New York City Mayor Eric Adams revealed Saturday that the suspect in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been identified, following an intense days-long manhunt. While Adams stopped short of confirming whether the suspect’s name was known, he assured reporters that authorities are narrowing in on the individual.
“We do not want to give him an upper hand at all,” Adams said during a press briefing. “The net is tightening.”
Thompson was gunned down outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan early on a weekday morning. Arriving before 7 a.m. to attend a healthcare conference, he was ambushed by a masked assailant who appeared to have been lying in wait. Surveillance footage captured the chilling moment when the gunman approached Thompson and fired multiple shots at close range before fleeing the scene on an electric bike, heading into Central Park.
Law enforcement has since been piecing together the evidence, including a striking discovery at the crime scene: shell casings inscribed with ominous words—“Deny,” “Defend,” and “Depose.”
Detectives investigating Thompson’s murder believe the inscriptions on the shell casings may offer insight into the motive behind the killing. Sources speculate the shooter could be a disgruntled client or someone with a grievance against UnitedHealthcare.
Further fueling this theory, Thompson’s wife, Paulette, disclosed that their family had received threatening messages in the weeks leading up to the assassination. She hinted that these threats might have stemmed from disputes over insurance coverage or company decisions that impacted individuals or businesses.
The chilling nature of the crime, combined with these details, has led investigators to consider whether the killing was meticulously planned and executed as an act of revenge.
Mayor Adams’s latest update comes as NYPD officers intensify their search efforts. Police divers are currently scouring a lake near the Central Park Boathouse, looking for the firearm used in the attack. Investigators are particularly focused on areas around the Boathouse’s foundation and a nearby fountain, according to sources.
In another significant lead, law enforcement revealed that the backpack carried by the gunman contained a jacket and “high-end” apparel. This discovery has provided additional clues about the suspect’s possible profile, suggesting a person who may not fit the usual profile of violent criminals.
Saturday marked the fourth day of the search for Thompson’s killer, and officials remain tight-lipped about specific details of the investigation. However, Adams expressed confidence that an arrest was imminent.
“We are making steady progress,” he said at a Police Athletic League holiday event in Harlem. “Our officers are working tirelessly, and I believe we’ll soon have closure on this tragic case.”
The investigation has mobilized significant resources, including forensic experts analyzing the inscribed shell casings and digital forensics teams reviewing surveillance footage from the area.
The brazen nature of the attack has sent shockwaves through the healthcare and business communities, with many calling for enhanced security measures for high-profile executives. Thompson, who was well-respected in his field, had led UnitedHealthcare through significant transformations in recent years, making the nature of his murder all the more jarring.
Some industry insiders speculate that the crime underscores the heightened tensions surrounding healthcare policies and disputes, particularly as insurance companies face growing scrutiny and dissatisfaction from consumers.
As authorities continue their search, Mayor Adams’s assurances suggest that investigators are closing in on the suspect. The case has captivated public attention, with its mix of high-profile targets, cryptic evidence, and the broader implications of a targeted assassination.
For now, the city waits for further developments, hoping for answers to a crime that has left both the healthcare industry and the public deeply shaken.
should not take them this long to figure out who he is.with today tech they should have known by days end
they probably do already but there not going to tell us !!!
The population is getting pretty fed up with all the corruption that is woven into the Political and Healthcare monopoly. People see that going to another country for medication and surgery is by far less expensive than in the US system. Americans are getting financially screwed by the Healthcare industry.
AMEN!!!
Paul; Sure, and let’s recall how these Demoncrap politicians including the present Mayor were all “ranting with idiots like AOC defund the police” and turn these major metropolitan cities into “sanctuary cities” for all the despots and criminals that come here from other countries along with our own homegrown archetypes that get slaps on the wrist for even heinous crimes and let loose and told to report back!
So what could that message possibly say about “Rule of Law” or the lack thereof and obviously rather “embolden criminals” far and wide to just “do their thing as in the Crime and not do the time in NYC,” where even the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan international gang now has a headquarters!
“Citizens have voted for this crap” and allowed the “Demoncraps and Globalist elites” to “destroy civil order and human respect” like a raging forest fire for many years and now; this is “the tip of the spear of evil” that is lurking all over the Nation!
