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Yet he oddly exited the scene on a Citibike - which requires a credit card to use, and likely has GPS tracking...Odd.
Once your in Central Park, its pretty easy to blend in especially if you've stashed stuff there. There are loads of places without cameras and its pretty empty this time of year at 7am in the morning.
Do we know what triggered all of this?Link, it was a targeted attack.https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/us/brian-thompson-united-healthcare-death/index.html
Who thinks they can get away with murdering someone these days? You must be prepared to be gunned down yourself or go away for a long time to prison
Silencers aren't typically the mark of an amateur either. If he's not a pro, he planned this meticulously for a long time.
Not only do the bikes have GPS, you have to "rent" them, either by the day or longer ( I have a year membership)... So the specific bike will be linked to a specific means of payment- which, afaik is only via credit card. Not the most anonymous means of escape.
It's pretty easy to speculate on the motives related to somebody running a health care company though. Other CEOs... Probably less easy. And of course we'll all know more as the facts come in- but I don't see a problem speculating.
Unless he found one that hadn't been properly docked, or he stole it. Or payed somebody else to steal it.
I just assume that anybody who can intercept a CEO on the street has at least thought things through. Obviously I want this guy to be caught, but I'd tentatively assume that he had a well-conceived escape plan. This isn't a random crime that an impulsive person successfully pulls off.
Assuming he either stole it or used someone else's login info to unlock one, those ebikes can get pretty far. Plus, you can get through CP and across some of those Harlem bridges (even the GW if one was inclined) fairly innocuously and quickly on an ebike.
Good info, didn't know that
I posted just above... The Citibike usage- will be interesting (to me at least) how that angle plays out, because somebody had to have rented that bike.
Yep. I ride from the LES to Randall's Island and back on them. And into Brooklyn as well. Bridges, hills,.. the pedal assist versions move quick and cover ground easily.
I guess he could have stolen someone's physical Citibike key as well which would make tracing him much harder.
The fob... Sure. But at least gives the police a starting point. That was my point- somebody rented this bike, so they can trace it back to them and then move forward. May not provide anything, but better than him taking off on some random ebike.
Watching the videos on X the killer is collecting his casings between shots and calmly walks away
Criminals are generally not the smartest folks. Hope they catch him.
Yeah, their denial rate is twice the industry average (32% vs 16%)
I think there's a decent chance that they won't. If the shooter wasn't known to Thompson, the fact that he wasn't apprehended at the scene probably means he got away with it. That assumes that he didn't do something manifestly stupid like using his own credit card to check out his Citibike. But if this guy went through enough planning to figure out where Thompson was going to be at a specific time on a specific day, with a plan for how to commit the murder and what escape route to use, he probably didn't make an obviously dumb mistake that all of us would think of in the first 15 seconds.
Especially given how quickly NYPD was one the scene. Basically the Citibike was the best and quickest mode of escape provided he didn't use his info to get it.
I'll be shocked if some early details turn out to be incorrect!
I think it’s actually fairly interesting that he would go get a drink at a place surrounded by cameras theoretically shortly before he did this. I’m assuming they’ll be trying to pull those cameras first.
Continuing that line of thinking, it’s more than a little interest that seems to be the only photo they are releasing. Either the police are holding back info for the investigation or the guy knows where the other cameras are and avoided them on the way in (presumably on an ebike) and the way out. If it’s the later, short of getting lucky with a fingerprint/DNA, he’s going to be hard to find.
AI is working away.
I don't think Chem knew the police were going to release a photo of the man with half his face in the shot but in hind sight it was a pretty good observation and police lucked out that they got a decent shot of the guy
Similar here. And then they mentioned on the news how his company declines 32% of some sort of claims, while the industry average is half that, at 16%? That is glaring. I couldn't help but think about it, and also how it would feel to know you're somewhat in charge of those facts? To what degree, who knows, but it's no wonder some of his peers have guards, especially in this day and age.
95-99% of people would be much better off keeping the premiums and investing the money themselves, and then paying out of pocket for expenses.
Nypost mentioned citibike in article with Starbucks photo this am ... Didn't say according to police, so could be wrong.
What stops them
