Pennsylvania police are questioning a man in connection with the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, NBC News reports.
According to NBC, the gun the man was carrying was similar to the gun used when a masked gunman killed 50-year-old Thompson in New York City last Wednesday.
New York police were en route to Altoona, Pennsylvania, where the man was being questioned.
On the same day the case progressed, Thompson’s funeral was scheduled to be held in Minnesota.
It was unclear whether the man being questioned in Altoona was the same person seen in surveillance footage previously released by the New York Police Department of people of interest in the murders.
Thompson Corporation is UnitedHealth Groupthe largest private payer of health insurance benefits in the United States.
Brian Thompson, CEO, UnitedHealthcare
Courtesy: UnitedHealth Group
The CEO was on his way to UHG’s Investor Day meeting early Wednesday morning at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Manhattan when a gunman shot him in the back.
– tom winter NBC News’ Jonathan Dienst and WNBC’s Jonathan Dienst contributed to this report
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