NEW YORK: New York police have been looking on Thursday (Dec 5) for the person who killed UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson in a brazen assault outdoors a Midtown Manhattan resort and was final seen fleeing into Central Park.
Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth’s insurance coverage unit, was shot from behind on Wednesday morning in what police described as a focused assault by a masked assailant mendacity in wait.
It got here simply earlier than the corporate’s annual investor convention on the Hilton on Sixth Avenue.
The phrases “deny”, “defend” and “depose” have been carved into the shell casings discovered on the scene, police sources advised ABC and the New York Publish.
Reuters has not independently verified that info. The phrases mirror the title of a e book important of the insurance coverage trade revealed in 2010 titled Delay Deny Defend.
Investigators haven’t but named a suspect and have been nonetheless searching for a motive, the New York Metropolis Police Division mentioned throughout a press convention on Wednesday morning. They haven’t offered a briefing since.