Wayne Ricarte; are you suggesting that the “Slap on the Wrist Advocates” and “Lefty Lucy” crowd like the “Squad and the Demoncraps” have merit? Those like Piglosi, Biden, Harris, Soros, Gates and so many others that are the “biggest crooks and criminals” in America that have created all of this lawlessness and “GREED” atmosphere!
Cold blooded Murder is never excusable and anyone who does such an act is immoral, anti-God and outright “Demonic Evil!”
Execution of such is required and proper punishment!
Effective healthcare is expensive. Getting someone else to pay for your healthcare is also expensive. Choose the right plan for your situation. It’s a contract, with very few “gray” areas. Do your homework. Now, the rates will increase, to pay for bodyguards. Satisfied ?
Maya Certs, very good points! Also the overall healthcare Industry is just that a money making business so people rather than being used to Sick/Care should live properly and holistically with proper rest, a diet of good wholesome foods, plenty of exercise or physical activity and stress relief; to basically keep your machine running well and stay away from the care/pharma machine as much as possible!
For every person who leaves the USA to get cheaper routine surgery or dental work there are probably dozens who come to the USA to get the best life-saving care for critical needs. Granted, our health system has massive redundancy where every provider wants every new high-tech device that may only be used an hour a day. Same with big pharma where R&D expenses for all drugs including both those that make it to market and most than fail, the R&D expenses are recovered against the successful drugs sold in the USA while the drugs are sold to other countries without all that R&D included in the drug price.
Bob, you point to the “crux” the real issue is that Big Pharma as the prime example doesn’t have yours or my “Best Interests at Heart” at all! They are only crunching numbers to get the most profit and R&D doesn’t happen to really cure something but rather to be sure they have a captive audience for life if possible to just keep people hooked into the Pharma Scam, they put their money not so much where their mouth is but where they can make oodles of profit, so keeping people sick is profitable!
Lots of brainwashed sheeple out there, that have been conditioned by the Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Government with the Main Lame-stream Corporate Media Conglomerates to turn to “Them” for all your health needs, like the TV ads say ask your doctor if this or that new drug is right for you, in other words get the Doc to write prescriptions; which is basically modern day Sorcery or Witchcraft to get the pills or jabs you need in order to be a healthy human being; “all about Big Money is the game!”
I had written this a while ago. There’s massive collusion between our Government, FDA, NIH, CDC and Congress how or better yet why would I ever trust Big Pharma (Fauci trust the science) or believe anything they say again! They’re so plugged into our government legislators via “lobbyists and outright partnership” with people like Fauci or his cohorts, “I’d have to be a total imbecile to think they have my back and are out to protect my best interests as a citizen and consumer!” Couple this with the “Globalist Agenda” and the fact that “Communist China our biggest nefarious adversary” now has “the upper-hand on the manufacturing of many or most of our pharmaceuticals;” so I say trusting this scenario is far beyond “throwing caution to the wind” and is literally “hanging one’s self!~”
“Pharmakeia” is a Greek word that can mean drugs, sorcery, or witchcraft. It is used in the Bible to condemn the abuse of drugs in pagan worship, idolatry, and deception.
Written thousands of years ago, still holds true as great words of truth and wisdom from God.
Revelation 18:23-24 “23 Even the light from a lamp will never shine in you again! The voices of the bridegroom and his bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the tycoons of the world, because all the nations[a] were deceived by your magic spells![b]24 The[c] blood of the saints and prophets was found in her,[d]along with the blood[e] of all those who had been killed on the earth.”
The “crooked ways of the world” was revolving around money and the powerful groups or rulers even back then as now manipulating the masses for money and more power over them; to control like herd animals (sheeple) or like Biden called us “Garbage.”
I’ve found that it was best for me to search out and find a “good medical doctor” Hypocratic Oath for Real, “do now harm” who prefers nutrition over pharmaceuticals and who will hold you to a high standard of health. I do believe that even just one component to overall good health is a good “gut health,” or what is called “the gut microbiome.” The proper balance of the so called good bacteria in the trillions within the gut is an autoimmune function, which actually preserves our bodies overall health on many levels! But so many folks throw their whole health out of whack by not protecting this balance, eating trashy highly processed foods and those with many added chemicals or artificial ingredients and even things the body doesn’t need or harm it!
