UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in a ‘targeted attack,’ New York City police say – live updates
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Fear about attack on location near Times Squarepublished at 4:03 PM Greenwich Mean Time
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Phil McCausland
Reporting from New York City
There is a particular shock about this attack because of the location of the attack.
The Hilton Midtown hotel is just blocks from Times Square, Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art and other New York City tourist spots.
And the hotel acts as a home for that tourism. It regularly hosts numerous conferences, families coming on holiday and even school groups.
I know the hotel well. I stayed at the hotel with my Model United Nations group as a high school student on one of my first visits to New York, and have returned several times since.
All that to stay, it’s a place with a lot of foot traffic, with a lot of police, security and certainly a lot of witnesses. The fact that the shooter chose this location is quite daring and makes the death of Brian Thompson all the more poignant.