I watched it and now I'm chilling
Rode off on a citibike too
There was a biking bank robber that was quite successful for a while, apparently riding a bike makes you pretty much invisible in a city.
saw some fucking nerd claiming he tracked the citibike, hope he's next
Based on how well executed this seems to be, I doubt the shooter used any traceable payments or anything, but time will tell.
Not only that but the shooting was at what like 6:45 am est? Dudes obviously not on the bike anymore and if they were confident enough with the metadata associated with the citibike they would have released his full name by now.
Lmao not sure if the same guy but that happened in my city. He was never caught.
The one I know of got caught eventually, but did 26 successful heists. https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2019/10/24/this-olympic-hopeful-used-his-bike-to-rob-26-banks/
shit you got more on that? I always wondered whether a bicycle would make a good getaway vehicle on accounts of cops are too carbrained to understand how it can move or how to even tell them apart.
An e bike that can hit 15-20 mph with in a few pedals is probably the best escape vehicle in a city.
No license plate, don't need to register it with the government, can buy used ones easily with cash.
Fun fact most ebikes have a governor on them that limits their top speed which can be bypassed by clipping a single wire.
https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2019/10/24/this-olympic-hopeful-used-his-bike-to-rob-26-banks/
eventually got caught though
What I'm learning here is if you don't do it on a bright orange custom frame with a 50 units / year production line you could basically do this forever
Indeed, with the rise of cheap and decent e-bikes, it seems pretty feasible with a bit of opsec and planning.
Pinarellos definitely aren't 50 units / year rare so I say DO conduct heists on a pinarello race bike so that after the cops cleared the first hurdle (understanding what a bicycle is) they're gonna look for dentists only
What the fuck is your function as insurance if you’re denying 1/3 of all claims you fucking pieces of shit.
the function of insurance is to take as much money as possible
I hope to celebrate more CEO assassinations with you all
Best news in a long time. Hopefully more of these parasite killers get offed
Hopefully more of these parasite killers get offed
the parasite killer is still alive tho?
Lol good point. Guess a better term for the ceos would be parasitic killers.
you're either clever/based or deeply unserious
I don't know if it was a hit, he had written Deny, Defend and Depose on the shellcasings https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-chest-midtown-manhattan-masked-gunman-large/story?id=116446382
Either a pro or the dude was a vet, like a vet who saw actual combat. He's def used a gun before, I don't think some disgruntled rando could walk off that calmly after shooting a guy three times.
If it's a hitman I'm dying to know what for. This story has the potential to be soooo juicy. Please please please blow the lid off some major racketing shit ceos are in on.
Here's hoping it's a rival CEO who shorted the stock before it jumped 一箭雙鵰
I think he was using a slide lock pistol, with a silencer that's the closest you can get to a quiet gun.
"If the law you followed to maximize shareholder value brought you to this point, then of what use was the law?"
Ah that makes sense; I was wondering why he had to rack the slide after every shot like a springer airsoft gun
So, I don't think its a 'slide lock' pistol, and here's why:
I'm pretty sure they don't exist.
Perhaps you or someone else is aware of modern, magazine fed pistols which intentionally fire to a slide lock state with each shot, but afaik, that only ever happens with a faulty, malfunctioning semi-automatic handgun.
Usually you have to intentionally draw the slide back and then engage a slide lock, for all but the final round in the magazine.
A handgun that is designed, intentionally, to slide lock on each shot, despite having a magazine, seems very silly to me.
It would functionally be a single action, non semi-auto weapon, akin to a single action revolver that requires you to pull the hammer back before each shot.
Only benefit I can think of is that you control when spent casings are ejected... but this guy doesn't grab his brass, so he's not making use of that.
Further, having the slide lock to an open position does not make the gunshot any quieter.
How could it?
The gasses and spent casing would eject from the ejection port as the slide moves to the locked back position.
???
Not sure where you got this idea.
What I think is happening actually happening is that he's using subsonic ammunition in a normal semi-auto handgun, with a threaded barrel and supressor.
