Assassination today in Manhattan

[rchurch314]

Surveillance has unearthed a decent photograph of the suspect so I suppose it's just a matter of time now, before he's identified --- and then caught, unless he decides to kill himself before he's captured.

This ain't CSI. Long way to go.

[kcmets]

Leave the gun, take the cannoli.

[MFS62]

I just heard they have a water bottle he used. I hope they find some DNA on it, so they can identify him quickly.

This sounds like there will be many people who aren't sad at the news.
A Rolling stone article via Yahoo:

One image that made the rounds online was a chart from the personal finance website ValuePenguin, which found that UnitedHealthcare denies 32 percent of all in-network claims relating to individual health insurance plans — twice the industry average. Some pointed to headlines describing how UnitedHealthcare has used an allegedly faulty AI algorithm to assess claims and deny care for seriously ill patients on private Medicare Advantage plans, as described in an ongoing class-action lawsuit brought by the estates of two deceased people who were denied coverage for their care at an extended-care facility.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-li ... 30677.html
He was the one who authorized the deployment of that AI algorithm.

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[metirish]

Hochul loves playing the tough New Yorker , so cringe

[ashie62]

He was paid 27 million a year, 475 times his average employee

Would have been indicted for a 15 million dollar insider stock trade

Medicare for all is what I believe in

Many are saying he had it coming

[MFS62]

(Reuters) -

Authorities have identified the man suspected of killing UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson and are closing in on him, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was quoted as saying on Saturday by the New York Post. He declined to name the suspect.

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[rchurch314]

(Reuters) -

Authorities have identified the man suspected of killing UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson and are closing in on him, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was quoted as saying on Saturday by the New York Post. He declined to name the suspect.

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if you believe Eric Adams on literally anything I have a bridge to sell you, goes right to NYC from Eric Adam's home in jersey.


Apparently the backpack that took them two days to find sitting out in plain sight was actually full of monopoly money.

[batmagadanleadoff]

(Reuters) -

Authorities have identified the man suspected of killing UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson and are closing in on him, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was quoted as saying on Saturday by the New York Post. He declined to name the suspect.

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if you believe Eric Adams on literally anything I have a bridge to sell you, goes right to NYC from Eric Adam's home in jersey.


Apparently the backpack that took them two days to find sitting out in plain sight was actually full of monopoly money.

i believe him. If anything,, authorities probably knew the shooter's identity way before they acknowledged that they did. The surveillance photos of the shooter were very clear, making identification easy, I would guess. Finding him might not be a snap. He's obviously going to go off the grid now.. He can't simply return to his residence. That requires a lot of resources. Or someone has to be willing to hide him. He'll get caught if he doesn't kill himself first. This case is extremely high profile and no expense is being spared.

[whippoorwill]

He doesn’t seem like the type that kills somebody (usually a few kids) and then kills himself.

A) too good looking so probably has a normal social life though he might have just blown that.

B) well dressed so not a loser/loner/pseudomilitant in cammo trying to change the world


Just my two cents.

[rchurch314]

if you believe Eric Adams on literally anything I have a bridge to sell you, goes right to NYC from Eric Adam's home in jersey.


Apparently the backpack that took them two days to find sitting out in plain sight was actually full of monopoly money.

i believe him. If anything,, authorities probably knew the shooter's identity way before they acknowledged that they did. The surveillance photos of the shooter were very clear, making identification easy, I would guess. Finding him might not be a snap. He's obviously going to go off the grid now.. He can't simply return to his residence. That requires a lot of resources. Or someone has to be willing to hide him. He'll get caught if he doesn't kill himself first. This case is extremely high profile and no expense is being spared.

no expense spared of course. Here's a bunch of cops burning some of our cash trying to find him.

https://bsky.app/profile/jphillll.bsky. ... symw2cfs2o



Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures.

[Chad ochoseis]

A suspect "held for questioning" in Altoona, PA, stopping in McDonald's during a break on a Greyhound trip.

