Last week, the CEO of United Healthcare, a major insurance company, was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan.
And the story in subsequent search for his killer has captivated the nation.
Meantime, developing now a manhunt is underway in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare's CEO.
He was shot and killed this morning outside of a New York City hotel.
It has the kind of makings of like a thriller, you know, this top executive is in the middle of midtown Manhattan in the middle of holiday season and he is gunned down by an assassin in the sort of pre dawn darkness.
That's our colleague Joshua Chaffin who's been covering the story.
Somebody with a pistol, with a silencer who seemed to know what they were doing.
And it's utterly mysterious as to what has happened, why this has happened.
And then yesterday we begin with that breaking news out of Pennsylvania.
After a six day manhunt, a man is in custody in connection with the murder of the United Healthcare CEO.
Luigi Mangione, a 26 year old Ivy League graduate, was arrested hundreds of miles away from the scene of the crime at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
He's been charged with murder.
But the story is far from over.
There's yet another layer to the story which is the response from the public and the deep, deep anger at the healthcare system, at the health insurers in particular.
And so we've actually seen a case where you have a murdered executive who's a father of two, and yet you have all sorts of sympathy online for the the killer, which is unusual.
Welcome to the Journal, our show about money, business and power.
I'm Ryan knudson.
It's Tuesday, December 10th.
Coming up on the show, the murder of a health insurance CEO.
And what we know about the alleged killer, the CEO of United Healthcare was a man named Brian Thompson.