Who Bumped Off the CEO?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Reuters reports that the gunman has been identified, but the report is behind a paywall.

As to multiple images (surveillance), I believe that most if not all of them are from private security cameras facing the front. Police usually canvas door to door for images.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nyc...ts-2024-12-07/

The article says this info came from a comment Eric Adams made to the NY Post. While it may be true, neither are credible.

[RickeyM]

Adams is bluffing. Releasing the man's name at this point would only aid in his capture. It only take one person who knows him that wants to claim the reward.

[init4fun]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

On a related note, why so much attention to this one particular homicide?

I can answer this one.......

Because the guy was filthy stinkin rich

Poor commoners like us can get offed every day and twice on Sundays, and not even make the 4AM Monday news

While it's hard to actually condone any killing, it's even harder to condemn the killing of one who became so rich preying on the sick. Just rewards.....

Oh, and, yeah Eric Adams ifs full of shit. MAJOR full of shit! If they had the guy's name screw announcing it on only one news source, it'd be a "special report" breaking into every single TV network and annoying alerts on our cellphones.

Adams' ploy is as transparent as a new window on a sunny day.....

[donquixote99]

When people know this man's name, they will know who their new hero is.

Not for everyone; some still have a big 'violence without sanction' is wrong value, and are not strongly anti-establishment in attitude. But these are not majority values now, I don't think. Many who hate big institutions they see as selfish, rapacious, and harmful, and hate the way they act with impunity, are applauding.

Expect some politicians to notice and start a rhetorical crusade against big insurance.

[Oerets]

What surprises me the most is how long it has taken for shooting like this happen. The insurance companies have been pushing the limits of human patience for years for insane profits.

Revolutions, wars have started with such a event.

The old torches and pitchforks coming to get the rich along with the elites.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Adams is bluffing. Releasing the man's name at this point would only aid in his capture. It only take one person who knows him that wants to claim the reward.

This is the most detailed report of events I have read yet, not that I have spent a lot of time on this either.

NYPD releases 2 new photos of man sought in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

NEW YORK — They have seen him smiling on a hostel security camera, but don't know his name. They found the backpack he discarded while fleeing, but don't know where he's gone.

As the search for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killer goes on, investigators are reckoning with a tantalizing dichotomy: They have troves of evidence, but the shooter remains an enigma.

UnitedHealthcare CEO's shooter likely got on a bus and left New York City, police say

Police don't know who he is, where he is, or why he did it, though they are confident it was a targeted attack instead of a random act.

But the report did not mention that Eric Adams is a lying sack of shit.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/08/g-s1-...healthcare-ceo

[Rajoo]

This sure sounds like they have located and arrested the shooter. They would not have released his name otherwise.

Live Updates: Investigators of C.E.O.’s Killing Are Questioning a Man in Pennsylvania

The man being questioned in Altoona in connection with the killing of Brian Thompson is Luigi Mangione, 26, according to three law enforcement officials. Mangione, who was detained in a McDonald's this morning, was carrying identification with his name on it, along with fake I.D., one of the officials said. He has not been charged in connection with the shooting.

The handwritten manifesto found on the person of the man detained in Altoona criticized health care companies for putting profits above care, according to a senior law enforcement official.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...murder-suspect

[Noogies]

Yeah, that's him all right. It'll be interesting to see where the media goes with this: mentally disturbed Unabomber-type, new folk hero or just a common criminal?

[finnbow]

Most of my relatives on my father's side of the family live in the neighborhood of the McDonald's in question and my wife is from the neighborhood where the suspect went to high school. Small world.

[donquixote99]

OK. Hanging out in a McDonalds packing all the evidence? He wanted to be caught.