{"id":825191,"date":"2025-02-07T12:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/brian-thompsons-death-recalls-2015-murders-of-reporter-cameraman-by-unitedhealthcare-worker\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:13:20","slug":"brian-thompsons-death-recalls-2015-murders-of-reporter-cameraman-by-unitedhealthcare-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/brian-thompsons-death-recalls-2015-murders-of-reporter-cameraman-by-unitedhealthcare-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Thompson\u2019s death recalls 2015 murders of reporter, cameraman by UnitedHealthcare worker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The cold-blooded killing of Brian Thompson was not the first time UnitedHealthcare has been at the center of a high-profile murder.<\/p>\n

A company employee infamously filmed himself executing a Virginia reporter and her cameraman live on air as they conducted an interview in August 2015.<\/p>\n

Vester Lee Flanagan II committed suicide <\/a>after gunning down reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward as they worked for CBS affiliate WDBJ-TV in Roanoke.<\/p>\n

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Vester Lee Flanagan II committed suicide after gunning down a reporter and photojournalist during a live TV broadcast in Roanoke on Aug. 26, 2015. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Video of the terrifying incident ran on the station\u2019s morning news program, capturing the sound of at least eight gunshots, then screams, and briefly showed Flanagan, 41, holding a gun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ward, 27, and Parker, 24, were declared dead at the scene. <\/p>\n

The woman they were interviewing, Vicki Gardner, survived with a bullet wound to her back.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Flanagan had been fired from the news outlet in 2013 for poor performance and disruptive behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He later took a position at a UnitedHealthcare call center in Roanoke, where he worked until November 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Reporter Alison Parker, 24, and photojournalist Adam Ward, 27, were declared dead at the scene. Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Video of the terrifying incident ran on CBS affiliate WDBJ-TV\u2019s morning news program. New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The grisly, on-air murders sent chills throughout the country. Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While there, Flanagan was accused of grabbing a female employee\u2019s shoulder and aggressively telling her to never talk to him again, according to reports at the time. It\u2019s unclear why he eventually quit the gig.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Flanagan, who posted a video of the murders<\/a> to his Twitter account, killed himself<\/a> during a car chase with police.<\/p>\n

Nearly six years later, Brian Thompson became CEO of UnitedHealthcare Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed on Dec. 4. Business Wire<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thompson, 50, was gunned down on Dec. 4 as he was approaching an investor event at the Hilton Midtown without any security detail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following a days-long manhunt, Luigi Mangione<\/a>, a 26-year-old computer engineer from a well-off Maryland family, was arrested in Altoona, Pa. on Monday, and charged with second-degree murder in Thompson\u2019s death.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Georgia Worrell
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The cold-blooded killing of Brian Thompson was not the first time UnitedHealthcare has been at the center of a high-profile murder. A company employee infamously filmed himself executing a Virginia reporter and her cameraman live on air as they conducted an interview in August 2015. Vester Lee Flanagan II committed suicide after gunning down reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":825192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707,25206],"tags":[9072,51123],"class_list":{"0":"post-825191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brian","8":"category-thompsons","9":"tag-brian","10":"tag-thompsons"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825191","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=825191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}