The wife of slain health insurance CEO Brian Thompson said Wednesday that her husband had been getting threats before he was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan.
“There had been some threats,” Paulette Thompson told NBC News in her first comments since her husband was murdered early Wednesday.
Thompson is pictured aboved with his wife and family. Facebook / Paulette Reveiz
Paulette Thompson came out, saying that her husband had been receiving threats before the shooting. Facebook / Paulette Thompson
Thompson was the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. UnitedHealth Group“Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage?” she said, referring to her 50-year-old husband’s role as CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s insurance division.
The suspect in a surveillance photo. Obtained by NY Post
The killer escaped on a bicycle. NYPD/AFP via Getty ImagesWhat we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
- 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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“I don’t know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him,” she told NBC News by phone.
“I can’t really give a thoughtful response right now. I just found this out and I’m trying to console my children,” she said, confirming that police had told her it is believed to have been a “targeted attack.”
Brian Thompson, 50, was shot in the chest early Wednesday by a masked man who was waiting for him outside the Hilton hotel as he headed to a conference.
The street outside of the Hilton closed during the police investigation. Matthew McDermott
NYPD investigators at the murder scene. Matthew McDermottHe was rushed in critical condition to Mt. Sinai hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, police said.
No arrests have been made.
Crime Stoppers is offering a $10,000 reward for information.
