Detectives investigating the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson are working to determine if cryptic words — “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” — found on shell casings left at the scene were a message from the shooter, who remains at large.
New York Police Department detectives confirmed the shell casings, and the words on them, to ABC News and the New York Post, and about whether the words were left behind as a hint to his motive, which has not yet been determined.
Thompson, from Minnesota, was shot at point-blank range several times at about 6:46 a.m. ET on Wednesday outside the Hilton hotel on Sixth Avenue, where he was to speak at an investors’ conference, according to the NYPD.
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