NYC police travel to Georgia in search for CEO’s killer

Police investigating the deadly taking pictures of a healthcare govt in New York City are on the bottom in Georgia as they hunt for his fugitive killer.

Brian Thompson of UnitedHealthcare was shot a number of occasions final week in Midtown by a gunman who fled after which apparently boarded a bus out of the town.

Law enforcement sources informed the BBC’s US accomplice, CBS News, that officers have been despatched to the southern state and to stops alongside the bus route.

The search has entered its fifth day on Monday, although police have revealed neither a reputation nor a motive for the suspect, who was pictured a number of occasions on CCTV sporting a masks.

Much of the police exercise has been centered on New York’s Central Park which appears to have fashioned a part of the gunman’s escape route.

The lake was trawled for a second day on Sunday and a discarded backpack discovered close by contained a jacket and a few banknotes from the board recreation Monopoly however no gun, sources informed CBS.

Police consider he entered the park on a motorbike moments after the taking pictures, then caught a taxi after leaving the park on the Upper West Side.

Images launched over the weekend present the suspect masked at the back of the taxi heading uptown to Port Authority bus terminal close to Washington Heights.

He has not been noticed on any cameras leaving the station so the presumption is that he made his escape by bus.

It is similar approach he arrived within the metropolis, 10 days earlier than the taking pictures, on a Greyhound bus that originated in Atlanta.

He then checked right into a hostel the place he momentarily revealed his face to the receptionist, giving police their clearest picture but.

Police haven’t stated something about why they suppose he killed the 50-year-old, father-of-two Brian Thompson.

One idea is that it was an assault on the healthcare insurance coverage system.

Bullet casings discovered on the scene had the phrases “depose,” “deny” and “delay” written on them.

This echoes the title of a ebook criticising the methods insurers keep away from paying claims.

Thompson’s demise has prompted an outpouring on social media of individuals sharing their tales about being denied healthcare by insurance coverage companies.