Experts in the field of forensic psychology said the assassin who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was likely motivated by “very personal anger,” Newsweek reported on Saturday.
Thompson was shot and killed just prior to 7 a.m. local time on Wednesday outside of the New York Hilton Midtown. New York Police Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said he was shot once in the right calf and in the back. He was declared dead 30 minutes later in what authorities say was a “brazen, targeted” and “premeditated” assassination.
As the manhunt for the unidentified man reaches its fourth day, authorities now believe he fled Manhattan by taking a taxi to the Port Authority facility at 178th Street and then boarded a bus out of New York City. Shells were found at the crime scene with the words “delay, deny, defend” etched in the casing. The words mimic the way some attorneys describe how insurers allegedly deny services and payment and is the title of a 2010 book by Jay Feinman, a professor emeritus at Rutgers Law School that is highly critical of the industry.
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