The CEO of the largest health insurance company in the United States was stabbed to death on the street. The police offered a reward for the arrest of the murderer.
The New York City Police Department reported on Wednesday that a shooting occurred at the entrance of the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan at around 6:46 a.m. that day, and a 50-year-old man was shot in the chest. The police believe that this was a premeditated assassination and are still searching for the killer. Subsequently, major American media reported that the man who was shot was Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealth Insurance, a subsidiary of the U.S. listed company UnitedHealth Group. The police disclosed that the person who was shot had lost consciousness when the police arrived at the scene and was pronounced dead after being sent to the hospital. According to people familiar with the investigation, the killer wearing a black mask waited at the entrance of the hotel for about 10 minutes in the sub-zero temperature in New York, and then opened fire at a distance of about 20 feet from Thompson, using a gun with a silencer to shoot multiple times. The killer then jumped on a bicycle and fled. The New York police said that they would offer a $10,000 reward to anyone who provides clues to this case, and the police also released photos of the suspect shooting and escaping on a bicycle in the reward notice.
