NYC police travel to Georgia in search of CEO’s killer

Police investigating the fatal shooting of a health care executive in New York City are on the ground in Georgia and searching for her fugitive killer.

UnitedHealthcare’s Brian Thompson was shot multiple times in Midtown last week by a gunman who fled and then apparently boarded a bus out of town.

Law enforcement sources told the BBC’s US affiliate CBS News that officers have been dispatched to the southern state and to stop bus routes.

The search entered its fifth day on Monday, although police have neither revealed the name nor the motive of the suspect, who was seen several times on CCTV wearing a mask.

Much of the police activity has focused on New York’s Central Park, which appears to be part of the gunman’s escape route.

The lake was netted for a second day Sunday, and a discarded backpack found nearby contained a jacket and some banknotes from the board game Monopoly, but no gun, sources told CBS.

Police believe he entered the park on a bike moments after the shooting, then caught a taxi after leaving the park on the Upper West Side.

Images released over the weekend show a masked suspect in the back of a taxi headed toward the Port Authority Bus Terminal near Washington Heights.

He was not seen on any camera leaving the station, so it is assumed that he ran away from the bus.

This is similar to how he arrived in the city 10 days before the shooting, on a Greyhound bus originating from Atlanta.

He then went to a hostel where he momentarily showed his face to the receptionist, giving police the clearest image they had ever seen.

Police have not said why they think she killed Brian Thompson, a 50-year-old father of two.

One theory is that it was an attack on the health insurance system.

Bullet casings found at the scene had the words “humiliate,” “deny” and “delay” written on them.

This matches the title of the book which criticized the ways insurers avoid paying claims.

Thompson’s death has sparked a flood of people on social media sharing their stories about being denied health care by insurance companies.