UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning in a “brazen, targeted attack” as he walked toward the company’s annual investor conference, New York police said.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in New York City on Wednesday in what officials are calling a targeted attack.

Chilling footage of the slaying of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson in front of a Manhattan hotel emerged Wednesday afternoon. The clip, captured by a security camera, showed the assassin open fire at the 50-year-old insurance executive at close range after he approached Thompson from behind on a sidewalk outside the Midtown Hilton.

Brian Thompson, CEO of insurance group UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot Wednesday morning in Manhattan in what New York police commissioner Jessica Tisch said was a "brazen, targeted attack," as of the early stages of the investigation.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in Manhattan early Wednesday morning in what police says appears to be a "brazen, targeted attack" on the insurance CEO. A masked gunman was "lying in wait" outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in Manhattan just before 6:45 a.

The gunman who fatally shot UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan waited for him for hours — then fled on a bicycle, according to police. Thompson, 50, was fatally shot as he approached the Hilton Hotel in midtown, police said.