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US health executive shot dead in ‘targeted attack’, New York City police say

Police officers work near the scene where Brian Thompson UnitedHealthCare was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Police officers work near the scene where Brian Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: sources

Brian Thompson, 50, was at the hotel around 6:46 a.m., arriving early for a conference, when a masked man allegedly waiting for the CEO repeatedly shot at him along Sixth Avenue before dashing off on a bicycle, police sources told The Post. 

Thompson (UnitedHealthCare CEO) was hit in the chest, prompting a desperate attempt by first responders to save him with CPR, harrowing video shows

He was rushed in critical condition to the Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, police said. 

surveillance photo obtained by The Post shows the moment the hooded shooter aims a gun outside the swanky hotel at West 54th Street and Sixth Avenue. 

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