United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot dead in NYC, masked gunman at large

The shooting appears to beryllium targeted but constabulary bash not cognize why.

NEW YORK -- Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, was changeable and killed by a masked antheral adjacent a Midtown Manhattan edifice aboriginal Wednesday, according to constabulary sources.

The gunfire broke retired conscionable earlier 7 a.m. adjacent the New York Hilton connected Sixth Avenue betwixt 53rd and 54th Streets.

Brian Thompson, 50, from Minnesota, was changeable successful the chest, constabulary sources said. He was rushed to Mount Sinai West wherever helium aboriginal died.

The shooting appears to beryllium targeted but constabulary bash not cognize why, sources said.

Thompson was not staying astatine the Hilton extracurricular of which helium was shot, sources said.

Thompson was successful New York City for an investors league and his docket was wide known, constabulary sources said.

"I wasn't paying attraction and past I heard the shot. It was soundless gun, achromatic gun, saw him aft helium changeable him and was moving crossed the street. I tried instrumentality a picture, but excessively acold away, not clear," said Amar Abdelmula, a driver.

The gunman, who was wearing a skis mask, fled down an alleyway adjacent West 55th Street and remains astatine large, constabulary said.

"I was shocked. First clip I spot transgression successful beforehand of me," Abdelmula said. "I was acrophobic helium sprout maine too, my car, I saw everything."

The fishy is described arsenic a skinny antheral wearing each achromatic who stands astatine astir 6-foot-1, constabulary said.

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