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Officials of the NYPD said the words were engraved in the shell casings and live rounds left behind in the scene.
Bullets lie on the sidewalk at the scene outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan where Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot, in New York. (IMAGE: AP PHOTO)
The masked shooter who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson left behind bullets and shell casings engraved with the words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend”, the New York Post and the Associated Press (AP) in a report citing the New York Police Department (NYPD).
This cryptic message found in the bullets on the scene is now the focus of the NYPD investigation.
Police are probing the meaning of the engraved words to determine the motive behind the targeted killing as investigations continue.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, died in a dawn ambush Wednesday as he walked to the company’s annual investor conference at a Hilton hotel in Midtown, blocks from tourist draws like Radio City Music Hall and the Museum of Modern Art.
The words on the ammunition may have been a reference to strategies insurance companies allegedly use to try to avoid paying claims.
Investigators recovered several 9 mm shell casings from outside the hotel and a cellphone from the alleyway through which the shooter fled, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny had said earlier.
The New York Post report said that the words are similar to a 2010 book critical of the insurance business industry, titled “Delay, Deny, Defend – Why insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it”
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New York, United States of America (USA)
