NYPD divers scoured a Central Park boathouse pond Sunday for potential clues, including the gun used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, as police still hunt for the gunman. The search continued.
Investigators believe the suspect may have thrown the evidence into a lake in the middle of the large park, officials said. Officials said the murder weapon has not yet been recovered.
Video footage shows two divers entering the water for the second day in a row at the popular landmark on Sunday, five days after Thompson was shot and killed in a shocking video outside a luxury hotel in Manhattan. It was shown that they were preparing.
Police released a photo of the alleged killer in a taxi in the Big Apple, and in a park they recovered what investigators believe to be his backpack, which contained a jacket and a fake Monopoly bag. There was money in it.
New surveillance images seen by the Post on Sunday show the gunman was shot at 2372 Amsterdam Avenue between West 177th and West 178th Streets, next to the MTA bus stop known as the “East Village M101” bus route. It is suggested that he got out of the taxi. It disappears again. The location is near the George Washington Bridge bus terminal.
“Detectives are reviewing all of our videos on Friday,” the manager of an apartment building at the Amsterdam Avenue scene said Sunday. “They had no luck. They had never seen him.”
He added that the footage does not show the suspect leaving the area on foot.
Thompson, 50, was shot to death with a type of veterinary weapon Wednesday outside the Hilton Midtown in New York as he was on his way to a business meeting, authorities said.
Police said the shell casings had strange graffiti on them, including the words “resign,” “delay,” and “refuse,” which appeared to be taken from the 2010 book “Delay, Refuse, Defend,” which criticized the medical industry.
After the shooting, the suspect jumped on his bicycle and walked down Sixth Avenue to Central Park, where he took a taxi, according to surveillance footage.
Mayor Eric Adams told reporters on Saturday that the “net is getting tighter” against the killer, but police have not tracked down a suspect as the investigation enters its fifth day.
