Who Killed Brian Thompson?
Making this thread to discuss who we think killed him. Do we think it was someone who had beef with United or Thompson himself or a hitman?
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I think it was Isaiah_53_5 💎🙌💎🙌💎
Nah bro, I have an alibi at your Mom's place. Her Ring shows me entering. Good times.
Isaiah made a funny!
Hahahaha
Sam Hyde. He planned this YEARS ago.
The prodigal stunna himself
what is the first thing from?
Million Dollar Extreme, but it's not actually about him lol
https://www.youtube Dot com/watch?v=UsGcg1icSyA&ab_channel=MillionDollarExtreme2
My hot take is the wife is involved. Imagine doing this many interviews less than 24hrs after your spouse was killed in cold blood, far from home.
The whole Robin Hood, insurance-bad angle is red herring. 95% of murders are committed by/on behalf of someone the victim knows.
Was thinking the exact same thing when I saw she was already giving statements to NBC within hours of his death about some vague "threats." He told her people were saying they would kill him and neither of them did anything about it?
It is extremely common to get death threats in insurance when denial of any benefits occur
I think there are several options (some realistic, others not) and I have no idea which it is:
1. Disgruntled Investor/Corporate sabotage - He was there for the investor conference and somebody either within his company or at a competitor had it out for him for some policy/update he was going to announce at the conference. I like to think that Someone over at CIGNA called the hit in.
2. Robinhood - this is already most peoples gut reaction, I think it's wrong, but who knows.
3. Government killing - someone is covering there tracks, sending a message, etc. inside the FBI/CIA, again potentially for something they didn't want him to announce/do at the conference.
4. I like the hot take from throway593 - the wife doing interviews saying there were death threats is interesting, though given what seems to be the thorough, public, and professional nature of the killing, I tend to think that this likely isn't the case.
5. Mafia/underworld ties - unlikely, but it's possible he had some connection to organized crime and they resolved a disagreement (less likely I know, but this whole thing is insane)
#1 is very hard to believe (disgruntled investor). UHG is arguably the best stock in healthcare for the past 15 years. Massive returns since 2009 and far more reliable than other health insurance stocks.
Lol at the Cigna take. Know a handful of people at both of these companies, Cigna are way nicer / fratty to an extent. Far more laidback from what I saw vs. UHG people.
Maybe Brian was going away from the "DDD" mantra and it was going to tank the stock. Maybe he's the good guy here. Maybe the #2 didn't want to wait for a shot at the top.
My only interaction with Cigna is as a patient (not amazing, but not the worst), and on their investment side, which was... meh. That said, corporate sabotage hit is my sleeper candidate for motive.
6. He was the one that got the hitman to kill him so his family would still get the life insurance. Wife may or may not be involved with this one.
Bulworth is that you?
Not sure how you can list all these and not list a family member of a client who died due to lack of insurance support.
I lumped that in with "Robinhood", though I can see how it doesn't exactly correlate. It's already so widely discussed that I didn't spend much time on it.
That’s the obvious one that doesn’t need mentioning again…
That’s the obvious one that doesn’t need mentioning again…
The casings at the scene were inscribed with deny (patient coverage), defend (against the lawsuit), depose (the patient). So... if that's true then this is definitely based on UHCs atrocious denial rates.
Or someone wanting to throw investigators off the trail with an obvious motive the public clearly has approved of (plz don't kill me Mrs. Thompson btw)
Yeah, my friends think it's too obvious and smells like a Fed. It's certainly a fascinating, if macabre, set of events.
Apparently the words, deny, defend and depose were written on the ammunition. From what I have read, that might mean deny claims, defend law suits and depose witnesses.
It definitely means that, the problem is that anybody who purposely killed the CEO of one of the most hated companies out there is going to know that. Could it be a disgruntled paitent? Yeah, but it could be anybody else who was in the industry enough to know that mantra.
Person who was probably screwed over by UHC. Also likely of a left wing persuasion. Not trying to say it's the libs fault.
If you see the lefty journalists on Twitter highlighting other HC CEOs and cheering about it, kinda does seem like the libs' fault.
Hearing rumours it was giveadvicepls
Can confirm sources are saying giveadvicepls.
Having watched the video, I don't think it was a pro. The shooter used a gun with a suppressor, but had to chamber a new round for every shot.
That leads me to believe that he used subsonic ammunition, but either didn't know - or couldn't access the right parts to the gun to make it operate in a normal semi-automatic way. With subsonic ammo you need a less stiff recoil spring, otherwise the gun won't chamber a round correctly / jam. This is fairly common knowledge for people that use guns regularly, and they sell standard kits (different springs) for various loads.
Of course, it could be that the hitman used some kind of DIY single-shot handgun, but I'm more leaning toward the above.
Other than that, the shooter did look cool and collected from the vid. Granted you only saw them from the back, but he shot Thompson 3-4 times, and then just walked away casually. Didn't run or look panicked. From what I've read, he had loitered around the area for some time.
But exactly who - that's hard to say. Disgruntled customer? Family / friends of someone that got screwed over by UH? Financial motives?
The simplest answer would be that it is someone that got screwed over (themselves, or family), and lost it. But it sure seemed planned.
To be fair, if you're planning something like this, you probably don't want to go to the range and dial in all the pieces of the gun together in public, so he/they may have just guessed on what the right spring strength was and guessed wrong. Clearing a jam that quickly while in the middle of shooting someone in broad daylight in Midtown implies both a significant knowledge of firearms, and significant coolness under pressure like that. If not a professional, it was someone pretty darn close. Retired/active duty military with a beef about denied coverage could be another option.
I saw some commentary elsewhere from a "gun expert" that he was using a bolt-action pistol, likely a B&T Station Six (https://bt-usa.com/product-category/station-six/). So I guess it's possible that the gun was functioning properly, but just had to be chambered manually.
I think 'professionals' dont really exist, at least not in the way people think and the movies show. A professional gun would either work for the Govt/Security agency, make money working advance security detail (Think Exxon in Africa),etc. Anyone that someone would pay to kill is going to typically be an unsophisticated lowlife that is desperate for money - e.g., part of organized crime and not be 'for sale' (mob, gangsters, cartel, etc.)
Hired 'hitmen' especially for a VIP target that most of us think requires someone:
- extremely sophisticated and experienced to be able to kill someone with little trace, AND
- Willing to engage in a very risky, to them, action AND
- Doing so for a substantial amount of money that makes sense to offset that risk. In the case of a CEO that has to be a 6-figure contract if not more.
It just doesnt make sense. If someone is really that good at this then they wont need the money and can find other ways to get paid for their services that arent as unsavory. If someone IS willing to kill a stranger for money then they likely are in need of money bad and that probably reflects poorly on their skill level.
It's like that old MBA 'Product Triangle'. You cant have it all, so simply put these high end hitmen 'professionals' dont exist. As for this guy he clearly covered his tracks very well and knows how to use a weapon in a very high pressure situation. He HAS to have some experience here and maybe even knows how the inside of the system works (military, former cop, etc.)
May be Brian was against gender quotas and wanted meritocracy. The fascist liberals got him. RIP soldier
"fascist liberals"
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