‘Net tightening’ on insurance exec killer, claims NY mayor

Ag AFP

NEW YORK: New York´s mayor said on Sunday “the net is tightening” on the man suspected of gunning down a top health insurance executive outside a Manhattan hotel before fleeing the city, as new evidence emerged in the brazen killing.

Mayor Eric Adams also said detectives know the name of the suspect who has been on the run since shooting UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson at close range early Wednesday in a killing that has seized national attention.

Adams praised the manner in which investigators “were able to follow his footsteps to recover evidence -- some of it is known, some of it is unknown -- but the net is tightening and we´re going to bring this person to justice,” he said, the New York Post reported.

The masked assailant was caught on camera entering a bus station in northern Manhattan following Wednesday´s murder, but he could not be identified exiting the facility on foot, a police spokesman confirmed to AFP.

An image released Thursday of the smiling suspect was obtained from a youth hostel where the gunman apparently stayed before the hit, with media reporting he had lowered his mask to flirt with a receptionist.