New York investigators are using surveillance video to create a timeline of the suspect’s movements before and after shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on Wednesday. The timeline attributes each moment to Joseph Kenny, New York Police Department chief of detectives.
Thompson was shot by the masked gunman outside his hotel on Wednesday at 6:44 a.m., according to police. Here is the suspect’s possible activities leading up to and after the shooting:
The suspect arrived in New York on Sunday, November 24, at the Port Authority bus terminal via a bus from Atlanta. He took a cab to the vicinity of the New York Hilton Midtown hotel, where he stayed for about half an hour.
On Monday, December 2, Thompson arrived in New York, and the suspect was seen wandering around the area of the hotel on Wednesday morning before heading toward Starbucks. Around 6:17 a.m., surveillance video shows the suspect buying a bottle of water and two energy bars at Starbucks.
The suspect then walked and briefly stopped by a pile of trash near a deli on West 55th Street at 6:19 a.m. Surveillance video captures what appears to be the gunman on the phone at 6:30 a.m.
After leaving his hotel across the street, Thompson was “lying in wait” outside the hotel when the masked gunman shot him in the back and continued to shoot. The suspect then fled northbound through an alley between 54th Street and 55th Street before getting on an electric bike on 55th Street.
The suspect rode out of Central Park at 6:56 a.m., stopped again near 85th Street and Columbus Avenue, and was seen heading northbound on 86th Street. He later got into a cab and was spotted near the George Washington Bridge off 178th Street.
On Friday, December 6, investigators found a backpack in Central Park that they believe belonged to the suspect. The bag is being taken for forensic testing at a lab in Queens.
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/07/us/timeline-brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-killing/index.html