The killer appears to dump an object on trash bags before killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The chief suspect in the killing of Brian Thompson appears to have dumped something on a pile of trash bags before shooting the UnitedHealthcare chief executive in New York.The dumped object may hold vital DNA evidence about the killer's identity.Thompson was gunned down at about 6.45 a.m. on Wednesday near the Hilton Midtown in what the New York Police Department said was likely to have been 'a premeditated, preplanned, targeted attack.
on Friday.He is next seen about 10 minutes later walking by a parking lot on 54th Street, just one street away. That suggests there was some delay between 55th and 54th street as he continued toward the Hilton Hotel, where Thompson was due to address a UnitedHealthcare investor meeting. As he walks by the parking lot he has his hand to his face, either talking on a cellphone or shielding his face from a CCTV camera.
have searched a dorm room of the hostel on 103rd street and Amsterdam, which the suspected gunman was sharing with two other men.Police believe he was carrying fake New Jersey identity, which he had used to book into the hostel.They also believe that he had traveled into New York by bus and that he spent up to a week in the city plotting the killing.
Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference on Wednesday that Thompson was shot in both the back and the right calf.
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