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The day after the “targeted” assassination, Wednesday, December 4 in Manhattan, of Brian Thompson, head of the health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, the New York police are actively looking for the shooter, obviously experienced, who however left several clues behind him.
How long will he escape the New York police, who have been on his trail for 24 hours with the help of agents, drones and digital data? Prepared but not professional, organized but insufficiently meticulous, the man who killed Wednesday, December 4, in the heart of Manhattan, the boss of the first American health insurer, in what the authorities describe as an assassination “target”is actively sought. And in a city that has both the largest police department and the most developed digital surveillance system in the world, local authorities hope to find him quickly.
-If, for the moment, no information has filtered out on his profile, his identity or the motives for his action, Wednesday did, however, provide numerous details on the journey and modus operandi of Brian Thompson's killer, 50, who was scheduled to attend a UnitedHealth Group investor conference. In a city saturated with public and private surveillance cameras, the police but also the American media have reconstructed the movements of the shooter, from his exit from a subway station to his escape on an electric bike through Central Park, the green lung of the most populated and touristic city of