Plenty of good sleep is also a part of this, as when we sleep specific hormones are released in the brain that mobilize body repair and regeneration that only happens when sleeping! So here I must add that this idea of “an appropriate doctor” is definitely one who is “not a pill pusher” who is in synergy with the pharmaceutical companies to push the idea that staying healthy is getting “more pills prescribed” by the doctor, in order to live “a good healthy life!” God designed us to function well in the earthly environment with proper maintenance of the beautiful system He provided! A doctor that has an extensive background from education in naturopathic medical colleges is highly desired and the best way to see this!
They are the sort that can diagnose while helping to prevent and treat acute or chronic illness appropriately, in order to restore and establish optimal health through the opposite of a pill pushing tactic, to seek balance and harmony, by instead supporting the person’s inherent self-healing process.
Life is no “joy ride” but is rather a struggle and mixture of hardships and at times “temporary joy.” At least striking a balance is a worthy goal in this dilemma which we are locked into. Why that is so, is simple, “we are human and fallen in nature so there is no perfection here on earth while we are living a flesh overwhelmingly material life;” we need to be freed from it and that will only happen when we “serve the Father’s will and through the redemption of Jesus Christ” then saved to become who each of us was created to be, “a child of God in heaven.” So “we struggle here and there is no panacea” which modern medicine and the like via Big Pharma can say they can offer, saying they have a new pill or this or that cure, and come to us with all your problems we can work on curing you; most if not all of it baloney! Rather it’s “all about the money honey” that they rake in playing the public, a captive audience!
Big Pharma which is a double edged sword as well, with some benefiting while multitudes are damaged with many side effects and even eventual death caused by the very thing prescribed to help them; say like one med prescribed when you read the counter reactions caused by it. But the money rules so now that industry is at times a sort of witchcraft in a modern form. Pharmakeia comes from the ancient Greek, so translations are a bit varied.
Galatians 5:18-20 “But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; 20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,”
“If you lived in parts of Africa, the definition given above would apply in all its meanings. I have visited churches in third world countries where the sin of magic spells and relying on witch doctors is very much prevalent; even among Christians.” (evidenceforchristianity.org/galatians-519)
Typo error *“good medical doctor” Hypocratic Oath for Real, “do now harm”* “Hippocratic Oath” “do no harm”
on the description of the killer who ambushed the CEO, close inspection of the still shotbifvhim taking a two-handed aim at his target, l believe if you observe the shooter’s grip you may come to the conclusion that he is Left Handed. Also by photos shown on the news, he owns two back packs. one with dark colored shoulder straps, and the other one with wide white colored straps. also his f facial grooming is too neat and alludes that he has his hair cut and eye brows trimmed. Suggests he is above middle class with a sizable income, a Type A extrovertive personality, possibly single and actively looking to pickup women. Suggests he drives a BMW or some other import. If the bullet casings were etch with an engraver rather than sharpened nail, he may be in the jewelry business. Don’t know anything about his weapon however a semi automatic e.g., Beretta, Sig Sauer, etc. would be kept clean and well oiled, sort of what he appears to prefer about himself. Aiming for the victim’s back and hitting his leg was not intentional. l believe he was holding too tight and nervous as this was his first dance! Doubt he was intentionally aiming for a moving narrow lower body part! Makes no sense. The jamming is a mechanical aberration due to using a mechanically defective weapon. Doubt if he ever fired it before. Finding his pack pack in CP was accidental as he dumped too hastently as if people were also in the vicinity. Most likely he tossed the weapon as far out as possible then dumped the backpack. Need more divers plus K-9’s to work a wide search especially near the lake.
Some interesting profiling and forensic analysis observations!
Did Any Expert Notice The Shooter Has a White Backpack??-This Could Become a Pattern Considering The Amount Of Criminal Activity In The Medical Cartel Responsible For Millions of Murders!-Wheres T.Faucinstein??-B.Gates??
Gates so rudely said in public that his vaccine patents and investments are his best money maker with a 20 to 1 return ratio! These bastards are only driven by MONEY, the root of all kinds of evil!
Trusting a glutton snake is a fool’s errand because it will turn on you at its first opportunity to strangle and swallow you whole like a stuffed pig!