- New York police are continuing to search for a suspect after the head of US insurance company UnitedHealthcare was shot and killed in what they’ve called a “targeted attack“
- Brian Thompson was shot in the back and leg about 06:45 EST (11:45 GMT) on Wednesday outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan
- Investigators say the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” were written on the shell casings recovered at the scene of the attack, the BBC’s US partner CBS News reports
- Police are using facial recognition technology and a discarded phone to identify and track down the suspect, and are focusing on a surveillance image taken in a branch of Starbucks just before the shooting
- Thompson, head of the largest private insurer in the United States, was in New York to speak at an investor conference later on Wednesday
Bullets fired at UnitedHealthcare’s Brian Thompson in New York shooting had words on them, say
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