An individual of curiosity has been taken into custody for the Midtown Manhattan homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outdoors the Hilton Lodge following a weeklong manhunt, police stated Monday. The person was nabbed in Altoona, Penn., and a gun was recovered, police sources stated.
No costs had been instantly filed.
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Police had been providing a $10,000 reward for any info resulting in the gunman’s seize because the seek for the masked shooter continued. The FBI additionally supplied $50,000 for info leading to an arrest and conviction of the suspect.
Harrowing surveillance footage exhibits the suspect creeping up and capturing Thompson within the again on W. 54th St. close to Sixth Ave. about 6:45 a.m. Wednesday.
The 50-year-old CEO of the Minnesota-based firm was approaching the Hilton to assist put together for an investor day convention, officers stated.
After capturing Thompson within the again, the gunman then coolly clears a jam in his pistol earlier than firing a minimum of three extra instances, the video exhibits.
He fled the scene on a bicycle and disappeared in Central Park however cops picked up his path late Wednesday evening on the Higher West Aspect.
Cops discovered the phrases “Deny,” “Delay,” and “Depose” written on the bullets — a supposed insurance coverage business mantra for delaying claims and maximizing earnings — main police to consider that the killer has a beef with the insurance coverage business.
The gunman arrived in New York Metropolis on a Greyhound bus from Atlanta greater than every week earlier than unraveling his homicide plot — and allowed photographs of his face to go public when he let his guard down flirting with a hostel employee.
NYPD detectives, with the assistance of Port Authority police, have managed to trace the gunman’s actions from when he first arrived within the metropolis. Police sources stated the suspect arrived within the metropolis on a Greyhound bus from Atlanta on the night of Nov. 24.
He discovered his approach to the HI New York Metropolis Hostel on Amsterdam Ave. close to W. 104th St., the place cops recovered photographs of the suspect with out a masks and smiling at somebody behind the reception desk.
The hostel staffer reportedly obtained the suspect to smile by flirting with him and asking him to drag down his masks to “see his handsome face.”
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