Authorities have identified the man suspected of killing UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson and are closing in on him, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was quoted as saying on Saturday by the New York Post.

Adams was quoted by the Post as saying the police were withholding the suspect's name for now to deny him any advantage. “We don’t want to release that now,” the mayor said. “If you do, you are basically giving a tip to the person we are seeking and we do not want to give him an upper hand at all. Let him continue to believe he can hide behind the mask."

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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    5 days ago

    A backpack resembling the one worn by the suspect has been recovered near a playground in Central Park, according to media reports. MSNBC said on Saturday that police examining the bag and its contents found a jacket and Monopoly money, but no firearm.

    Stuffing your crime bag with monopoly money to fuck with the cops. hahaha

  • rhubarb [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    They are not releasing his name because that would tell him they know his name, but they are telling the press that they know his name thonk

  • dannoffs [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    "We have video of him entering the Port Authority Bus Terminal. We don't have any video of him exiting so we believe he may have gotten on a bus,"

    Wow, I wasn't aware they had Sherlock Holmes on the case lmao.

    • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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      4 days ago

      There's probably video of the interiors of all the buses and the station but it will take a fair bit of time to go through it all.

      • ped_xing [he/him]
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        4 days ago

        You have to assume a significant failure rate for any equipment on a bus and then increase that a lot for equipment not vital to the functioning of the bus. Hope he chose a struggling operator.

        • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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          4 days ago

          I would laugh my ass off if they had an actual trail on him and lost it because a bus operator was too distressed over fighting their insurance over prescription drugs to upkeep the bus cam.

        • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
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          4 days ago

          Good point as a general rule of thumb nothing works on a bus ever, and the longer the bus trip is the more shit doesnt work

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    5 days ago

    Eric Adams saying "the net is tightening" when they have a picture and possibly know that he left NYC on a bus lol

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      5 days ago

      A picture that is not even confirmed to be the same dude beyond wearing a hoodie that might be the same one but the lighting makes it difficult to tell

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        5 days ago

        I'm leaning towards that picture being a different dude as well. Someone innocent is gonna go down for this. Hopefully no one will believe it and we can get some 2020 back.

  • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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    4 days ago

    Forgive me for being True Crime brained here a moment (I'm a lmayo it's in my blood I'm sorry) but the cops did something really similar during a widely publicized murder in Delphi, IN, where they held these press conferences assuring the killer they knew his name and identity but never reveaed it

    And then it took another couple years and the testimony of another unrelated suspect to even find the guy, so clearly they were blowing smoke to see if the guy would slip up or turn himself in (he did neither)

  • jackmarxist [any]
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    5 days ago

    They're going to kill some random guy and call him the Adjuster.

  • Ivysaur [she/her]
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    5 days ago

    Yeah this is a lie lol. Also nice jab at "hiding behind the mask", a thing apparently all criminals do now since NYC wanted to ban those recently. Very cool to witness the reality invention in real time

  • quarrk [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    My girlfriend goes to another school, you wouldn’t know her. Here’s a picture but she’s wearing a mask, no I don’t have a better one because she doesn’t like taking pictures

    • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
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      4 days ago

      no I don’t have a better one because she doesn’t like taking pictures

      She's just like me fr fr

  • quarrk [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    Their claims don’t add up. They supposedly know he went to a bus terminal, but they can only assume that he took an interstate bus because they didn’t see him exit the terminal. So they don’t know which bus and they can’t even be completely sure that he did go on one at all.

    This info is cool but they can’t tell you his name. That would tip him off too much.

    • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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      5 days ago

      also the released pictures are wildly off .. when he simles he has a black backpack , and the on Jacket has front pockets in the other it doesnt...

    • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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      4 days ago

      enters bus terminal wearing clothing meant to disguise identity

      Removes or changes configuration of clothing to further obscure identity and features

      Like how does anyone know he didn't have a Hollywood level body suit and mask hidden in the bathroom ceiling tile? So fun to just assume so much stuff so i might as well, too. The guy actually just crawled into a hole and is waiting a week like the guy from that one bank robbery movie

  • godlessworm [comrade/them]
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    4 days ago

    THAT'S RIGHT GUY, WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE, WE'RE CLOSING IN. SO YOU MAY AS WELL TURN YOURSELF IN!!!

    this is such obvious bullshit. "we're gonna come out and say we know who he is, but we wont say his name because then he's gonna know we know who he is". yeah, i believe that. my supermodel girlfriend from another school made the same point.

  • peeonyou [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    as they bump up the reward for information to $50,000

    hmmmm

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    5 days ago

    Wouldn't saying you know the name have the same effect on the perp as just dropping the name? If you want the dude to get cocky you just wouldn't release any information. If I thought I might get caught this would make me take the same cautionary actions as if my name were released. In conclusion, this is bullshit and they've got nothing.

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    I still think they're just gonna kill some random person and say it was the shooter to save face for the whole thing.