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Shocking video footage has emerged showing the execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by a masked gunman. pic.twitter.com/ImgqPzaSyf
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) December 4, 2024
Early this morning United Healthcare insurance company CEO Brian Thompson was walking on a New York street headed for the Hilton Hotel in midtown. As security video makes clear, a man in a hoodie then walked up behind him and opened fire. As the AP reports . . .
The shooter appeared to be “lying in wait for several minutes” before approaching Thompson from behind and opening fire, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Police had not yet established a motive.
“Many people passed the suspect, but he appeared to wait for his intended target,” Tisch said, adding that the shooting “does not appear to be a random act of violence.”
In other words, the shooting was a targeted hit. Thompson was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. The shooter is reportedly still at large.
The shooter, who police said appeared to be a man wearing a jacket, face mask and carrying a backpack, fled on foot before pedaling an e-bike into Central Park a few blocks away. The shooter was at large, sparking a search that included police drones, helicopters and dogs.
What’s also unusual — and something most corporate media accounts have missed — is the fact that the shooter used a suppressed pistol in the attack. Watch the video in the tweet embedded above. The killer racks the slide of the handgun after each round is fired. At one point the killer has to knock the slide back into battery with the heel of his support hand.
That seems to be the result of the use of either a home-made (3D printed?) silencer or something like a “solvent trap” like the kind sold through sketchy outlets like wish.com. The killer also didn’t seem to know that most semi-automatic handguns require the use of a booster or Nielsen device in order to cycle correctly. The killer was clearly aware of the issue as he cycled the gun after each shot without hesitation.
Police issued a poster showing a surveillance image of the suspect pointing what appeared to be a gun and another image that appeared to show the same person on a bicycle. They offered a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
Thompson’s wife, Paulette Thompson, told NBC News that he told her “there were some people that had been threatening him.” She said she didn’t have details but suggested the threats may have involved issues with insurance coverage.
More to come if and when the killer is arrested. Watch this space.
NYPD releases images of suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO https://t.co/B5OcLMEFIr pic.twitter.com/UwN2cL9Vci
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 4, 2024
And oddly, executives sold a bunch of stock right before the assination, seeming to avoid a loss in stock value after the assination….maybe.
How do you know this? Link please.
He doesn’t. The stock actually rose today.
Idiot.
UnitedHealth execs reportedly sold millions in stocks before DOJ investigation went public | Fox Business Video
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6365576594112
UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down in Manhattan sold company stocks just before DOJ probe made public | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americaDOJ launched probe into UnitedHealth before CEO’s murder | Fox Businesss
DOJ launched probe into UnitedHealth before CEO’s murder | Fox Business
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/doj-launched-probe-unitedhealth-insider-trading-attempted-stop-monopoly
C’mon Dan you can do better. It took me less than 30 seconds to find all these and numerous more links.
Did his company cheat a customer or customers, out of their insurance coverage?
It’s an insurance company, their •job• is to deny coverage, or else they go bankrupt in short order…
Unpossible! Such assault weapons are illegal in NYC
So is murder. But, as the military truism goes “Stuff* Happens!”
* cleaned up so I don’t trigger some little darling and get banned.
” Such assault weapons are illegal in NYC”
Exactly, NFA ‘toys’ are verboten in New York state in general, and likely doubly so in NYC proper, so that video is obviously ‘fake news’.
Are you gonna believe me, or your own lying eyes… 😉
I think masks are illegal in NYC too.
Someone else pointed out, as he was cycling his rounds, he was capturing the spent shells.
Police found 3 unspent rounds at the scene. The gun was malfunctioning.
That would be an indicator of a Type 3 malf. Or a bungled response to another type.
this thing of labeling malfunctioning by type number is tactical elitism. if the gun malfunctions rack the slide and try again if that doesn’t work remove the magazine and put a new one on and try again. people, including many instructors, make this topic way more complicated than it needs to be.
So, is it elitist to “tap, rack, bang”? Asking for a friend.
Yes simple jack, it is. Just say “load the gun.” We all know load the gun means insert the magazine and rack the slide. Do the same thing. If the gun doesn’t fire: insert magazine and rack the slide. We don’t need a bunch of special new tacti-terms to complicate such a simple thing. If your gun isn’t working, load it again. We don’t need to spend time and money on some special type 1, type 2, type 3 malfunction clinic run by tactical elitists. Rant complete.
“The shooter also didn’t seem to know that most semi-automatic handguns require the use of a booster or Nielson device in order to cycle correctly. The killer was clearly aware of the issue as he cycled the gun without hesitation.”
How could “the shooter” not know of the problem, yet “the killer” be clearly aware of the problem? I think this passage might need to be rephrased.
Perhaps the assassin knew there was a problem with the gun cycling, but did not know why. Admittedly that seems like an odd knowledge gap.
That aside, the reaction to the malfs does suggest the assassin had practiced with the pistol + suppressor combo ahead of time.
a lot of people think silencers are magic and unaware of that to make a super quiet setup takes a lot of knowledge of what gun to use as host, what caliber and even grain loading, powder charge (even more exotic is that some of this super quiet ammo is lacquered and only available for gov’t/military direct sale) as well as what type of can such as wet or dry, baffles, wipes or even limited number of uses of the can.
you can have a setup that while hearing unsafe doesn’t scare off the animals a mile out hence for hunting deer its perfectly fine with ear pro, or you can have a setup that you only hear the click of the trigger and hammer and the round hitting its target. there are smgs from ww2 that you only hear the shell casings hit the ground and the target being hit
I have a Nagant revolver with a custom can and it sounds like a cap gun. If I had the money I could have had the thing be outfitted with a thinned, vented barrel with a can that fitted over the barrel with custom baffles like the KGB used. That setup is so quiet you only hear the click of the trigger.
If he was using a homemade hence illegal can with a legal purchased handgun then odds are he had no idea what a booster is or that he needed subsonic ammo and was startled at how loud it was but went with it anyway