losing track of a perp in fucking Manhattan
the other pic of the perp (with mask up) looks totally different, diff eyebrows, diff backpack, has coat hoodie up instead of sweater hoodie
dude was just casually outside of McDs in broad daylight while on the run (not innawoods? not moving in the evening?)
shooter is rich and his family owns a line of retirement homes
Brian Thompson is a new start, was never CEO of anything before 2021 (father was a grain elevator worker)
Brian Thompson is also excluded from the past Wikipedia pages of UnitedHealthCare, (apparently not important enough to mention?)
The only consistent CEO on said pages is Andrew Witty (still CEO now, and was CEO from 2021 along with Brian)
Andrew Witty also served as CEO of GlaxoSmithKline from 2008-2017, showing a decade of full experience
Witty was management trainee when he was 19yo, was appointed president of GSK europe in 2003 (at 39 yo), and advised Prime Minister David Cameron 2010-2015. A very experienced fellow!
UHC's profits were 17B in 2021 and 21B in 2022. Brian Thompson was getting a salary of only 10M per year from 2021-24. This seems like a pretty low profit:CEO wage ratio, but more analysis is necessary
there was some embezzlement thing where Brian defrauded 17M, Steven Hemsley (executive chariman) defrauded 102M, and Witty defrauded a few million. Brian was set to testify soon. Hemsley took home almost all of the money.
how did the shooter even know where to find Brian?

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[–] TerribleHands@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What throws me is that he managed to successfully get away, but then decided not to change clothes or ditch the evidence. The authorities clearly didn't know who he was, he should've been easily able to disappear back into society, but instead he decides to wander around in public dressed as the assassin. Maybe he wanted to get caught, but then why run in the first place? Alternatively, the feds have some secret tech for identifying people and the McDonalds snitch thing is just a cover?

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What throws me is that he managed to successfully get away, but then decided not to change clothes or ditch the evidence. The authorities clearly didn't know who he was, he should've been easily able to disappear back into society, but instead he decides to wander around in public dressed as the assassin. Maybe he wanted to get caught, but then why run in the first place?

I don't find this part to be much of a mystery at all. What is he going to do, go back to his 9 to 5 and live like nothing has happened, having murdered some asshole in cold blood, but that having changed literally nothing in the world? Like that's not something a normal person wants to do. Fairly high likelihood he just planned things out without much of a hope of it ever actually going as well as it did, and when it went better than he expected he just didn't have much more of a plan.

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't find this part to be much of a mystery at all. What is he going to do, go back to his 9 to 5 and live like nothing has happened, having murdered some asshole in cold blood, but that having changed literally nothing in the world?

You can't change the world, but you can make a scratch and seems like his went pretty deep. Why not go back to your old life, let the heat die down and then do it again.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Fairly high likelihood he just planned things out without much of a hope of it ever actually going as well as it did, and when it went better than he expected he just didn't have much more of a plan.

It does remind me of the Columbine shooting a bit, where all the killing happened in a 16 minute window, and they proceeded to wander around for the next 40 minutes before killing themselves.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Maybe he wanted to get caught, but then why run in the first place?

Really seems like the only explanation