‘Brazen targeted attack’: police press briefing after CEO shot dead outside New York hotel

The CEO of UnitedHealthcare, one of the US’s largest health insurers, was fatally shot in the chest on Wednesday in midtown Manhattan by an unidentified man. At a news conference, police said they believe Brian Thompson, 50, was killed in a “brazen targeted attack”. New York’s police commissioner Jessica Tisch said: ‘I want to be clear at this time, every indication is that this was a premeditated, pre-planned targeted attack"

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