NEW YORK: New York police had been looking out on Thursday (Dec 5) for the person who killed UnitedHealth govt Brian Thompson in a brazen assault outdoors a Midtown Manhattan lodge 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” had been carved into the shell casings discovered on the scene, police sources informed ABC and the New York Put up.
Reuters has not independently verified that data. The phrases mirror the title of a e book crucial of the insurance coverage trade printed in 2010 titled Delay Deny Defend.
Investigators haven’t but named a suspect and had been nonetheless on the lookout for a motive, the New York Metropolis Police Division mentioned throughout a press convention on Wednesday morning. They haven’t offered a briefing since.
