A New York Police Division dive group trawled a Central Park pond Saturday, looking for extra leads within the manhunt for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murderer. Â
The divers have been seen behind an space cordoned off with police tape beside Bethesda Fountain in a physique of water generally known as the Lake close to the park’s boathouse.
A screenshot from surveillance footage launched by the NYPD reveals the alleged suspect needed within the taking pictures loss of life of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (NYPD Crime Stoppers)
Close to the bandshell and about 20 ft from one of many park’s crowded walkways, crime scene tape nonetheless surrounded the spot the place a backpack believed to belong to the shooter was discovered Friday.Â
Police have but to get better the weapon used within the taking pictures. A jacket and Monopoly cash have been discovered contained in the backpack, MSNBC reported.Â
Because the assault outdoors the Hilton Midtown at 6:46 a.m. Wednesday, particulars have come extra clearly into focus. The assailant arrived in New York Metropolis on a bus from Atlanta Nov. 24 and stayed at an AYH Hostel on the Higher West Facet.
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The day of the taking pictures, investigators already knew that the murderer fled by means of Central Park, getting there about 4 minutes after taking pictures Thompson. At 6:56 a.m., he exited the park once more at 77th Avenue on the Higher West Facet, in accordance with an in depth timeline given by Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny at a press convention Friday.
He was noticed once more on 86th Avenue, nonetheless on the bicycle, two minutes later. At 7:04 a.m., he was seen on foot, then getting right into a taxi cab.Â
Police consider he’s now not in New York Metropolis as a result of footage confirmed the cab dropping him off at Port Authority bus station. However detectives couldn’t discover footage of him leaving once more. The station serves routes that would have taken him to New Jersey, north towards Boston or south towards Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
An space in Central Park close to Rumsey Playfield in New York, N.Y., Saturday, Dec. 4, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox Information Digital)
The NYPD has been looking Central Park since Wednesday.Â
“It is enormous, and it is dense,” former NYPD Inspector Paul Mauro stated of Central Park. “My query on that was in the event that they used canine [to find the backpack].”
The NYPD first introduced that $10,000 was being supplied for info resulting in the suspect’s arrest and conviction. The FBI stated late Friday it was providing as much as $50,000 for info resulting in the arrest and conviction of the suspect.
