I am leaning towards a paid hit. The execution slightly resembles me of the 2006 Moscow assassination of the Far East Governor Tzvetkov. That was over licences for industrial fishing activities or something like that, but the assassin was just waiting behind a newspaper stand across a very busy street and shot across the street with multiple pedestrians. I can imagine that Midtown New York presents the same kind of problem due to people around. I would like to know how good of a marksman the shooter was (how closely cropped were the shots.) The closer, the higher the chance that it was a professional. The victim being the part of the probe seems a valid reason to me. A disgruntled client would be more desperate and won’t follow the victim to NYC, it seems. Also, the assassin looks young (quite flexible). I’d expect an unhappy patient to be from a little bit older age group, although it could be a very young parent. But something prompts a professional hit. Also: a CEO of a medical insurance company is a natural target, but if it is over a personal case (denied treatment), I’d expect the victim more likely to be the person signing the last denial of appeal letter. He’d become the personal enemy.
