UnitedHealthcare investor day attendees in shock after killing of ‘stand up’ CEO Brian Thompson: ‘I’ve never met anyone who had anything bad to say about him’
The CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson was gunned down early Wednesday morning.
The CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson was gunned down early Wednesday morning in an act of violence that has shocked the business world.
Thompson, 50, was shot outside of the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Afterwards, he was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities told Fortune. The assailant has not been caught.
The former executive was killed right before UnitedHealthcare’s scheduled investor’s day. Many people were already assembled, and news of his death spread quickly among attendees.
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One investor who was there described the scene. He said that people were sitting in chairs with their laptops open when news of the shooting began to spread. Around 10 minutes after headlines first began to appear, Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Group, announced that there was a health emergency and the event was cancelled. The investor said that people started to get emotional, and some people began to cry. They then began to to leave the room.
The investor, who said he had previously dined with Thompson, said that he was “a stand up guy, a good dude. I’ve never met anyone who had anything bad to say about him.”
