Wife of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson says her husband had been receiving ‘some threats’ prior to fatal shooting
The wife of slain health insurance CEO Brian Thompson claimed Wednesday that her husband had been getting threats before he was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan.
“There had been some threats,” Paulette Thompson told NBC News in her first comments since her husband was murdered early Wednesday.
“Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage?” she said, referring to her 50-year-old husband’s role as CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s insurance division.
“I don’t know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him,” she told NBC News by phone.
“I can’t really give a thoughtful response right now. I just found this out and I’m trying to console my children,” she said, confirming that police had told her it is believed to have been a “targeted attack.”
Brian Thompson, 50, was shot in the chest early Wednesday morning by a masked man who was waiting for him outside the Hilton hotel as he headed to a conference. He was rushed in critical condition to the Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, police said.
No arrests have been made. Crime Stoppers are offering a $10,000 reward for information.
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