NYPD releases new photos of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged assassin sitting in taxi after NYC murder
The NYPD released new photos of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged killer Saturday night — including one showing him sitting masked in a taxi, taken after the brazen Midtown murder.
The suspect is shown looking directly into a camera as he apparently peers through a divider window to talk to the driver in one photo.
Police have said the suspect took a cab out of the Central Park area after committing the heinous murder outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown, but cops could not say if the image was from that exact ride.
In another photo, also from a screengrab of video from a car, the killer is seen wearing a hoodie and black down jacket as he walks on the street.
These photos are both taken after the suspect allegedly killed Thompson, police sources confirmed to The Post.
Earlier today, the NYPD revealed that the killer’s backpack, found in Central Park, contained a jacket and fake money from the board game Monopoly.
The killer’s weapon is now thought to be a type of veterinarian gun — the kind that is used to put down farm animals that requires a reload after every fired shot, which the suspect can be seen doing on video.
Each bullet casing had a word scrawled in marker: “Depose,” “Delay” and “Deny,” in an apparent reference to a 2010 book “Delay, Deny, Defend,” which posed sharp critiques of the health insurance industry.
Thompson was gunned down Wednesday outside a luxury Midtown hotel in a “brazen, targeted attack,” police said.
That assassination was seen in its entirety on security camera footage — with the killer firing three shots that hit Thompson in the back as he walked to an insurance conference where he was expected to give a presentation.
Police say the suspect may have been either a “disgruntled employee or disgruntled client.”
The suspect would take a bike up Sixth Avenue to Central Park, then take a cab out of the park area, and would eventually arrive at the Port Authority bus terminal near 178th Street, according to the NYPD.
“Those buses are interstate buses,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said in interviews Friday, adding, “That’s why we believe he may have left New York City.”
“We have video of him entering the Port Authority Bus Terminal. We don’t have any video of him exiting so we believe he may have gotten on a bus,” Kenny concluded.
Police say the suspect arrived in New York City via a Greyhound bus from Atlanta prior to the murder.
“The net is tightening,” Mayor Eric Adams told reporters at a Police Athletic League holiday party in Harlem on Saturday.
The mayor declined to say whether investigators knew the suspect’s name.
“We don’t want to release that now,” Adams said.
The manhunt for the suspect is entering its fifth day.
