A healthcare executive is murdered in Manhattan

IIt was still Darkness fell at 6:40 a.m. on December 4 when Brian Thompson walked alone from his hotel to the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Thompson, a Minnesota resident and CEO of UnitedHealthcare, one of America’s largest health insurers, was in town for his company’s annual investor day. Once he arrived at the Hilton Hotel, a masked gunman approached him from behind and shot him several times. He was declared dead at a nearby hospital. Jessica Tisch, the city’s police commissioner, called the killing a “brazen and targeted attack” that “does not appear to be a random act of violence.”