So he got on a Greyhound last Wednesday at the GWB terminal and was still riding Greyhounds today rather than just finding a spot and going off grid.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc30.com/ ... /15629943/

[Benjamin Grimm]

He doesn't strike me as a criminal mastermind.

[MFS62]

But he did plan it pretty well - using cash, staying off the grid, the bike, then the escape route through Central Park, etc.
Maybe he wanted to commit suicide by eating the onion on the McDonalds burger.

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[batmagadanleadoff]

He doesn't strike me as a criminal mastermind.

My hunch is that he did not plan to have to go "off the grid". He assumed that he would make a clean getaway, unidentified, and that he would be able to return to his residence and melt back into regular society. He was done in by the vast, ubiquitous really, network of video surveillance and probably would have been caught just the same even if he'd never taken off his mask for a brief moment at the clerk's desk of the hostel where he stayed.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I've seen that photo, but I haven't been paying close enough attention... Was that taken before or after the shooting? And how was it tied back to him?

[batmagadanleadoff]

I've seen that photo, but I haven't been paying close enough attention... Was that taken before or after the shooting? And how was it tied back to him?

It was taken before the shooting, when he was checking in to the hostel. My guess is that authorities were able to trace the shooter back to the hostel through the clothes he was wearing, intensely studying surveillance evidence that led authorities to the hostel. They re-traced his movements backwards, from the killing back to the hostel a few hours before the shooting. Once they zeroed in on the hostel, they then found some video of the shooter without his mask.

[MFS62]

He doesn't strike me as a criminal mastermind.

He reportedly has an engineering degree from PENN.
Not a dummy.
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[Benjamin Grimm]

Donald Trump went to Penn, so you don't have to be a genius to get a degree there, apparently.

But that aside, I guess knowing how to be an engineer and knowing how to get away with murder are two different skill sets.

[batmagadanleadoff]

He was his High School valedictorian in Maryland at a private school that costs about $40k a year to attend today.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, the president-to-be's diploma — which may well have been earned through fraud — aside, a Penn degree is no small thing. Nor is being a Gilman valedictorian.

The young man's family owned country clubs, so it's not out of question that they know the president-elect.

[batmagadanleadoff]

He doesn't strike me as a criminal mastermind.

My hunch is that he did not plan to have to go "off the grid". He assumed that he would make a clean getaway, unidentified, and that he would be able to return to his residence and melt back into regular society. He was done in by the vast, ubiquitous really, network of video surveillance and probably would have been caught just the same even if he'd never taken off his mask for a brief moment at the clerk's desk of the hostel where he stayed.

Maybe he did have contingency plans to go "off the grid". When he was arrested, he had eight fake ID's and a US passport.

[Edgy MD]

Ritzy Baltimore-based family, with a broad history of philanthropy, including extensive support our city's health care institutions, ironically enough.

[Fman99]

I hate the in-depth media scrutiny that high profile murderers get. It just perpetuates the idea that this is one way a sick person can get people to pay attention to them. It's exploitative and gross and I won't be a part of it. I felt the same way about the people who committed the murders at the Boston Marathon. Their names should be buried away with the victims.

[metsmarathon]

I guess knowing how to be an engineer and knowing how to get away with murder are two different skill sets.

not in my experience.

wait... nevermind.

[metsmarathon]

I hate the in-depth media scrutiny that high profile murderers get. It just perpetuates the idea that this is one way a sick person can get people to pay attention to them. It's exploitative and gross and I won't be a part of it. I felt the same way about the people who committed the murders at the Boston Marathon. Their names should be buried away with the victims.

this.

the assassination was clearly about striking at this one guy, but also at the health insurance industry as a whole. that we're all talking about how shitty health insurance companies are even moreso than we are about the murder itself means that this dude got his way. honestly, you might consider him a terrorist.

given the media attention, are we going to now see a spate of similar murders of high profile businessmen, whose companies and/or industries certain people don't like?