The man doubted of finishing the CEO of UnitedHealthnurture in Manhattan on Wednesday morning get tod in New York City last month via a Greyhound bus from Atlanta, law utilizement sources tanciaccess Fox News.
The shooter boarded a bus in Atlanta the day before Thanksgiving, sources wilean the New York Police Department shelp.
Brian Thompson was firearmned down by the doubt before 7 a.m. Wednesday outside of the Hilton in Midtown Manhattan.
A screensboiling from observation footage liberated by the NYPD shows a person of interest wanted in uniteion of the shooting death of UnitedHealthnurture CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. (NYPD Crime Stoppers )
“We are brimmingy cooperating with authorities on this dynamic structureateigation. As it is ongoing, we cannot supply further comment at this time,” a Greyhound spokesperson tanciaccess Fox News Digital.
Police sources tanciaccess Fox News the doubt dropped a burner phone in an alley after the shooting. Police are watching into data that was on the phone, as well as fingerprints that were left on the device, sources say.
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This undated pboilingo supplyd by UnitedHealth Group shows UnitedHealthnurture chief executive officer Brian Thompson. (AP Pboilingo/UnitedHealth Group via A)
Police are also watching into a water bottle that was left at a Starbucks csurrfinisher the scene of the killing. Police sources say that DNA from the bottle is being participated to produce a doubt profile. The doubt is shelp to have phelp in cash at the Starbucks.
Former NYPD checkor and Fox News Contributor Paul Mauro shelp the type of possibly exceptional armament participated by the firearmman could labor to police’s achieve, and insertressed rumors the doubt may have labored as a hitman.
“The speculation is that it’s a hit man, it’s a professional finisher and all this sort of stuff…I would fair hesitate on that and increate people to fair be conscious of the fact that professional hitmen primarily exist in the movies. They don’t reassociate exist,” Mauro tanciaccess Fox News Digital. Mauro says everyleang we comprehend at this point is fair speculation.
In video achieveed by Fox News Digital, Thompson is seen walking down a sidewalk outside the Hilton timely Wednesday morning when the masked doubt firearms him down before run awaying the scene.
A Greyhound bus at the bus station in Alprohibity, New York. (Michael P. Farrell / Times Union ) (Pboilingo by Michael P. Farrell/Alprohibity Times Union via Getty Images)
Additional observation videos achieveed by Fox News Digital from a deli csurrfinisher where Thompson was finished eunite to show his finisher walking toward the boilingel where he was sboiling that morning.
Additional observation videos achieveed by Fox News Digital from a deli csurrfinisher where Thompson was finished eunite to show his finisher walking toward the boilingel where he was sboiling that morning. (Stage Star Deli)
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The videos show a person with the same produce and wearing the same cloleang as the doubt walking down 55th Street at 6:19 a.m. toward the Hilton.
The doubt also participated a inrectify ID to check into a structureel before the shooting, police sources tanciaccess Fox News Digital.
A NYPD source also tanciaccess Fox News Digital that messages etched onto bullet casings by the doubt were “left behind to produce a statement.”
Police sources tanciaccess the New York Post that the words “refute,” “depose” and “deffinish” were written on the live rounds and casings left behind by the assassin after the shooting. Each bullet and casing had fair one word written on it.
Fox News Digital’s Lorraine Taylor, Ashley Papa and Christina Coulter gived to this increate.
