NYT: New Image Shows Suspect in C.E.O. Shooting in Back of Taxi

[Dennis Donovan]

NYT - (archived: https://archive.ph/sdBVk ) New Image Shows Suspect in C.E.O. Shooting in Back of Taxi

The New York Police Department released two images as the manhunt for the gunman who fatally shot Brian Thompson, chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, continued.



By Nicholas Fandos
Dec. 8, 2024, 11:58 a.m. ET

The Police Department has released two new images of the man it believes fatally shot the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, including one showing him in the back seat of a taxi on the day of the shooting.

The images were released late Saturday night as the frantic investigation continued to identify and track down the killer of Brian Thompson, 50, the health care executive gunned down outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday.

One image, captured from the front of the cab, appears to show the unidentified suspect peering forward from the vehicle’s back seat with his face partially obscured by a blue surgical mask, a dark hat and a black hood. The other image, apparently recorded through a window, shows the man walking on the street wearing the same mask, a black puffer jacket and a hood pulled over his head.



The police have said that the man caught a taxi around 7 a.m. Wednesday on the Upper West Side, about 15 minutes after he shot Mr. Thompson. He took the cab uptown to a bus terminal near the George Washington Bridge, where they believe he may have caught a bus out of the state.

Though the killing set off a manhunt that stretched well beyond New York City and commanded days of national attention, the man remained at large on Sunday, and the police were still searching for information about who he was and what had motivated him to shoot Mr. Thompson.

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[leftstreet]

1. This guy sure had a lot of different masks and jackets n/t

[Voltaire2]

2. Note that the ai surveillance state has access to images from a vast array of video cameras.

All this data is connected into facial recognition systems to find people of interest.

These systems are going to be used against us by this regime. We are going to be living in an AI Stasi State. Everything you do online goes into the system. Everywhere you go you are watched by video cameras.

[erronis]

7. The Chinese regime has been testing this on the Uygers and has now set it up on all people

(except, of course, the ones in control.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_China

[DFW]

3. I hope their facial recognition is more accurate than mine

I couldn't choose between Tom Cruise and Charlie Sheen, but it was definitely one of the two.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. I can narrow that down a bit: ...

If it was Charlie Sheen, the bullet cases would all have the word "Winning!" written on them, instead of "Deny", etc.

[Blue_Roses]

14. Lol...

[dweller]

4. I have a feeling

Pics resembling the guy in a variety of locales will soon proliferate to overwhelm the worldwide web to the proportion of the
‘where’s Waldo’ phenomena …
or a new Pokémon Go character

🫤



✌🏻

[choie]

5. I thought he had been seen

walking into the Port Authority terminal and never came out of it.

[Dennis Donovan]

6. I think a bus terminal near the GWB:

The police have said that the man caught a taxi around 7 a.m. Wednesday on the Upper West Side, about 15 minutes after he shot Mr. Thompson. He took the cab uptown to a bus terminal near the George Washington Bridge, where they believe he may have caught a bus out of the state.

[ecstatic]

11. What happened to the bike and central park?

[Prairie Gates]

13. The narrative they're providing is that the cab came after the bike ride

They say he rode the bike into Central Park, ditched the bag, rode out at 77th street, that he was still seen on the bike at 85th street, but he got in a cab almost immediately after that. I agree that the timeframe is pretty tight: the murder would have occurred at 6:45, but he got into a cab at around 7? That said, it's about a 15 minute bike ride from 54th and 6th to 85th and Columbus, and he was fleeing a murder, so maybe. He probably planned to get to the George Washington bus terminal in under an hour, which he apparently succeeded at doing.

[erronis]

8. I know a lot of people enter that hell-hole and never exit (at least in a recognizable format.)

[Prairie Gates]

9. He went to the George Washington bus terminal on 178th street

Smart, that. Port Authority was probably swarming with cops within a few minutes of the shooting, GW less so.

[JoseBalow]

12. I wish he had gotten into the Cash Cab

[Meowmee]

15. I could be wrong but I think 2 were involved

They said they found a burner phone that was discarded by the shooter. Who was he talking to. And how did he know exactly where the victim would be, and when he would be there etc.