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Editor's note: This video supra was filmed during a Dec. 4 quality league concerning the probe into the sidesplitting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
NEW YORK (WPIX) – A antheral successful Pennsylvania was being questioned Monday successful transportation with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, sources told Nexstar's WPIX.
The antheral is successful Altoona, Pennsylvania, astir 233 miles westbound of New York City, according to sources. He's believed to person a weapon akin to the 1 utilized to termination Thompson successful beforehand of a Midtown hotel, sources said.
The New York City Police Department was en way to question the man, according to sources.
The improvement came arsenic dogs and divers returned Monday to New York’s Central Park portion the dragnet for Thompson’s killer stretched into a sixth day.
Investigators person been combing the parkland since the Wednesday shooting, and person been searching astatine slightest 1 of its ponds for 3 days, looking for grounds that whitethorn person been thrown into it.
The NYPD offered a $10,000 reward for accusation successful the targeted shooting decease of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson successful Midtown connected Dec. 4, 2024. (WPIX/NYPD)Thompson was arriving astatine an investors gathering astatine the New York Hilton Midtown edifice conscionable earlier 7 a.m. erstwhile helium was changeable successful the backmost and limb by a masked gunman, according to the NYPD.
He was rushed to a infirmary wherever helium was pronounced dead. The suspect, who has not been identified, was waiting for Thompson to get astatine the hotel, constabulary said.
Bullet casings recovered astatine the country had the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” written connected them, sources antecedently told WPIX.
A backpack believed to beryllium to the fishy was recovered successful Central Park connected Friday, but the weapon utilized successful the shooting was not successful it, sources said.
The gunman arrived successful New York City connected a bus that originated successful Atlanta, sources said. A fake New Jersey ID was utilized by the fishy astatine a hostel helium stayed astatine earlier the shooting, according to sources.
The fishy was believed to person fled the metropolis by bus aft the shooting, constabulary said.
The FBI is offering up to $50,000 for accusation that leads to an apprehension successful Thompson’s slaying. The NYPD is besides offering a $10,000 reward.
Late Saturday, constabulary released two further photos of the fishy that appeared to beryllium from a camera mounted wrong a taxi. The archetypal shows him extracurricular the conveyance and the 2nd shows him looking done the partition betwixt the backmost spot and the beforehand of the cab. In both, his look is partially obscured by a bluish mask.
This is simply a processing story.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
