Shell casings found at the scene suggest the killer has a message for the medical insurance industry.
The man who gunned down the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare may have been denied health coverage, a former FBI assistant director has said.Frank Figliuzzi was reacting to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York on Wednesday morning.'UnitedHealthcare has 1.7 million insured people and many are upset with the denial of coverage,' Figliuzzi told Newsweek on Thursday.Thompson was gunned down shortly before 7 a.m.
on Thursday.First responders rushed the CEO to Mount Sinai West hospital after the attack, where he was pronounced dead at 7:12 a.m. ET. Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference on Wednesday that Thompson was shot in both the back and the right calf.ABC reported that the shooter was caught on surveillance video at 5 a.m. on the morning of the shooting outside Frederick Douglass Houses, a public housing project on the Upper West Side.They also reported that police are closing in on the suspect's identity and obtained a search warrant for an address where he might have been staying.
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