(5 Dec 2024)
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New York – 5 December 2024
1. Various of a reward poster on a lightpole outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jake Offenhartz, The Associated Press:
“The masked gunman who fatally shot the chief executive of United Healthcare on a Manhattan sidewalk Wednesday used ammunition emblazoned with the words deny, defend, and depose. That’s according to law enforcement officials who also told the AP that the shooter used a silencer on his gun. A motive in the killing has not yet been identified, but the words may refer to a strategy used by insurance companies to deny coverage to patients.”
3. Signage of Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan
4. Wide of entrance where Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot
5. Close of surveillance camera
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jake Offenhartz, The Associated Press:
“As the search continued Thursday, police released surveillance footage of a man believed to be the shooter inside an Upper West Side hostel prior to the shooting. Separate surveillance video shows the individual emerging from two parked cars and opening fire on the CEO, Brian Thompson, as he was headed to a midtown hotel for an investor conference.”
7. Various signage of Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan
8. Additional entrance to hotel
9. Exterior of HI New York City hostel
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Matheus Taranto, HI New York City hostel guest:
"Yesterday I came here, I saw the police, like, 5, 6 p.m.. Then I went upstairs. I saw, like, I saw one police here. They were upstairs. I saw two more, like a detective, then okay, like something happened, but I was not sure of anything."
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Matheus Taranto, HI New York City hostel guest:
"I didn’t saw him. I didn’t saw anything unusual. It was like even after the police came, everyone was like casual. And even today, I just got breakfast and all, it looked like everyone’s, like, calm."
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STORYLINE:
Two law enforcement officials say a masked gunman who stalked and killed the leader of one of the largest U.S. health insurance companies on a Manhattan sidewalk used ammunition emblazoned with the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose." The official were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke Thursday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The words on the ammunition may have been a reference to tactics insurance companies use to avoid paying claims.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson died in a dawn ambush Wednesday as he walked to the company’s annual investor conference. The reason behind the killing remains unknown and the shooter is at large.
Images released by police of a person they say is wanted for questioning in connection with the shooting match the lobby of the HI New York City hostel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Both feature a black-and-white checkered floor and a distinctive bench in the shape of a semicircle.
Matheus Taranto, a guest at the hostel who’s visiting from Brazil, says he saw police at the lodging Wednesday evening. He said an officer wouldn’t let him access a bathroom where he wanted to brush his teeth.
AP video by Joseph R. Frederick, Ted Shaffrey, and John Minchillo
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