UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops

The CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare was gunned down Wednesday outside a luxury Midtown hotel in a “brazen, targeted attack” by a chillingly methodical killer who used a firearm with a silencer, police said.

Brian Thompson, 50, was repeatedly shot by a masked gunman who had been waiting outside the Hilton hotel along Sixth Avenue, where the CEO was hosting an investors’ conference, said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

“Many people passed the suspect, but he appeared to wait for his intended target,” she said.