NY - UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Midtown. #6

[MassGuy]

A man in the Altoona, Pennsylvania, area is being questioned Monday in connection with last week's CEO killing in Manhattan, in part because he was found with a gun similar to the one used in the shooting, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The sources say it is too soon to determine if his case is connected to the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but they are investigating it as a new lead. NYPD detectives are headed to the area to question the person and assist investigators.

Manhunt in CEO killing leads to McDonald's arrest: What we know about person of interest

A man in the Altoona, Pennsylvania, area is being questioned Monday in connection with last week's UnitedHealthcare CEO killing in Manhattan, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

www.nbcnewyork.com

 

[Inthedetails]

BREAKING | NBC News: A man is being questioned in the CEO shooting in Pennsylvania, two senior law enforcement officials say.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1866152810481430885

Let this be HIM!!!

Fingers crossed.

jmo

 

[Rush4087]

That is a good question.

A video I watched suggested that he'd staggered them in the magazine and the reason for him manipulating the gun was to eject a live round from the chamber (meaning it would end up on the floor) rather than clearing a mis-feed.

Definitely looked to me as he was clearing a malfunction, though and the former reason just seems to be unnecessarily complex when you can just drop them.

If the gun was a semi auto (or a B&T bolt action, for that matter), there would have been zero reason to stagger the rounds. It would only slow him down and increase the risk of a malfunction.

If the intent was to commit the murder with the rounds with the words written on them, those rounds would of course had to have been in the magazine. I believe it’s been reported however that the writing was in the three live rounds. If that is the case, it remains a mystery why he would have ever have put those rounds in the gun to begin with. Just drop them at the scene (this was discussed earlier in post #396).

Jmo

 

[snarast]

It's astonishing to me that they haven't. It is a minor expense with an unambiguous, supportive message to the surviving family and traumatized co-workers. There is no more concrete way to say, we at UHC share your grief. Tangible assistance to get the survivors some justice is a clear, kind message that the company stands behind its executives and their families.

MOO

Legal reasons? I think it’s strange too - wouldn’t this be a good time to show compassion? Or that they are capable of having empathy despite Being a corporate machine?

 

[caradana]

It's astonishing to me that they haven't. It is a minor expense with an unambiguous, supportive message to the surviving family and traumatized co-workers. There is no more concrete way to say, we at UHC share your grief. Tangible assistance to get the survivors some justice is a clear, kind message that the company stands behind its executives and their families.

MOO

MOO: I suspect that UHC has been asked not to do that by LE. If there were a giant reward - let’s say $1M+ - the amount of crackpot leads coming in to LE from unhinged people who want to share their theories would be many orders of magnitude higher.

 

[eddie_van]

Assuming the suspect took a southbound bus from the George Washington bus station, this could track. You can get to Philadelphia from the station in about three hours, and Eastern PA/Philadelphia is densely populated enough to "blend in," so it could have been an attractive spot for the suspect to flee to.

It appears the suspect was trying to change transportation modes to keep the police off his tracks: bus, subway, bike, taxi. Maybe after taking a bus from GW bus station, he transferred to an Amtrak or SEPTA train?

yes, I highly doubt the bus is the last mode of transportation he took. A train makes sense, or perhaps he had a car somewhere near a bus stop that he then drove back home, to a place far away from said bus stop.

 

[Tiff23fr]

i do find this a little odd, but maybe they were told not to at this point, for some reason?? (although i'm not quite sure what they reason would be...)
jmo

IMO- They are likely to be very cautious in what could be perceived as setting a precedent

 

[EBW321]

Do you have a link to a LE or MSM source stating that the weapon was not a B&T pistol?

I don’t know what kind of pistol it was, I only know what LE has said so far - and that is that the weapon was a B&T Station-SIX - 9.

Would love for LE to comment more on the weapon used, as if it was not a B&T Station SIX - 9, whoever identified it as such in the beginning created a 1-mile deep rabbit hole that resulted in wasting a lot of LE resources.

I have always thought the B&T was an odd choice. Maybe LE knows that their first reports were incorrect, but are withholding that info, but I see no reason for them to do so. I don’t think giving the perp a false sense of security re: LE knowing the type of weapon will change how he behaves from this point forward.

Did LE find a weapon in the lake but not divulge that information?

All jmo

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This article the police referred to the gun they are looking for only as “veterinary gun used to put animals down without a lot of noise”

They didn’t confirm what type.

However,
In an CBS news article I read this:

“NYPD sources say the gunman used a B&T STATION SIX gun equipped with a silencer.”

"In all of my years of law enforcement, I have never seen a silencer before. So that was really something that was shocking to us all," Adams

NYC hostel at center of UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting investigation: "The most significant clue to date"

An NYC hostel is now the focal point of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder investigation, as police search for a person of interest.

www.cbsnews.com

It appears as though it’s conflicting reports as to full confirmation of exactly what type of gun was used.

