Last Update December 08, 2024 09:27pm ET

Police are on the hunt for the masked gunman who fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City Hilton hotel on Dec. 4. Authorities are actively searching for clues in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Big Apple.

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Fast Facts

•  The manhunt for the suspect who murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has entered its fifth day. 
•  Thompson was shot early Wednesday morning outside of a hotel in Manhattan in New York City. 
•  Footage obtained Friday by Fox News shows the suspect riding a bicycle in Manhattan’s Upper West Side neighborhood following the attack. 
•  Police have released multiple images of the suspected gunman. One surveillance image showing his face was obtained while he was flirting with a hostel staff member prior to the shooting, reports say. 
•  Authorities recovered a backpack linked to the murder that contained a jacket and Monopoly money. 

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7 hour(s) ago

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Police source reveals ‘most significant’ piece of evidence they have on CEO killer

A screenshot from surveillance footage released by the NYPD shows the alleged suspect wanted for the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (NYPD Crime Stoppers)

A former New York Police Department (NYPD) official revealed the most useful clue authorities have in the investigation of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder.

John Miller, former NYPD deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, told CBS News on Saturday that the hostel surveillance video of the person of interest is the “most significant clue to date.”

The photo of the suspect smiling reportedly happened after a woman in the hostel asked to see the suspect’s “pretty smile,” a source told CBS. Police interviewed her in the wake of the shooting.

“They were having a flirtatious moment and he pulls it down and he gives a big smile and that one informal moment between two human beings remains at this moment the most significant clue to date in this whole case,” Miller explained.

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6 hour(s) ago

New York Post op-ed expresses anxieties over state of New York in wake of CEO assassination

New York Police Department (NYPD) officers outside the New York Hilton Midtown in New York, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (Source: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

An op-ed published in the New York Post on Sunday expressed anxieties about the state of New York in the wake of the brazen killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

In an opinion piece entitled “The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is a bad sign for New York City,” Manhattan Institute fellow Nicole Gelinas argued that the killing was “yet another blow for a fragile Gotham.”

“Thompson’s killing came barely two weeks after Ramon Rivera, sprung on no-bail supervised release on a recent theft charge, after having just served a months-long sentence in Rikers for repeat thefts and burglaries, stabbed three stangers to death across core Manhattan,” Gelinas wrote.

“And Thompson’s killing came the day before one teenage migrant fatally stabbed another, also in core Manhattan — a five-minute walk from City Hall Park, a place generally teeming with armed officers.”

The writer also expressed concern about how Brian Thompson’s murderer was able to blend in by concealing his identity and wearing a mask.

“Until early 2020, the video of a masked perpetrator would have seemed jarring, out of place in New York,” Gelinas noted. “Now, men on mopeds and e-bikes whiz by us fully masked every day — and not because of the weather or COVID.”

The piece went on to argue that Thompson’s murder “has spurred the finance and business world to beef up security.”

“[Executives] don’t know yet if the Thompson killing is a one-off, or the start of a terror campaign against CEOs,” Gelinas wrote.

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10 hour(s) ago

Retired NYPD Lt. says person of interest is ‘fascinated’ by attention: video

A retired New York City Police Department (NYPD) Lieutenant and former NYPD commander is shedding light on the manhunt for the suspect who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and what investigators are doing to track him down.

“He’s not a professional, but he is calculated. He obviously planned this out to a very good degree as well. He planned his escape route, he planned everything prior to it,” Joe Cardinale told Fox News Digital.

Cardinale added the fact the killer left behind the bullets and left messages on them, like “depose,” makes him think it could be someone involved in a civil suit with UnitedHealthcare or at least connected, making this not a coincidence or “wrong place, wrong time” situation.

Read the full article about the Brian Thompson murder by Stepheny Price

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Person of interest pictured in backseat of NYC taxi just minutes after UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting

Police sources spoke to Fox News about the person of interest in the Brian Thompson murder. (Source: NYPD)

Police sources told Fox News on Sunday that investigators have pieced together a timeline in the murder of Brian Thompson.

Investigators say that the suspect shot and killed the CEO, hopped on an e-bike and rode to Central Park after the shooting. The suspect then dropped his backpack in a wooded area of the park, walked through the park and then got into a taxi. He possibly got rid of more evidence on the way.

The police source also said that the recently-released picture of the person of interest inside a taxi was taken just minutes after the shooting.

After taking a taxi to an uptown bus terminal, the suspect fled New York City.

Fox News’ Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.

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12 hour(s) ago

‘SNL’ slammed for ‘classless’ UnitedHealthcare murder segment on ‘Weekend Update’

Colin Jost and Michael Che, hosts of the “Weekend Update” segment on “Saturday Night Live,” tackled the UnitedHealthCare CEO murder. (Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images)

“Saturday Night Live” swung at and missed with some of their audience this weekend.

The sketch comedy show came under fire after spending nearly a minute and a half of its “Weekend Update” segment discussing the recent murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, including America’s fascination with the alleged gunman’s appearance.”

The manhunt continues for the assassin who gunned down the CEO of United Healthcare on Wednesday, and it really says something about America that a guy was murdered in cold blood and the two main reactions were, ‘Yeah, well health care stinks!’ And also, ‘Girl, that shooter hot,’” co-host Colin Jost quipped.

Read the full article about Saturday Night Live by Caroline Thayer

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13 hour(s) ago

Who was UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect on the phone with moments before shooting?

The suspect was apparently seen making a phone call prior to the shooting on Wednesday. (NYPD Crime Stoppers)

A mysterious apparent phone call by the suspect wanted for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson could provide a “real data point” for investigators to zero in on, law enforcement experts tell Fox News Digital.

Video has emerged showing the unidentified gunman apparently holding a cell phone to his ear less than 15 minutes before he opened fire in Manhattan. Police later recovered a phone dropped in an alley that the shooter used to flee the scene. 

“If indeed he was on a phone call right then – his phone was live – you can dump the cell tower. You are going to need the search warrant for that and it’s a ton of data,” former NYPD inspector and Fox News Contributor Paul Mauro told Fox News Digital. 

Read the full article about the murder of Brian Thompson by Greg Norman

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