UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Fatally Shot Outside Manhattan Hotel In

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Police respond as CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson, 50, was shot as he entered the New York Hilton after 6:45am on December 4, 2024 in New York. The chief executive of one of the United States’s largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed outside a New York Hilton hotel in an apparently targeted hit Wednesday, US media reported. (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
8:03 AM – Wednesday, December 4, 2024

The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was gunned down Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan in what police say was a targeted attack.

NEW: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot and k*lled in Manhattan by a man in a black mask.

The 50-year-old CEO was outside of the Hilton hotel when a man came up to him and shot him in the chest.

The masked man, who had a grey backpack on, then fled into a nearby… pic.twitter.com/umBPdGby17

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Brian Thompson was at the hotel around 6:46 a.m., for a conference, when a masked man reportedly waiting for him shot him repeatedly and took off eastbound, according to the New York Post.

Police said that Thompson was shot in the chest and was rushed to the Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Andrew Witty, CEO of parent company UnitedHealth Group, said the firm had been having its Investor Day conference at the hotel on Wednesday, which Thompson was there to attend.

The conference was called off immediately due to “a very serious medical situation” with one of its team members, Witty said in a statement.

Meanwhile, officials said no arrests have been made yet and that the investigation is still ongoing.

Officials described the suspect as a white male wearing a cream-colored jacket, black face mask, and black and white sneakers. They also said he was carrying a gray backpack.

Multiple sources said the shooter wasn’t a guest at the hotel but it is still unclear if he had other business there.

When the suspect spotted Thompson, he began to fire from a distance, striking him multiple times, according to police sources.

Additionally, the masked man then fled through the Ziegfeld alleyway and hopped on a bike to escape.

Thompson worked at UnitedHealth for the last 20 years and took the position of CEO in 2021 and was based at its offices in Minnetonka, Minnesota, according to his LinkedIn account.

Before joining UnitedHealth, Thompson spent six years in Minneapolis at PwC, an auditing and accounting firm.

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