NYPD SCUBA Workforce search the lake in Central Park
Investigators seek for proof, presumably associated to the capturing demise of United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, in New York Metropolis’s Central Park. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox New Digital)
Scuba divers with the New York Police Division had been seen scouring a lake inside Central Park because the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson continues.
Divers had been trying to find proof contained in the lake all through Sunday morning. The lake is close to the place officers discovered a backpack linked to the suspect. Photographs and video present divers signaling to 1 one other because the search continues.
Police had not introduced the restoration of any proof from the lake as of late Sunday morning.
Police say the suspect fled the scene of the capturing final week and biked to Central Park earlier than taking a taxi to the Port Authority bus station. His arrival on the bus station has led police to conclude he’s now not in New York Metropolis.
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Police recovered a backpack linked to the suspect contained in the park. It contained Monopoly cash and a jacket.
Retired FBI agent Scott Duffey instructed Fox Information Digital that the backpack will likely be taken to a lab in Queens for forensic testing, the place it can endure hint proof processing.
“[It’s] a course of for hair, fibers [and] DNA,” Duffey defined Saturday. “If he holds his hand in opposition to the strap and tightens the buckle like most of us do, that’s the place DNA almost definitely may be discovered. And zippers.”
Two members of the NYPD SCUBA staff within the lake in Central Park. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox Information Digital)
The NYPD first introduced that $10,000 was being provided for data resulting in the suspect’s arrest and conviction. The FBI mentioned late Friday it was providing as much as $50,000 for data resulting in the arrest and conviction of the suspect.
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The manhunt has now unfold into a number of states and entered its fifth day on Sunday. The New York Metropolis bus station the suspect used serves routes that would have taken him to New Jersey, north towards Boston or south towards Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Members of the NYPD SCUBA staff looking out the lake in Central Park on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox Information Digital)
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Former Washington, D.C., murder detective Ted Williams mentioned the Monopoly cash within the backpack is the “killer enjoying video games with the authorities. All a part of a cat and mouse sport.”
“This killer knew they might extra seemingly than not discover the backpack, and he’s leaving breadcrumbs to let [the] authorities know that he’s in management, not them,” he mentioned.
