The NYPD is trying to track a Citi Bike used by the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer

On Wednesday morning, personification changeable and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson extracurricular the Hilton edifice successful midtown Manhattan earlier stepping distant and past getting connected a Citi Bike that they rode to Central Park, said NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenney during a property conference. Thompson was scheduled to look astatine the company’s investor gathering today, which was canceled aft the shooting.

Now Lyft, which owns the bikeshare service, says it’s prepared to thief investigators if the shooter near a integer way while renting aliases utilizing 1 of its bikes. Lyft spokesperson Eric Smith said successful an email to The Verge that the institution is “ready to assistance rule enforcement.” However, arsenic of the clip the institution responded to our inquiry, investigators hadn’t yet made contact.

“As acold arsenic wherever he sewage the Citi Bike, we’re still moving that through,” Kenney told reporters, adding that the section was gathering video from “numerous sources” but that it doesn’t “have video aliases witnesser confirmation connected really he obtained that bike.”

Kenney said it looked for illustration the slayer “specifically targeted” Thompson and that “at this point, we do not cognize why.” The CEO’s wife, Paulette Thompson, told NBC News that “there had been immoderate threats.”

Earlier this year, UnitedHealthcare suffered a monolithic ransomware attack, which leaked info connected over 100 cardinal people and snarled healthcare for weeks contempt a $22 cardinal payment to the attackers.

Police officials were spotted asking astir for video footage of a Citi Bike stalls connected Madison Avenue and 82nd Street successful Manhattan early Wednesday afternoon, reports The New York Times. NYPD shared images of the shooter, including 1 of them connected the bike, and asked that anyone pinch “information arsenic to the personality aliases location of this individual” interaction constabulary astatine 1-800-577-TIPS.