NY - UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Midtown. #2

[BUF]

FYI, CNN will have a special tonight on the hunt for the shooter @11:00

 

[Friday Fan]

Maybe, but maybe not.

Two or more industry insiders have stated that investment meetings are for "selected and known invitees" only. There are no blanket invitations, nor can invitations be obtained via: "I work for a bank in a senior position and want to go- btw is the food as tasty as they say it is?" type efforts.

Likewise, they posters also said that security is tight at the meetings to avoid problem people ranging from pain in the neck protestors to say, unibomber types. IDs are needed to get in and are checked against invited guest lists. Invitees are then given badges that likely need to be shown when re-entering.

As a result.... your feeling of the meeting being announced, but the location being kept confidential could well be right.

Meeting is on their website. Would copy and paste, but formatting is weird. Other posters noted that many corporations tend to hold meetings at the same locations. So, it wouldn't be hard to figure out. Yes, protesters are always an issue. But doubt they anticipated something like this.

UnitedHealth Group to Host 2024 Investor Conference

UnitedHealth Group will host its annual Investor Conference for analysts and institutional investors in New York City on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, beginning at 8:00 a.m. EST.

www.unitedhealthgroup.com

 

[Lore Listener]

The video appears to have been taken from about 12 W 85th Street, facing east, so he would have been traveling west toward the Hudson River.

Gun from Connecticut, fake ID from Jersey.

 

[soap mama]

 

[*LD*]

I think options of places to kill him were probably rather limited. I'd guess he spends 90% of his time in Maple Grove, Minnesota, where he lives and looks like his office was 30 min away in Minneapolis. It would probably be hard to shoot someone and make a getaway there.

The killer would be limited to where Brian's work travel took him, and maybe thought NYC would be an easy place to get lost in the crowd?

Yes, I also think it was strategic to not do anywhere near his hometown.

As a CEO, he's likely taking weekly biz trips out of MSP and is home a max of 12 days a month.

 

[comegetburnt]

Only thing about the Metro North theory is why would he have then ridden his bike back to the upper west side of Manhattan (especially since he'd already ditched the backpack), unless just to throw them off his trail. That would not have been a direct route (which route would have been to go north and east to the Harlem station).

 

[jimg77]

It's an illusion because it almost blends in with the base of this vertical thingamabob.

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The thingabob is a traffic cone from Hilton saying loading zone.

 

[Charlot123]

Good shooter, but a clown for going to Starbucks for his Frappuccino lol

I'd bet on Chai option. ))
And, I think he is rather methodical and likes his morning rituals.

 

[armchairagatha]

I think options of places to kill him were probably rather limited. I'd guess he spends 90% of his time in Maple Grove, Minnesota, where he lives and looks like his office was 30 min away in Minneapolis. It would probably be hard to shoot someone and make a getaway there.

The killer would be limited to where Brian's work or maybe personal travel took him, and maybe thought NYC would be an easy place to get lost in the crowd?

Yes, I also think it was strategic to not do anywhere near his hometown.

Unless he had heavy security how hard would it be to get him in his hometown with presumably no cameras and no people around as he walked to his office? In Manhattan, there was a bystander (no word if they got hold of her as a witness) and no guarantee someone wouldn’t try to overpower him.

 

[Charlot123]

LE gained new video of someone on a bike on streets of upper west side about 7:00 am after the shooting that could be the shooter.

The fake NJ drivers license he used to check into the hostel seems to be a bought fake drivers license as when LE checked the number, it didn’t exist.

Per CNN

NJ might be simply "close to NY", like CT.
On the other hand, Rutgers where his favorite author is a professor, is located in NJ.

 

[setyourselffree]

The video appears to have been taken from about 12 W 85th Street, facing east, so he would have been traveling west toward the Hudson River.

Found the surveilance camera on Google Maps, on the rear corner of 251 Central Park W, which is actually on W 85th.

 

[ElizaKate]

Surely he didn't go back to his hostel to check-out...

 

[Friday Fan]

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Nov 30th checkin at the hostel? Wow, that's several days! So, it's possible to bring or obtain extra jacket if it's him.

 

[Charlot123]

Unless he had heavy security how hard would it be to get him in his hometown with presumably no cameras and no people around as he walked to his office? In Manhattan, there was a bystander (no word if they got hold of her as a witness) and no guarantee someone wouldn’t try to overpower him.

Security is always relative. Has been proven many times. It can protect someone from a crazy street person, but if "they" want to really kill someone, they will.

 

[rogue ant]

"Police believe the shooter used a B&T Station Six, known in Great Britain as a Welrod pistol, according to police sources."

 

[armchairagatha]

Security is always relative. Has been proven many times. It can protect someone from a crazy street person, but if "they" want to really kill someone, they will.

Ok, so the question remains. Why Manhattan and not Minnesota?

 

[LinasK]

I'd bet on Chai option. ))
And, I think he is rather methodical and likes his morning rituals.

Still pretty amateurish for a hitman. And you'd think a professional would know that Starbucks has surveillance cameras. He took off his mask to drink his drink, and he's grinning. I don't think the nose is a fake prosthetic.

 

[LinasK]

Ok, so the question remains. Why Manhattan and not Minnesota?

Easier to blend in?

 

[citizen_sleuth]

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The ID was used to check in on Nov. 30 — what was the suspect doing in NYC during those 4 days before the shooting? Was he conducting surveillance or scouting entry/exit routes?

 

[CrimeDawg123]

Ok, so the question remains. Why Manhattan and not Minnesota?

I'm going to guess because the gunman is familiar with the area.