 

[Kapua]

After seeing the response online, I sadly think people are not going to give valid tips to find this gunman even if they do spot him. LE has a massive task on their hands.

I think the large cash rewards have incentivized lots of people to give valid and invalid tips, and LE has their hands full sorting through all of them. The full-face pics are grainy, and the one clear shot of him in the taxi only shows his eyes and eyebrows, which look like a lot of men's eyes and eyebrows. There are many people who may resemble him, IMHO. LE may or may not have narrowed it down to one yet. MOO

 

[RobSA]

I don’t think the suspect would still have the gun. Do they mean he was known to have one before the shooting?

 

[Inthedetails]

A man in the Altoona, Pennsylvania, area is being questioned Monday in connection with last week's CEO killing in Manhattan, in part because he was found with a gun similar to the one used in the shooting, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The sources say it is too soon to determine if his case is connected to the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but they are investigating it as a new lead. NYPD detectives are headed to the area to question the person and assist investigators.

Manhunt in CEO killing leads to McDonald's arrest: What we know about person of interest

A man in the Altoona, Pennsylvania, area is being questioned Monday in connection with last week's UnitedHealthcare CEO killing in Manhattan, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

www.nbcnewyork.com

Might not be the assassin....but where'd he get the gun?

jmo

 

[Janitor101]

I agree with this. He is clearly pretty familiar with the City.

I think there's a good chance at least one of his parents was born in a foreign country. By looking closely at the photos that have been posted here, his skin color appears to be very light so I'm guessing the other parent may have been born in the US, hence, his familiarity with US culture.

 

[Curiousobserver]

yes, I highly doubt the bus is the last mode of transportation he took. A train makes sense, or perhaps he had a car somewhere near a bus stop that he then drove back home, to a place far away from said bus stop.

This could also have been a way to trace him. People who bought last minute tickets, didn't go all they way to the intended destinations, dropped off one line and went straight to get a ticket for another etc...

 

[NuttMegg]

I’ve lived my entire life outside NYC, have been there hundreds if not thousands of times. I still get mixed up. It might be my own sense of direction, but this guy either knew the city well or spent a lot of time planning his routes.

Imo 10 days is not enough to acquire his confidence. Just screams grad student, med student, someone who was big city resident. Even cops can tell through body language if a passer by is nervous, new to big city, etc

 

[bestill]

Could he be in custody?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1866155719227023771

 

[EBW321]

I don’t think the suspect would still have the gun. Do they mean he was known to have one before the shooting?

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[MassGuy]

A man in Altoona, Pennsylvania, is being held for questioning in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

The man has a similar gun as the one used in the assassination-style killing, the sources said.

The NYPD is sending detectives to Altoona, the sources said. Altoona is in central Pennsylvania, about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.

UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder

Luigi Mangione, who was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, is a suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, police said.

abcnews.go.com

 

[citizen_sleuth]

A man in the Altoona, Pennsylvania, area is being questioned Monday in connection with last week's CEO killing in Manhattan, in part because he was found with a gun similar to the one used in the shooting, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The sources say it is too soon to determine if his case is connected to the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but they are investigating it as a new lead. NYPD detectives are headed to the area to question the person and assist investigators.

Manhunt in CEO killing leads to McDonald's arrest: What we know about person of interest

A man in the Altoona, Pennsylvania, area is being questioned Monday in connection with last week's UnitedHealthcare CEO killing in Manhattan, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

www.nbcnewyork.com

Interesting wording here -- "he was found with a gun similar to the one used in the shooting"

It reads to me as if this man was stopped by LE for some other reason (perhaps a traffic stop?) and then the gun was found during a subsequent search. JMO.

 

[ND2014]

UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder

Luigi Mangione, who was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, is a suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, police said.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Janitor101]

"A determination of the suspect’s identity should come soon, former FBI profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole said.

“I’m thinking we’re going to know who this is within a matter of a few more days, if that,” O’Toole told CNN. “He’s completely outnumbered. With that kind of manpower behind their efforts, they’re going to come up with the information that identifies him.”

The suspect made missteps before and after the attack that could lead authorities closer to finding him, experts say.

“The ability to stand up against that kind of an investigation, one person can’t do it, no matter how arrogant you are,” she said. “You’re bound to make mistakes.”

Some of the suspect’s actions – such as pulling his mask down on camera and leaving behind inscribed shell casings, a burner phone and a partial fingerprint on a water bottle – have only added to the clues left behind for authorities."

Luigi Mangione, suspect in health care CEO’s killing, charged with murder

After a five-day manhunt that expanded beyond the nation’s largest city and across state lines, a suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been arrested on five charges in Pennsylvania and ordered held without bail.

www.yahoo.com

Underline and bolding my me.

JMO

I so respect Mary Ellen O'Toole!