Who Was Brian Thompson, Slain Ceo Of Unitedhealthcare?

The 50-year-old had climbed up the ranks of the health insurance giant over 20 years and lived in Minnesota

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For 20 years Brian Thompson, the healthcare executive killed in a Manhattan shooting on Wednesday, climbed to the top of UnitedHealthcare.

The 50-year-old chief executive of the main division of the conglomerate UnitedHealth Group, the US’s largest health insurer, was gunned down in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning by a masked assailant in what police are calling a “brazen targeted attack.”