Summary
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in a targeted attack outside a New York Hilton hotel, with investigators describing the killing as meticulously planned.
The gunman fled on foot, then by rental bike, and possibly left the city via bus. Shell casings at the scene had words like “deny” and “defend” inscribed, hinting at a motive linked to Thompson’s work.
Experts suggest the shooter may have military or weapons experience but left key clues, including surveillance footage and discarded items.
Police are analyzing evidence, including DNA, to identify the suspect.
Just ask his sister Maggie where he bought his bunker with his Donnie Darko money… Nobody? Not one fucking mention he looks exactly like him??
I mean, it certainly was the first thing that popped to mind. But no, I didn’t mention it.
Omg ty!
It’d be the cherry on top if he left evidence that linked other health insurance CEOs.
If he planned this much and they don’t know his names homie is long gone by now
Those discarded items might not even have his DNA on them. Everyone knows about DNA evidence nowadays, if he’s really on the ball it’d be easy enough to pick up some random decoys.
Doesn’t it also require the DNA to be stored on file to be matched? They haven’t even got a suspect to get DNA from.
No, they could pinpoint you just by dna of relatives. Hence why the whole 23andme is such a terrible idea.
If those were his items, and his dna on those items, sure. Iirc, this is how they got the BTK killer- a familial match.
Not BTK, Golden State Killer.
They can’t pinpoint you. DNA is about as terrible as fingerprints and lie detectors. They’re all full of false positives.
Sure its not perfect but if they can narrow it down from a few million people to just a few 100/1000’s that makes fibding someone much easier .
Nah, this tech isn’t useful to prove you’re a suspect. Its only use is to prove that someone is not a suspect
They got his face on camera… maybe. Assuming it’s the same smiling guy and with a partial DNA match, I’d think that’s enough to get a court order to get a blood sample to get a better DNA match.
Of course that’s assuming the smiling guy is the same guy AND one of his relatives did 23andme AND they can find and arrest him.
Who the heck is Denny? And why is he deaf?
Denny is a person who knew how to make waffles. Waffles that fall from above, because of deaf ears.
I donno what the pose Denny did to get that guy deffened like that. But he should have better spelling on the next one. I’m calling him Pete. Look Pete, c’mon man carry a dictionary with you. You can’t be heroing evil dwers and expelling eberithin allgrong laik DAT!
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How about these fucking class traitors use their resources to catch the murderers of decent everyday people instead
There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who benefit from the system, those who are exploited by the system, and those who deluded themselves into thinking the system benefits them.
What about the people who delude themselves that they are not beneficiaries of the system?
Why don’t you call the tip line and ask them yourselves? Your son could be shot in the face in broad daylight and they were just move on the next day. They would never look for your son’s murderer.
Why are they protecting the ultra wealthy more than they are protecting the working class??
Maybe the police are not here to protect us after all?
Ok like the police suck but they would absolutely look for a murderer in that instance. No reason to exaggerate when they’re bad enough
I played a cop in a video game once and know that they investigate murders of poor/homeless people.
So happy for you
i doubt the effort would be actually equal. dont know about ny, but where im from, the double standard is blatant
Let’s see here. It’s currently the 7th. I wonder what other things happened in NY that need attention. Everyday is indeed a busy day.
I’ll just leave this here.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/homicide.page
Statistically, there should have been at least one more murder in the city since then. Looking at victim demographics in that chart and it’s pretty obvious why this is getting so much attention…it’s very uncommon for a white, non-hispanic person to get murdered in the city.
Good on him.
If you look at this jacket in this picture closely and compare it to the one at the scene of the crime, they don’t match. This is the wrong guy.
They don’t care… They just need a person to kill and make this go away…
CNN and others released the photo and included a disclaimer that these photos weren’t official. They literally made it up
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The Unabomber special!
Ok. Anyways what do you think of the upcoming football match?
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
Sometimes when my iron gets low I want to take bites out of mud.
Grass tastes bad
No jumping in the sewer!!!
Good.
Oh no. What if they never find him? What if this poor, sweet, humble, *checks notes* absolute monster of a healthcare CEO never gets justice.
Narrator: but he already got justice.
Narrator: but he already got justice.
