First responders tried to perform CPR to save the UnitedHealthcare CEO who was fatally shot outside a Midtown hotel on Wednesday morning, harrowing video shows.

NYPD officers were seen in front of the Hilton Hotel, on 6th Avenue, performing chest compressions on Brian Thompson, 50, who was shot repeatedly upon arriving at the hotel around 6:45 a.m. to attend a conference, Fox 5 video shows.

EMTs quickly arrived to bring Thompson, a father of two, to Mount Sinai, with half a dozen officers seen helping lift the victim onto a stretcher. 

Despite the quick response, Thompson succumbed to his injuries after being struck in the back and right calf, police said.

Police sources told The Post that the suspect waited for Thompson outside the hotel and fired at him from a distance before fleeing the scene. 

Photos from outside the hotel show the masked suspect holding a long handgun as he fired at Thompson. Sources told CBS News that the gun was equipped with a silencer.

The suspect, who has yet to be identified, was seen wearing a dark hoodie, black face mask, and black and white sneakers.

He was also carrying a grey backpack.

After the fatal shooting, the masked man fled through the Ziegfeld alleyway, hopping on a bike and riding down 6th Avenue.

He was spotted around Central Park on Center Drive, police said. 

What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

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• Brian Thompson, the CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down Wednesday outside a luxury Midtown hotel in a “brazen, targeted attack,” police said.
• Thompson was named CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Department of Justice.
• Thompson’s wife, Paulette, said her husband had been getting threats before he was killed.
• Thompson’s shooting led to sick support online, and even spurred a tasteless lookalike competition in NYC.
• A person of interest has been nabbed by police officers inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa.
• The suspect has been identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, originally from Towson, Md. He’s an Ivy League graduate who hated the medical community.

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Officials said no arrests have been made, and the investigation is still ongoing.

NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the shooting looks to be a “premeditated, preplanned, targeted attack.”

Mayor Eric Adams promised to catch the killer.

“It appears as though this was a targeted murder,” he said during an unrelated news conference. “It seemed to have been clearly targeted by an individual, and we will apprehend that individual.”

Thompson’s widow, Paulette ‘Pauley’ Thompson, 51, said the family had received threats involving her husband’s career in private insurance, NBC News reported.

“There had been some threats,” she said, according to NBC. “Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him.” 

NYPD Crime Stoppers has put out a $10,000 reward for information regarding Thompson’s murder. 

Andrew Witty, the CEO of parent company UnitedHealth Group, said the firm had been holding its Investor Day conference at the hotel on Wednesday, with attendees left heartbroken by the shooting. 

UnitedHealth Group serves as the largest private insurer in the nation and employs more than 100,000 people across America. It is ranked fourth in the Fortune 500.

Flags at the company’s corporate headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota, were flown at half-staff on Wednesday. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the killing was “horrifying news and a terrible loss for the business and health care community in Minnesota.”

“Minnesota is sending our prayers to Brian’s family and the UnitedHealthcare team,” he said in a statement.