UnitedHealthcare CEO shot and killed in NYC

Brian Thompson was shot and killed on the way to a UnitedHealthcare shareholders meeting in Manhattan. Police are saying he was targeted. Gunman on the loose.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/us/brian-thompson-united-healthcare-death

 

Posted this earlier on the running shooting thread, but it deserves its own thread.

Just got the most "sun rises in east" push notification I've ever seen from the Wall Street Journal:

"The fatal shooting of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson was a premeditated, targeted attack, NYC police said."

No shit. That narrows the suspect pool down to about 10 million.

 

I do not suspect it was a disgruntled policy holder. But the CEO/owner class everywhere could stand to take a lesson from how deeply unmourned this man is.

A lot of people wouldn’t mind the C-suites of America to rack up a body count of their own. Some of that overlaps with the MAGA movement but a good bit of it does not. I tried making this argument when Ragu would go off on a Capitalism Uber Alles tangent. If you want to cut the peasant class a break for no other reason, do it as protection money.

 

Definitely a hit. The shooter knew where he would be and what time.

Still searching for the guy, who was last seen in Central Park.

 

"I've got a little list, they'll never be missed..."

 

Will UnitedHealthcare deem coverage of his fatal wounds as “medically necessary”?

Inside UnitedHealth’s Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient’s Care — ProPublica

 

Bold move Cotton. This should go over well.

https://www.fox61.com/article/news/...imit/520-9d4aecee-1bf6-4eab-94c4-cfbd5fcb1141

 

Happened very close to my wife’s office. About an hour before she got to work. The crime scene was obviously still very active.

Hard to believe in this day and age the shooter is still at large. Definitely seems to be someone with a plan and the skill to execute that plan. For lack of a better term.

 

Unmourned just like Scrooge at Christmas.
“I’ll go to the funeral but only if there is lunch,”

 

Disgruntled former employee or angry policy holder?

 

That's what's unusual here. If it was done out of anger, usually the killer wants the world to know why he was angry. Many even want to be caught/killed at the scene.

 

That would cull the suspect list to about 10 million.