UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Manhunt for Thompson’s killer enters second day

Police are said to have found an image of the gunman without a mask, as authorities home in on finding United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer, according to a report.

While the assailant reportedly had his face covered most of the time in his hostel on 103rd and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, with the location first reported by CNN.

And the shooter was seemingly wearing a mask in images captured from surveillance cameras around Manhattan.

Now, police have captured one usable image where he isn’t wearing a mask in his hostel, a law enforcement officer told the outlet.

The gunman is said to have stayed in a multi-person room with two other men, the source said.

Brian Thompson and his wife, Paulette, had been living apart for years, according to a report.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal  who obtained property records, voter data and spoke to neighbors, the couple had been living a mile apart from each other in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

Paulette Thompson said that her husband had recently received threats from angry customers over complaints she believed may have had to do with “a lack of coverage.”

“I don’t know details,” Paulette Thompson told NBC News. “I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him.”

The security firm who had previously provided bodyguard services to Brian Thompson was shocked that the UnitedHealthcare CEO didn’t have protection in New York City, where he was shot dead on Wednesday, after the health insurer’s company was rocked by two protests this year.

“It was normal operation for that company that they would have their own private security team to take care of their corporate executives,” Philip Klein, owner of Klein Investigations and Consulting in Nederland, Texas, told the Wall Street Journal.

UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota, where Thompson, 50, was station had more than 100 demonstrators descend in April and July to protest an alleged “epidemic” of claims denials.

The New York City Police Department has appeared to up its search efforts as it attempts to close in on finding the suspect who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson to death on Wednesday.

After last being seen cycling out of Central Park on West 85th Street just before 7 a.m., according to footage obtained by NBC News, he has since remained at large.

Police have deployed a swathe of investigators – uniformed and plain clothed – dogs, drones and helicopters in the hunt for the assailant, according to The Times.

Investigators were said to be using facial recognition technology to try to identify the suspect from surveillance images – after the suspect was sighted in a Starbucks near the crime scene outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel.

It follows police searching a hostel as they continue to hone in on the identity of the suspect who fatally shot Thompson, according to a report.

Police are said to have searched a hostel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, according to CNN.

Police are said to have searched a hostel as they continue to hone in on the identity of the suspect who fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday, according to a report.

Officers searched a hostel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where they believe the suspect may have been staying, according to CNN.

It comes after police were said to be seeking a search warrant for an undisclosed location in New York City where they believe the killer may have been hiding, sources told ABC News on Thursday morning.

The killer was last seen cycling out of Central Park on West 85th Street just before 7 a.m. and has since remained at large, according to footage obtained by NBC News.

Thompson was shot dead at point blank range at about 6:46 a.m. on Wednesday outside the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan.

The gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a horror early morning shooting left behind a cryptic message – with the words “depose,” “deny,” and “defend” carved into rounds found at the scene.

The three words bear a striking resemblance to a professor of law at Rutgers Law School Jay Feinman’s 2010 book: Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It. The book offers a scathing analysis of the US insurance industry.

“Today the name of the game is delay, deny, defend: to improve their profits, insurance companies delay payment of justified claims, deny payment altogether, and defend their actions by forcing claimants to enter litigation,” the book’s blurb reads.

The Independent has contacted the NYPD whether it is investigating the connection.

Police appear to be drawing closer to identifying the suspect who fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday morning, sources say.

Officers are said to be seeking a search warrant for an undisclosed location in New York City where they believe the alleged killer may have been hiding, sources told ABC News on Thursday.

It comes as the gunman is still at large, and no arrests have been made – with the New York City Police Department offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the assailant.

The suspect gunned Thompson down outside a Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, hitting him in the back and right calf, at approximately 6:46 a.m., according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.

He was last seen cycling out of the park on West 85th Street just before 7 a.m., according to footage obtained by NBC News.

The manhunt for the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a shooting in the heart of Manhattan has now entered its second day, with the killer still at large.

With the gunman’s identity unknown and the motive still a mystery, authorities are trying to piece together the killer’s movements that morning – and where he went next.

James Liddell has outlined from the first moment the suspect was sighted at 5:00 a.m. to the last, two hours later.

The suspect who gunned down Brian Thompson was allegedly seen in surveillance footage exiting Central Park on a bicycle about 15 minutes after the shooting, according to sources.

The video footage, obtained by CBS News, appears to show the suspect cycling out of the park on West 85th Street just before 7 a.m. on Wednesday, the sources told the outlet.

It would mark the most recent sighting of the assailant, following the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s shooting at about 6:46 a.m. He was later pronounced dead in hospital at approximately 7:12 a.m.

Prior to the new sighting, the suspect was last spotted heading north on 6th Avenue towards Central Park at 6:48 a.m. allegedly riding an electronic bicycle.