Who was Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare CEO shot dead outside NYC hotel? How did the shooting unfold?
FirstpostUnitedHealthcare’s Brian Thompson was killed on Wednesday morning in midtown New York’s Manhattan. The 50-year-old CEO worked at the Minnesota-based company for two decades and led its insurance division, which employed about 140,000 people, since 2021 Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth's insurance unit, was killed on Wednesday morning outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel. An image of the individual sought in connection to the investigation of the shooting death of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth’s insurance unit, is seen in a still image from surveillance video taken outside a hotel in the Manhattan borough of New York City, US, December 4, 2024. Members of the New York police crime scene unit pick up cups marking the spots where bullets lie as they investigate the scene outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan where Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot Wednesday, December 4, 2024, in New York. Dave Ricks, CEO of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly who spoke at another business conference in New York on Wednesday, said Thompson’s killing was shocking.