UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 15:28 last edited by
One more in the W column for community notes.
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 15:40 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:
The manifesto.
I guess that's about what everybody was imagining it might be.
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 15:46 last edited by
As circumstantial evidence goes, it’s pretty damning.
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 16:05 last edited by
"Almost TOO perfect." -the internet
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@LuFins-Dad said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:
Ahhh, @89th had mentioned living close to the CEO. I haven’t had my coffee yet… that’s what you get…
Yeah the CEO actually had 2 houses, was separated from his wife apparently. I found his 2nd house just last night... they are both within a mile of me, although his houses are each like $1.3 million.
But you know what, the house above is $800,000....I think the perp was living with his parents? Not sure.
wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 16:49 last edited by@89th said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:
Yeah the CEO actually had 2 houses, was separated from his wife apparently. I found his 2nd house just last night... they are both within a mile of me, although his houses are each like $1.3 million.
Just drove by them both. They each have a red storage bin turned upside down near the sidewalk with a note taped on. I didn't stop to read them but imagine it's the "please respect our privacy in this time..." standard stuff. The 1st house actually had 3 black SUVs out front, only one of which was marked as city police, but they were all next to each other (side by side by side... blocking almost the whole street) with windows down talking, as cops often do when they pull up to another officer's vehicle to chat. So I yelled "WHO WANTS MCDONALDS!?" to them, but they didn't think that was funny. (Kidding about the last part)
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 17:08 last edited by
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@89th said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:
Yeah the CEO actually had 2 houses, was separated from his wife apparently. I found his 2nd house just last night... they are both within a mile of me, although his houses are each like $1.3 million.
Just drove by them both. They each have a red storage bin turned upside down near the sidewalk with a note taped on. I didn't stop to read them but imagine it's the "please respect our privacy in this time..." standard stuff. The 1st house actually had 3 black SUVs out front, only one of which was marked as city police, but they were all next to each other (side by side by side... blocking almost the whole street) with windows down talking, as cops often do when they pull up to another officer's vehicle to chat. So I yelled "WHO WANTS MCDONALDS!?" to them, but they didn't think that was funny. (Kidding about the last part)
wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 17:18 last edited by@89th LOL
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 19:08 last edited by
Anyone think it’s strange that this anti-corporate Kaczynski fan was eating at a McDonald’s?
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Anyone think it’s strange that this anti-corporate Kaczynski fan was eating at a McDonald’s?
wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 19:08 last edited by@jon-nyc said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:
Anyone think it’s strange that this fucking moron was eating at a McDonald’s?
Not really
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 19:09 last edited by
That’s true. It’s the same crowd that posts about oppression from phones made by child slaves.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 01:15 last edited by
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That’s true. It’s the same crowd that posts about oppression from phones made by child slaves.
wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 01:20 last edited by@jon-nyc said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:
That’s true. It’s the same crowd that posts about oppression from phones made by child slaves.
That argument doesn't really play out. Organized rebellions, radicals, terrorists and crackpots have a lot in common with everyone else in that they aren't universally consistent with living out their values.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 04:22 last edited by
I get his position. It is informed by a situation much worse than most people ever deal with, but we’ve dealt with similar runarounds - a different and contradictory story every time you talk to them. It’s incredibly frustrating even when it’s relatively minor health issues. Couple extreme suffering with it and one can understand his anger. Still, not how he expressed it. This kid had a top education and could have chosen to fight within the law.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 11:35 last edited by
What surprises me is that he chose midtown manhattan to do the deed.
How many different cameras caught site of him? He could have done this in suburban Minneapolis, confronting the guy when was out for a run or something.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 12:33 last edited by
Agreed, and keeping the IDs and gun, it's as if he wanted to be caught, but also wanted to be snarky by leaving his backpack in Central Park with the monopoly money. Part of me thinks he snapped a bit after his back surgery and/or meds, or mushrooms. Or maybe watching too much Mr. Robot or other TV shows that glorify fighting capitalism.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 12:34 last edited by
I also wonder, if he kept the gun because he was researching who his next CEO victim might be. I know he was on his laptop in the McDonalds when they approached. All speculation of course.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 12:45 last edited by
If that’s me at the McDonald’s, I’d be looking to see what the cops know so I can continue to evade them.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 12:47 last edited by jon-nyc 12 Nov 2024, 12:47
By the way, speaking of computers, what’s it like for someone his age who doesn’t remember a day when he didn’t have internet access to suddenly be in prison without his laptop and phone?
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I also wonder, if he kept the gun because he was researching who his next CEO victim might be. I know he was on his laptop in the McDonalds when they approached. All speculation of course.
wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 12:49 last edited by Doctor Phibes 12 Nov 2024, 12:49@89th said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:
I also wonder, if he kept the gun because he was researching who his next CEO victim might be. I know he was on his laptop in the McDonalds when they approached. All speculation of course.
Maybe he was researching how old you need to be to no longer qualify for a Happy Meal, or how to work the over-complicated drinks machine.
It doesn't really matter. He's just another guy who thinks he can make a difference by killing somebody. Obviously, the only difference he's really made is to the family of the dead CEO.