Subsonic ammo exists for many common firearm calibers, it usually has a significantly lower grain (less gunpowder).
Benefit of this is that the gunshot is much quieter...
Downside is, depending on your weapon/ammo combination, this may not provide enough actual explosive force in the chamber to actually cycle a semi-auto action, so you have to work the action (in this case, the slide) yourself each time.
(That and your effective range, accuracy and velocity are reduced, but thats usually not a problem for point blank situations like this.)
After watching the extremely low quality video several times, I think this is actually what is occuring.
The slide does not appear to stay locked back after firing, for any of the shots.
For every shot, he has to fully cycle the slide, often multiple times, reaching down toward a pistol whose slide does not appear to be extended.
This behavior is quite commonplace when using subsonic rounds in a modern handgun.
From the size of the gun, it's so small that it might not even be 9mm.
It could be .38, maybe even .22?
https://www.capitolarmory.com/hush-puppy-project-slide-lock-pistols-19-45-9mm.html
Fair enough, I guess I should have qualified with 'commonly available, off the shelf, manufacturer standard, non custom built' handguns, but I felt the Autism/detail level was extremely high in my post already.
I felt the Autism/detail level was extremely high in my post already.
Follow your heart of course, but I can pretty confidently say that the user base of this site is here for pretty much any amount of autism/detail level on a thread about an event like this
(not sure if this is the right usage for this emoji but I'm trying to agree with you)
Good points, though I did see in another thread someone linked to a purchase of a slide-lock pistol, they do exist. I have no opinion on whether or not he used one, but they do seem to be a thing.
It's also possible it's some Shinzo Abe assassin style home-made boondoggle. The footage is pretty blurry, so it'd be hard to tell
I mean technically you're not wrong, its possible, but pretty unlikely.
Guns are not hard to get in America.
In Japan, they are extremely heavily regulated, extremely unavailable to civillians.
if it was homemade, it would be printed, and printed frames aren't significantly worse than factory ones. you're allowed to buy everything other than the frame off the shelf with no regulation at all. aside from how easy it is to get a gun legally, an improvised gun in america will be way better than an improvised gun in japan.
He racks the slide immediately after the first shot so it does appear he's running a manual action set up (either a manual action gun or just a standard semi auto and working the slide each time).
After the second shot he appears to have some trouble but he calmly fixes it and I can't tell if he shoots a third time or is satisfied the guy is allready dead.
Must have missed some because the news is reporting 9mm casings recovered at the scene
let's hope they can't get a print off of those, or that he's so pro that he dropped decoy casings
Decoy is best scenario (and brilliant), but it's NYC so they may just be covering ass and lying too. Which would be hilarious.
I doubt it. A professional wouldn't have been that off on the first shok. The slide rack was just indicative of someone who knows their weapon. I think this was a vengeance kill.
this goes to show that you shouldn't do adventurism unless you are a professional
Gun nerds are saying it's a single shot 45 and that it looks like he might have been collecting the casings when he cycled to the next shot.
Also some are commenting that the first shot was a disabling shot to the leg allowing for a closer range second kill shot.
But it’s way harder to hit a leg than a torso. Like, shooting someone in the torso would also disable them for a closer range second kill shot, so I’m assuming the shooter aimed for the torso and hit the leg, then got closer to increase accuracy
Yeah who knows maybe his a bad shot. But a torso shot first would really kick in adrenaline if it wasn't a drop dead shot and than the target would be fleeing making it hard. And if you have ever shot a pistol the last thing you want to do is shoot further than maybe 10 feet cuz the accuracy on them is impossible to dial in for your average person.
When you watch the video he hits the calf. The ceo instantly tried to flee and stumbles to the ground.
This is clearly not an average person this looks like a professional hit job
i don't believe it, i think a professional would have tested the gun and gotten it to operate reliably. it's pretty clean aside from that though.
you said you wont elaborate so i guess you're not obligated to respond. do you think he just intended to run it manual? if so, it doesn't look like he's cycling it very reliably, it looks like it takes a couple tries, and it looks like he pulls the trigger before noticing that it malfunctioned.
