{"id":823387,"date":"2025-01-31T12:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/us-ceo-shooting-suspect-identified-net-tightening-new-york-mayor-says\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:12:28","slug":"us-ceo-shooting-suspect-identified-net-tightening-new-york-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/us-ceo-shooting-suspect-identified-net-tightening-new-york-mayor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US CEO shooting suspect identified, \u2018net tightening\u2019, New York mayor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-qa=\"GenericArticle-Content\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">New York\u2019s mayor said on Saturday that \u201cthe net is tightening\u201d on the man suspected of gunning down a top health insurance executive before fleeing the city.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Mayor Eric Adams also said detectives knew the name of the fresh-faced suspect, an image of whom was released by investigators on Thursday and who has now been on the run for almost four days.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Adams praised \u201cthe manner in which [investigators] were able to follow his footsteps to recover evidence \u2013 some of it is known, some of it is unknown \u2013 but the net is tightening and we\u2019re going to bring this person to justice\u201d, he said, according to a report in the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The masked assailant was caught on camera entering a bus station in a northern neighbourhood of Manhattan in the wake of Wednesday\u2019s slaying, but he could not be identified exiting the facility on foot, a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">\u201cThey believe he\u2019s not in New York City,\u201d the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The image of the smiling suspect was obtained from a youth hostel where the gunman apparently stayed before the hit, detectives said, with media reporting he lowered his mask to flirt with a receptionist.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<figure data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A firearm was recovered at the scene of the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday. Photo: NYPD via AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2024\/12\/08\/bc7f292f-e1c4-4198-9f83-b607e27a0972_2abfa428.jpg\" title=\"A firearm was recovered at the scene of the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday. Photo: NYPD via AFP\"><\/p><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\">A firearm was recovered at the scene of the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday. Photo: NYPD via AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> Maribel Grumbles <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3289840\/us-ceo-shooting-suspect-identified-net-tightening-new-york-mayor-says?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York\u2019s mayor said on Saturday that \u201cthe net is tightening\u201d on the man suspected of gunning down a top health insurance executive before fleeing the city. Mayor Eric Adams also said detectives knew the name of the fresh-faced suspect, an image of whom was released by investigators on Thursday and who has now been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2335,295],"tags":[7256,6339],"class_list":{"0":"post-823387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-shooting","8":"category-suspect","9":"tag-shooting","10":"tag-suspect"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}