Nearly four days after the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, police still do not know the gunman’s name or whereabouts or have a motive for the killing.

Summary

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The gunman, who arrived in New York City on November 24th, shot Thompson on December 4th outside a hotel hosting an investor conference.

Investigators believe the gunman, who concealed his identity with a mask, fled the city on a bus, leaving behind a backpack in Central Park.

  • TehWorld@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I was driving through rural Tennessee today and I’m pretty sure I saw him at a gas station.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      So like, 1% of his annual salary?

      Not even that. He earned $10.2m/year. So $50k would be .49%. Don’t miss the decimal point there. $50k is slightly less than 1/2 of a percent of his annual salary.

      If he never took PTO and worked 5 days a week and 8 hours a day for the entire year (admittedly, CEOs can frequently need to work more than than 40 hours a week) he would be earning $4903/hour. So this $50k bounty offer represents slightly more than 10 hours of what they pay the CEO in salary.

        • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          And he was “just” a millionaire

          This term “millionaire” being synonyms with “rich” really needs to be updated for 2024 with all of the inflation by now. A household that saved $1m by the time they retire at age 65 would technically be “millionaires”. That would give the household $81k/year. $81k/year to spend for a household in retirement isn’t bad, of course, but I don’t think anyone would look at that household and think that the couple living there would be considered “rich”.

          now what about billionaires…

          Now that one is absolutely still “rich” by every measure.

            • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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              2 years ago

              Then you’re making more than that millionaire household (remember thats at least two people), and that’s after they’ve spent their entire life working and saving.

              You are more “rich” than those millionaires because you’re one person, and likely have decades more to earn increasingly higher salaries and save. For them, its over. That is the most amount of money they have for the rest of their lives. There’s no more income from salaries after retirement.

              • NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                2 years ago

                That’s crazy because while livable I wouldn’t call my financial situation super comfortable. Maybe if I wasn’t paying rent though

                • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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                  2 years ago

                  Housing costs don’t go away when you own a paid-off home. You still have to pay for property taxes and insurance in addition to the costs of upkeep on the home. This is part of the reason its so difficult to get ballot measures passed that rely on property taxes. Fixed income seniors aren’t getting any more money, and they are trying to make their money last for the remainder of their lives (with no idea when exactly they’ll die and it will be okay to be out of money).

                  They also get to watch their savings drop in value over time as inflation chips away at it.

                  All of this happens at a time of life when your medical costs are sky high from your body failing from age or treatment to continually treat chronic conditions.

                  Getting old isn’t for the faint of heart.

  • Zugyuk@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    So they went from .02% to .14% of his yearly take 🤣. They must not care very much about finding this guy

    • Manalith@midwest.social
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      2 years ago

      Another way to look at it is them trying to pit everyone against each other. “How much money will it take to get the 99% to turn on one of their own?”

      • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        lol my first instinct with police is that even IF you snitched and they caught the guy, they probably wouldn’t pay you and weasel out with some fine print.

        Or worse yet, it’ll be some shit like “Hm, how did you know it was him? What are you hiding citizen? Bend over for the cavity search!”

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    They might want to add a few zeroes to that number of they expect to actually get anywhere.

  • Omega@discuss.online
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    2 years ago

    I watched videos of the FBI and their technology, but apparently all it takes to avoid them is to leave your phone behind, cycle with monopoly money and wear common inconspicuous clothing that covers you up? The fuck happened

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      It turns out most if not all of the advanced policing technology that gets touted is, you know, lies. They just want you to believe you can’t get away with it. Just look at how many godawful propaganda CSI shows there are - how often do they rely on magic databases containing the location of every flower shop cross referenced by geolocation and joined to the magic database of endangered beetle habitat? That’s a real example btw, bones is a terrible show.

      Having worked with the police, the #1 way to get away with a crime is to just not tell anyone you did it. That’s it, that’s the whole secret.

      • beejboytyson@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        And what people don’t understand is that if police choose NOT to use said technology because the case isn’t “worth” the money or they just don’t care.

      • SpaceScotsman@startrek.website
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        2 years ago

        magic databases containing the location of every flower shop cross referenced by geolocation and joined to the magic database of endangered beetle habitat

        Open Street Map has entered the chat

      • sudo42@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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        2 years ago

        CSI:
        “Enhance image! Enhance image! Enhance image! Enhance image! Enhance image! There! Whaddya know? That image looks just like that guy we already have in holding for being homeless”.

  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 years ago

    you could use that $50k to pay for one night at the hospital that your insurance won’t cover!

    • Nasan@sopuli.xyz
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      2 years ago

      Or a few months of the medication that works for you but insurance will only cover the shittier alternatives.

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldBanned
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      2 years ago

      I found him! I found Jesus behind the couch. Oh you were looking for Pete? Don’t know man. Try taco bell. He might be getting a chalupa right now as we speak.

    • colmear@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 years ago

      It’s still information, tho.

      Is it? According to the Oxford dictionary, information are “facts or details about somebody/something”. Wouldn’t that make false information technically not information?

      • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        False facts are still facts. A fact is anything that can be proven true or false. The opposite of a fact is an opinion.

        Edit: I just learned a “fact” has to be believed by the person saying it.

        • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Edit: I just learned a “fact” has to be believed by the person saying it.

          Now I’m not sure if I should trust you on that or not…

  • Captain Howdy@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    There was no “gunman”, Thompson was killed by his own greed. You should arrest him, but you can’t because he’s dead.

    Money please!

    • shottymcb@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      It’d be a little macabre, but I feel like it’s pretty easy to handcuff a corpse…

  • excral@feddit.org
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    2 years ago

    Can someone give context, is this the same reward that’s given for the other about 800 murders that happen each year in New York or is that guy getting special rich guy privileges beyond his death?

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      I didn’t squeal, and I can prove it. I haven’t even been in contact with the FBI! Now pay up.

      Besides the obvious issue above, I’m also pretty sure that it would be obstruction of justice.