NY - UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Midtown. #5

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If someone asked you to plot out the perfect crime and youhad to choose between a Minneapolis suburb or Midtown Manhattan. Which would you choose?

How about if your freedom was on the line?

This just doesn’t seem like a paid hit. Not for the person pulling the trigger or for whatever idiot would pay someone to do this. Especially for the payer.

Moo
I would choose the location farthest from my home and set it up to look like a hit on a hated insurance company. I would never consider something like this, but so many of the murders of spouses or partners are about love, revenge or money.


JMO.
 
Somehow I get the idea they consider this victim to be some magnitude more important than all the other single people gunned down on the street every night across the nation. I wonder why this victim is worth more resources. Just my opinion.
Everything about this assassination was designed to provoke the reactions we’re seeing. The determined police response, the fear, the cheering on from people who hate BT’s company. Every aspect of it demands attention. There were bystanders. It was Manhattan. Evidence was left where it obviously be found. Icing on the cake: Monopoly money.
 
Older people. Solo women travelers. Bachelor and bachelorette partiers. People who like to hang out in hostels and talk to other traveling people.

Does anyone else think that this suspect could easily be of college age, though? So, for him, perhaps it was protective coloration (and more money to spend elsewhere on his plan).
He looked pretty young, (and happy) in that one photo where he demasked. I completely understand staying in a hostel. Not for the economy of it, but for yes, the protective coloration. Maybe he'll turn out to be a modern day East coast DB Cooper.
 
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Somehow I get the idea they consider this victim to be some magnitude more important than all the other single people gunned down on the street every night across the nation. I wonder why this victim is worth more resources. Just my opinion.
it could possibly be the media that’s making it a bigger deal and not necessarily NYPD themselves? it might just look like it since they’re being asked by numerous reporters for updates etc JMO

This case did make me think of Brandon Woodard — he was killed by a gunman on the streets of midtown Manhattan in 2012 and it was also caught on video. I can’t say if NYPD is spending more time on this one than they did that, but Brandon’s case did eventually get solved:
 
Everything about this assassination was designed to provoke the reactions we’re seeing. The determined police response, the fear, the cheering on from people who hate BT’s company. Every aspect of it demands attention. There were bystanders. It was Manhattan. Evidence was left where it obviously be found. Icing on the cake: Monopoly money.
I agree.

Master manipulation on a massive scale.

jmo
 
If LE and the FBI do know who he is based on leads from the hostel image circulating without the mask and other dna and fingerprints found…

Why would the FBI increase reward money from them to $50,000 today for tips and leads into the arrest of the suspect. If they already figured out who he is based off the evidence they do have.. that’s a lot of money to throw out for more info on someone they are narrowing in on.

Moo… I hope I’m wrong. Just feels like they don’t know who he is yet if they needed to offer more money for people to come forward.
 
The evidence in support of that would be that there seems to have been a level of knowledge of the victim's precise and specific behaviour. Like the killer knew that at that time in that place the victim would be vulnerable.
NYPD seems to have ruled that possibility out. NYPD Chief of Detectives said yesterday “Nothing in our investigation at this time so far indicates that it had anything to do with his personal life.”
 
I don’t have a criminal record but I was fingerprinted for employment (background check). This guy may be a good marksman, but he’s a sloppy criminal. He left prints all over the place as well as DNA.
I've said from the first I heard about it that whoever did this wants to be caught, but after sending everyone on a wild, convoluted goose chase.
 
If LE and the FBI do know who he is based on leads from the hostel image circulating without the mask and other dna and fingerprints found…

Why would the FBI increase reward money from them to $50,000 today for tips and leads into the arrest of the suspect. If they already figured out who he is based off the evidence they do have.. that’s a lot of money to throw out for more info on someone they are narrowing in on.

Moo… I hope I’m wrong. Just feels like they don’t know who he is yet if they needed to offer more money for people to come forward.
They announced that right after their announcement that they entered the investigation, which came shortly after LE discovered he had likely fled NY.

It’s very common for them to offer rewards in this situation, so I’m reading nothing into it.
 
Just feels like they don’t know who he is yet if they needed to offer more money for people to come forward.
Agreed. I don’t think they know. The killer felt they wouldn’t find him as long as he got out of NYC. If he’s confident enough to stuff Monopoly money into that backpack, he’s well aware of all the other stuff that initially seemed like mistakes. It’s all part of the show. I don’t know what gives him his confidence but the confidence itself is undeniable.
 
I don’t have a criminal record but I was fingerprinted for employment (background check). This guy may be a good marksman, but he’s a sloppy criminal. He left prints all over the place as well as DNA.
He may not have finger prints on file. He very likely does not have a criminal record, otherwise he would have worn gloves.
 
Somehow I get the idea they consider this victim to be some magnitude more important than all the other single people gunned down on the street every night across the nation. I wonder why this victim is worth more resources. Just my opinion.
I think it's the potential implications on the broader society, plus the brazenness of the attack in a popular location being captured on video.
 
Somehow I get the idea they consider this victim to be some magnitude more important than all the other single people gunned down on the street every night across the nation. I wonder why this victim is worth more resources. Just my opinion.
About 65 million tourists come to NYC (Manhattan) a year. So, they spend lots of money there. This was an executive there on business gunned down in a brazen attack. The victim was a CEO for one of the biggest health insurers in the world. Of course, it is going to get a lot of attention.

In the big scheme of things, no life is better than another; however, this could very well affect tourism (and the money it brings to that city).

JMO.
 
I really do think he’s a new type, @MassGuy .
One for the books.
Absolutely agree. This individual has created a new paradigm, born of and customized to the current Zeitgeist, IMO.

I shudder to think of the copycats and wannabes who may follow in his wake, though most of them will likely botch, bungle and be summarily caught.
 
They announced that right after their announcement that they entered the investigation, which came shortly after LE discovered he had likely fled NY.

It’s very common for them to offer rewards in this situation, so I’m reading nothing into it.
Thank you! I didn’t realize that. I genuinely enjoy learning more from others who understand and know more on here. Especially about the logistics of how this all works between different LE agencies.
 
I've said from the first I heard about it that whoever did this wants to be caught, but after sending everyone on a wild, convoluted goose chase.
If he wants to be caught, or considers it inevitable, I think he will quickly take his own life to leave the mystery of "why" hanging as a threat. Maybe he's so reconciled to die, that's why he was happy. At the hostel.
 
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