Police expand search to find UnitedHealthcare CEO's killer; NYPD, FBI announce cash reward for info

Law enforcement agencies have announced a total bounty of $60,000 for any information related to the suspect involved in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Thompson was fatally shot in broad daylight in New York earlier this week and the man suspected to have murdered him is still at large.

The New York Police Department had initially offered a cash reward of $10,000 for information leading to the suspect’s arrest and conviction. On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced to offer up to $50,000 for the man.

“The FBI is assisting the New York City Police Department in the shooting death of a 50-year-old male victim on the morning of December 4, 2024, at approximately 6:40 am outside of 1335 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan,” the FBI said in a wanted poster.

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Thompson was the executive of UnitedHealth’s insurance unit and was fatally shot outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel in the early hours of Wednesday, in what the police think was a preemptive attack.

Police have released multiple photos of the suspect - who fled the scene, climbed on an electric bicycle and disappeared into Central Park - and have asked the public for help in tracking him down.

Police widen search

New York City police believe the man who fatally shot a UnitedHealth top executive has left the city, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Friday, as the hunt for the gunman passed the crucial 48-hour mark.

Investigators on Friday recovered from Central Park a backpack they believe to be the suspect’s, CNN reported, citing unnamed police sources. The discarded backpack, potentially loaded with evidence, was missed on a first pass but found on a subsequent, expanded search through the 843-acre (341-hectare) park, CNN said.

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New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, in the same interview, said the video shows the suspect climbing into a taxi that took him to a Port Authority bus station near the George Washington Bridge in Upper Manhattan.

With inputs from Reuters