Walking to the company’s annual investor conference at a Hilton in Midtown, only blocks from popular tourist destinations like the Museum of Modern Art and Radio City Music Hall, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed in a morning ambush on Wednesday.
A manhunt is in progress, and the gunman is still at large.
Here’s the most recent:
Deny, defend, and depose: According to an AP source, the ammunition used to assassinate the CEO had writing on it.
A law enforcement officer stated on Thursday that the masked shooter used ammo bearing the slogans “deny, defend, and depose.” The official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, was not permitted to publicly discuss specifics of the current inquiry.
The ammunition’s text might have alluded to tactics insurance firms employ in an effort to evade paying claims.
Earlier, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny had stated that investigators had found multiple 9 millimeter bullet casings outside the hotel.
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One of the biggest insurers in the country, UnitedHealthcare, lost its CEO Wednesday in midtown Manhattan in what authorities said was a planned shooting outside a hotel where the firm was hosting a conference.
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