to be a “brazen tar­get­ed attack.” Author­i­ties are also look­ing into mul­ti­ple death threats Thomp­son received before he was killed.

Thompson’s com­pa­ny Unit­ed­Health­care — a sub­sidiary of Unit­ed­Health Group, one of the largest com­pa­nies in the world — has been crit­i­cized for deny­ing patients’ claims. The CEO was on his way to the Hilton hotel in Mid­town Man­hat­tan to take part in his company’s annu­al Investor’s Con­fer­ence.

CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

The shoot­er fired at Thomp­son from behind as the health insur­ance CEO was approach­ing the Hilton ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing. Video footage shows that after Thomp­son fell to the ground, the shoot­er fired at him mul­ti­ple times. Thomp­son was tak­en to a hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead soon after the shoot­ing.