by Joe Marino, Amanda Woods, Ronny Reyes and Matt Troutman at New York Post
The CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare was gunned down Wednesday outside a luxury Midtown hotel in a “brazen, targeted attack” by a chillingly methodical killer who used a firearm with a silencer, police said.
Brian Thompson, 50, was repeatedly shot by a masked gunman who had been lying in wait outside the Hilton hotel along Sixth Avenue, where the CEO was hosting an investors’ conference, said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
“Many people passed the suspect, but he appeared to wait for his intended target,” she said.
The cold-blooded gunman – who remained on the loose late Wednesday – could be seen in disturbing surveillance video obtained by The Post calmly firing multiple gunshots into Thompson at about 6:46 a.m.
Thompson stumbled after the first bullet struck, briefly turned to face the gunman, who coolly pulled back the weapon’s slide with each shot, the video shows. He helplessly tried to crawl away as the shooter’s unleashed a barrage of bullets.
Law enforcement sources said it appeared the shooter not only used a silencer,…
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