UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s suspected killer arrived in NYC last month on bus that left from Atlanta: sources
The suspected killer who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson came to New York City on an interstate Greyhound bus last month, police sources told The Post.
The suspect arrived at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan back on Nov. 24 after the vehicle set off from Atlanta, Georgia, according to the sources.
It wasn’t immediately clear, though, where the cold-blooded gunman jumped on.
After reaching the Big Apple, he checked into the HI New York City Hostel on the Upper West Side before going to stake out the Hilton Hotel in Midtown, where he ended up killing Thompson early Wednesday.
He appeared to have checked out of the youth hostel for one night before returning in an Uber a day later — on Nov. 30 — to rebook a room with a fake New Jersey ID, per sources.
Meanwhile, cops released chilling surveillance images earlier Thursday that showed the killer’s unmasked face for the first time as he flashed a smile in the lobby of the hostel.
Sources say the gunman only pulled down his mask because he was “flirting” with the receptionist — and she asked to see his face.
What 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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Cops and FBI agents subsequently scoured the hostel, but a search of his room — which he shared with two others — had yielded nothing of note as of Thursday afternoon, according to sources.
The developments come as cops slowly piece together the gunman’s whereabouts in the days leading up to the shooting.
As the manhunt for the gunman continued, sources said cops had since recovered the burner phone he ditched as he fled the crime scene and disappeared into Central Park just minutes after killing the executive.
The suspect was seen making a call on the phone as he made his way to the hotel on Sixth Avenue, police said.
Officials have also found one of the water bottles that he purchased at a Starbucks at West 56th Street and Sixth Avenue — just a few minutes from the hotel.
Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts
