{"id":7021,"date":"2024-12-04T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2024-12-04T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:21:29","slug":"who-really-just-took-out-the-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=7021","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><i>Who really just took out the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson&#8230;and WHY?!<\/i><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7022\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-04-at-12.19.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-04-at-12.19.01-PM.png 581w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-04-at-12.19.01-PM-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The CEO of UnitedHealth\u2019s insurance division was gunned down Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown in what police say was a targeted attack.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Thompson, 50, was at the hotel around 6:46 a.m., arriving early for a conference, when a masked man allegedly waiting for\u00a0the CEO\u00a0repeatedly shot at him along Sixth Avenue before\u00a0dashing off on a bicycle, police sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson was hit in the chest, prompting a desperate attempt by first responders to save him with CPR,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/04\/us-news\/medics-attempted-cpr-on-slain-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-video\/\">harrowing video shows<\/a><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/04\/us-news\/ceo-of-unitedhealthcare-fatally-shot-outside-of-hilton-hotel-in-nyc-in-possible-targeted-attack-sources\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/04\/us-news\/ceo-of-unitedhealthcare-fatally-shot-outside-of-hilton-hotel-in-nyc-in-possible-targeted-attack-sources\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}