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No indication suspect in CEO killing was UnitedHealthcare client, police say

Two people in blue NYPD jackets beyond yellow crime tape, with one kneeling and moving a yellow and black number.
Members of the NYPD near where Brian Thompson was shot and killed in New York City, on 4 December. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

There is no indication the man charged with killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, was ever a client of the medical insurer and may have targeted it because of its size and influence, a senior police official said on Thursday.

Joseph Kenny, chief of detectives for the New York police department, told NBC New York in an interview on Thursday that investigators had uncovered evidence that Luigi Mangione had prior knowledge UnitedHealthcare was holding its annual investor conference in New York City.

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