Surveillance photos from outside the Midtown hotel where a UnitedHealthcare CEO was fatally shot show the moment the masked assailant pulled out his gun to kill his target.

The images, provided to The Post by law enforcement sources, show the suspect, who has yet to be identified, holding a long handgun as he fired at Brian Thompson, 50, on Wednesday morning outside the Hilton Hotel at 54th Street and 6th Avenue.

The suspect fired multiple times from a distance, police said, before fleeing through the Ziegfeld alleyway and hopping on a bike.

Additional surveillance photos show the suspect riding down 6th Avenue on the bike. 

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

Sources told CBS News that the gun used in the shooting was equipped with a silencer.

The suspect was seen wearing a dark hoodie, black face mask, and black and white sneakers. He was also wearing a gray backpack.

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

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

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. 

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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Thompson, who had served as the CEO of UnitedHealth’s insurance division since 2021, had arrived early at the hotel around 6:45 a.m. ahead of an Investors’ Day conference, police and company officials said. 

First responders arrived quickly and tried to perform emergency CPR on Thompson, who was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and right calf. 

First responders arrived quickly and tried to perform emergency CPR on Thompson, who was transported to Mount Sinai hospital. 

Thompson was declared dead later in the morning, police said. 

Thompson, who had worked with UnitedHealth for the last two decades, was based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, according to his LinkedIn account.

The UnitedHealth Group, which employs more than 100,000 people across America, is ranked fourth in the Fortune 500.

The company did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

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

“This is horrifying news and a terrible loss for the business and health care community in Minnesota.” Gov. Tim Walz said in a statement. “Minnesota is sending our prayers to Brian’s family and the UnitedHealthcare team.”