CEO of UnitedHealthcare fatally shot outside of NYC hotel, source says
CEO of UnitedHealthcare fatally shot outside of NYC hotel, source says
Brian Thompson, 50, was outside the hotel on Sixth Avenue when the suspect shot him in the chest and leg around 6:46 a.m.
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"A person familiar with the matter told CNBC that the suspect was wearing a black hoodie and black pants and was carrying a gray backpack. It’s believed the suspect used a firearm with a silencer." So this was a hit? I'll grant that a lot of people might have wanted to take this guy out, but the real question is who was so motivated as to make it happen?
First reported in NY Post: https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/ceo-of-unitedhealthcare-fatally-shot-outside-of-hilton-hotel-in-nyc-in-possible-targeted-attack-sources/
but the real question is who was so motivated as to make it happen?
Anyone who has been denied necessary healthcare by UHC or anyone who's loved one died because they were denied necessary healthcare by UHC would have a motive.
Died, disabled, or went through other unnecessary, avoidable pain and suffering. It's... quite a pool of candidates.
It sounds like he was receiving regular death threats and considered it par for the course.
suspect was wearing a black hoodie and black pants
Me: Nope, never seem anyone like that before...
Officer: What about the guy in this picture wearing a black hoodie and pants that you appear to be staring at in this security video?
Me: Yeah... doesn't sound familiar.
Officer: Sir, that was 5 minutes ago...
Officer, I'm sorry, after re-examining the picture I am now sure I have seen that man multiple times.
Once a week for almost my entire life on Sunday's, and one time when I got tired walking on the beach he gave me a piggy back ride.
but the real question is who was so motivated as to make it happen
Well there are 330+ million people on the United States so…
Yes, but not all of them use UnitedHealth.
The only people who don't hate the US insurance industry are a) those who benefit financially from it and b) those who haven't been fucked over by it yet. Granted there are a lot of people in group b but all of them will eventually leave it.
So you're saying they have a very limited pool of potential suspects?
Well a hit by anyone, maybe not a bigger scheme. You can buy silencers online and also manufacture them yourself rather easily.
Suppressors require a federal tax stamp from the ATF to purchase, but yeah everything you said is true.
Well, legally obtained silencers, for sure. And, tax stamp forgery is big business.
I would like to know more.
It kinda sounds like he did this with at least the bones of a plan. And aren't silencers relatively easy to improvise, if you don't need it to last?
Imagine thinking someone committing a crime obtained their weapons legally. Sure it’s possible but you’re just jumping to conclusions.
Wait time is like a month if you have it in your own name, 3ish if using a trust.
The "extra background check" really isn't any more indepth than the one for buying a gun either.
Silencer by no means implies this was a professional hit. Lots of people have em these days just for the hell of it
Huh. Tax stamps must have really changed. It used to be a 7 month wait, minimum, when I was dealing with them.
I'd be okay with them never finding out.
Yah know, in this modern world there are so many things that are immediately knowable, and yet even looking up something knowable takes time. I encourage people to rest comfortably in those tiny moments of unknowing, for the time during which they last. Savor the mystery.