Looks like it was possibly a makeshift weapon a la
but more sophisticated. Either way he did the job and got away.The emoji?
Because it is literally made from like plywood and some sort of metal pipe.
no i mean, what makes you say it looks like a makeshift weapon?
Watch the video, he clearly fires one shot then has some trouble with it and loads a second round manually before firing again.
the first shot looked center mass to me. target doesn't favor either leg as he moves to the wall
are the cops just wrong about it being 9mm? i don't know why they would lie about that, it's really easy to tell by looking at the casings. witnesses said it was really quiet, which means it was subsonic ammo, and 45 is better than 9mm subsonic, but subsonic 9mm still does exist.
Yeah it's a 9mm. I posted this before they released info based off of gun nerd comments on tiktoks.
If this guy somehow becomes the catalyst for Medicare for All, I will officially change my stance on
Otherwise though, it's cool, let's chill and enjoy vibes, but remember that we should not start doing adventurisms. Violence must be attached to a political movement.
Ever read "Radicalized" by Cory Doctorow?
spoiler
That's exactly what happens in the story. Amazingly, it took a Canadian to point that very obvious notion out.
this goes to show that adventures are based because there are thousands of other people who got pork'd because they attended a protest, or just y'know, existed
Elaborate? I'm confused at what you're trying to say.
my point is that it's better to get suspended from school for attacking the bully than to get suspended for being the victim
Some depictions of hell make it icy-cold, as a consequence of being so distant from the light and warmth of god.
You can't just say this without linking the video.
https://youtu.be/sDH8CEspXfQ
Also looks like that pistol has a suppressor nice.
wow even the youtube comments arent mad this shithead got whacked
Death to America
I think it's gonna be near impossible to make actual people hate the guy though
I'm just glad the person's face can't be seen. Though I imagine there is a high chance that there are lots of CCTV cams that might have. Hope the person is able to ghost, and that overwhelming fear takes hold for other C Suite folks at UHC and really all companies.
I noticed the gun doesn't eject it's cartridge automatically. They manually cycle after every shot. I wonder if they were collecting the brass too.
EDIT: nevermind. Another video shows the gun cycling after being fired.
Likely subsonic rounds that have trouble cycling the action.
Edit: this is why if you happen to be stealthily doing adventurism you should use .45acp, it's subsonic by default and pairs well with a suppressor. In Minecraft.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
*brass swell* Excellent work 47. Now, make your way to the nearest citibike for extraction
https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/video-shows-gunman-executing-brian-thompson-at-close-range-as-unitedhealthcare-ceo-stumbles-away/
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Man, that looks like something out of Metal Gear Solid with the way he fires that gun.
Obvious CW for violence
spoiler
https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/video-shows-gunman-executing-brian-thompson-at-close-range-as-unitedhealthcare-ceo-stumbles-away/
One must appreciate the calmness, discipline, and presence of mind it takes to manage that in a crowded city with a witness right there, even with the gun jamming.
you can tell that that witness was a new yorker the way she just calmly bailed
go full IMAX
This is obviously a phrase cool people use that only entertains cool people of course
Morrowboomers continue to have bad takes. Interesting!
It's so funny you pretend you haven't ever been happy about the news of any person receiving violence ever. The funniest thing is you probably believe it, your programming is so strong you can't recall it in this very moment. Cognitive dissonance and the like.
Sorry I'm a cop and I heard an acorn drop so my posts go pop pop
Oh they were all up and down this thread talking about "Oh you Americans how you love your bloodshed you're all just fash/tankies/Trump voters blah blah blah" and when asked what country they come from they refused to say. Which is why I called them a coward
The CEO was into the mafia for 7 figures and they tried to blackmail him with his Sonic diaper porn fetish and that didn't work so they sent The Punisher.
Hard Disagree. Human lives have worth. This absolute lawlessness is heartwarming
aint no way lmaooo