Further proof that if you’re smart enough you can usually get away with it, and a reminder that cops are only effective because must criminals are fucking stupid.
Well yeah. The real criminal is dead. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Most murders aren’t premeditated killing of what is basically a stranger.
If you’re not on the scene when the police arrive, not a family member, not somebody with a known grudge and not a rival gang member, don’t brag about the killing to your friends, and don’t visibly flee the scene in your own car, then they’re reduced to the CSI stuff, which I’ll wager is far less effective than it is on the show.
And also don’t give your DNA to 23 and Me.
And here I was, thinking it was sheer coincidence and good luck. I guess that’s why I’m not “an expert”.
You know the rich are shitting their pants over this. It’s gotta be like a David and Goliath thing for them. It’d be a great time to start a private security company.
I’m sure Academie (or whatever they’re calling Blackwater these days) and the Pinkertons are about to see a lot of new business.
Every time I am reminded that the Pinkertons still exist, I go replay a couple parts of Red Dead Redemption 2…
I mean yes, but also these execs are more than rich enough to just have a 24/7 guard detail on retainer. They’ll be mildly inconvenienced by that tho so bets are they’ll step back and put a pazzi as the face of their companies.
Elon was building droids to replace workers, but now they are going to have to use them to protect Elon.
Someone will find a way to hack the droid and turn it on the ‘protected’ individual.
Hopefully the hacker waits until the droids develop a good name for themselves and all the CEOs have one. Then flip them all at once iRobot style.
It’s gotta be like a David and Goliath thing for them.
This is the bad timeline though. I’m just waiting to hear that this guy was a pro hired by a C-suite rival. Not some hero of the commons.
That would be kind of a bummer. Still a gain for society
I doubt it would be a gain if someone, who hired someone to kill this guy, would become the next CEO.
There is going to be another either way
Good being done for bad reasons is still good
Good being done for bad reasons is still good
What about bad being done for good reasons? Still bad? (hint: murder)
Cool motive still murder
Idk, the implication it seems your making is that this murder was bad, but I’d argue the result is pretty good here regardless of intentions (though their intentions seem pretty clear given the bullet casings)
No that one’s fine actually
As much as I would totally hate to see the average board room turned into a kindergarten classroom: Not gonna happen. Just expect to see more stories about security guards “roughing people up” and more cops told to bring a spare piece and a dime bag to the site of a self defense shooting when one of the roid fiends unloads on someone for looking at them funny.
It’ll fade. Unless…
It happens every three months or so. With escalating difficulty. All they way to being found dead alone in their office. Then slow down to every 18 to 36 months. That’s when they’d be scared enough to actually change corporate policies.
As someone once said: We only have to get lucky once. You have to be lucky every day of your life.
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but something like a bomb in the boardroom,
…also risks killing innocent people in adjacent parts of the building.
The janitor and the guys fixing the elevator don’t need to become collateral damage.
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After writing my comment, I thought of mass shooters tweaking their tactic, and going to different kinds of locations. Like certain board rooms.
It’s going to be harder after Wednesday. I’m certain Sodexo, ABM, Cintas, etc are going to scrutinize all the support staff working at every F500 from now on, since that’s ideally the closest working class staff to any C-level.
And these C-levels are all gonna get private, armed security baked into their comp packages now - the guys who are actually competent, not John With His Dad’s Revolver.
I don’t want to be a downer, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_deed has a long history of doing that and so far it kind of culminated in world war 1.
Certainly the assassination of Ferdinand is a proximate cause of WWI, but there were much greater forces in play. The great powers had giant mechanized armies for the first time, they had plans for the deployment of millions on very strict deadlines, and they had the belief that failure to meet those deadlines would mean national destruction.
I think it is more plausible to argue that propaganda of the deed helped to end the gilded age and usher in the New Deal era, which was America’s golden era.
I also act under political desperation. Only under the most optimistic assumptions will electoralism be able to save us from climate change; currently the most likely outcome is human extinction. If the propaganda of the deed has only a 5% chance of saving us from our modern gilded age and the resultant climate-induced end of civilization, then I say it is a chance we must take for we are running out of serious options.
Politicians in particular should be rethinking about how much they really want to be complete shitheads in public. Perhaps turn down the glee when they enact harmful legislation as well.
