Central Park Pond Search for UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassination Suspect
The gun used to shoot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has not been recovered by authorities; a jacket and Monopoly money were discovered in a backpack believed to belong to his killer.
On Saturday, the New York Police Department dive team searched a Central Park pond for additional leads in the investigation of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Police tape cordoned off an area near Bethesda Fountain in a lake known as the Lake, where divers were seen behind the tape.
The spot where a backpack believed to belong to the shooter was found Friday, near the bandshell and about 20 feet from one of the park's crowded walkways, still has crime scene tape surrounding it.
MSNBC reported that a jacket and Monopoly money were found inside the backpack, but the police have not yet recovered the weapon used in the shooting.
The assailant who attacked outside the Hilton Midtown at 6:46 a.m. Wednesday arrived in New York City on a bus from Atlanta on Nov. 24 and stayed at an AYH Hostel on the Upper West Side.
On the day of the shooting, investigators were aware that the assassin escaped through Central Park and reached the location four minutes after shooting Thompson. According to a detailed timeline provided by Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny at a press conference on Friday, the assassin exited the park at 77th Street on the Upper West Side at 6:56 a.m.
At 7:04 a.m., he was seen on foot and then getting into a taxi cab.
Footage showed the cab dropping him off at Port Authority bus station, but detectives could not find footage of him leaving again. The station serves routes that could have taken him to New Jersey, north toward Boston or south toward Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
The NYPD has been searching Central Park since Wednesday.
"Central Park is large and packed, according to former NYPD Inspector Paul Mauro. He wondered if dogs were used to locate the backpack."
The NYPD initially offered $10,000 for information leading to the suspect's arrest and conviction, while the FBI later announced it was offering up to $50,000 for the same.
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