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UPDATE: The link was omitted in error, as the item was posted here shortly after the story broke. There is much coverage. With the firm being headquartered in Minnesota, Strib covers.
ZeroHedge indicates the weapon had a silencer, and shows escape detail as police appear to have reconstructed it. A "video" link seems to have been taken down.
The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were discovered by detectives on the shell casings found at the scene where Brian Thompson, the CEO of major insurance group UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down, police sources told ABC News late Wednesday evening.
Thompson was shot to death at point-blank range in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning before he was set to attend an investor conference, according to police.
The masked gunman, who remains on the loose, carried out a "brazen, targeted attack" that was "premeditated," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference. But the motive remains unknown, police said.
NYPD detectives are working to determine whether the words were meant as a message from the shooter and a hint at his motive.
Suggestive of an insurance claim in dispute, the words surely were intentional. MSN has more:
The suspect fled on foot into an alley, where a phone believed to be linked to the shooter was recovered, police sources told ABC News.
He then fled on a bike and he was last seen riding into Central Park at 6:48 a.m., police said.
Detectives are working to determine whether the suspect had prepositioned the bike somewhere close by, according to sources.
Police believe a water bottle and candy wrapper left near the shooting scene are linked to the shooter and investigators are running tests to determine if there are any usable fingerprints or DNA, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
The shooter was seen on video at 5 a.m. the morning of the shooting outside Frederick Douglass Houses, a public housing project on the Upper West Side, sources told ABC News.
[,,,] Detectives believe the gunman is not a professional killer, sources said.
The FBI, which has the most sophisticated technology for retrieving usable data from cellphones, is helping with the investigation, the sources said.
In the apparently affluent locale there has been recovered much surveillance footage of the assailant. Of the three casing words, "depose" suggests a deposition in some litigation context might have been taken of the shooter, or a claimant close to the shooter. The authorities likely are chasing all leads.
Beyond this 12/5 update info, Crabgrass is leaving the story to other sources.