UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot

[George K]

@Renauda said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

Perp looked unhurried and calmly professional in the video.

Indeed. He waited for the vic to walk by and shot him in what appears to be the leg, then more in the torso.

[Horace]

I have found almost no sympathy for this guy anywhere on social media. I think America is united in its hatred of our health insurance system.

[Mik]

@Renauda said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

Perp looked unhurried and calmly professional in the video.

Very. Looked like he had a suppressor too. Not random.

[89th]

Yeah he had to “cock” the gun between each shot. Yes 3-4 shots. I have to run an errand later, will drive by his house. I wonder if there is a cop outside of it now.

[Jolly]

@89th said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

Yeah he had to “cock” the gun between each shot. Yes 3-4 shots. I have to run an errand later, will drive by his house. I wonder if there is a cop outside of it now.

He wasn't cocking the gun, he was clearing a jam. Looks like a pistol, maybe small caliber. (I don't see a lot of muzzle rise and I don't see the upward flash of a compensator. So if it's small caliber with a suppressor, there's definitely a paper trail. Especially on the suppressor.

He's not a pro. Bad location. Bad shooting. Too many cameras.

[George K]

@Jolly said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

he was clearing a jam.

Also, unless I heard incorrectly, there were 3 live rounds at the scene in addition to the brass.

[George K]

Link to video

[89th]

@89th said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

Yeah he had to “cock” the gun between each shot. Yes 3-4 shots. I have to run an errand later, will drive by his house. I wonder if there is a cop outside of it now.

No cop. Just about 6 cars. I presume family and friends.

[George K]

I don't understand why he put a suppressor on the pistol. According to RUnkle (in the video), that might have been the cause of the gun misfiring.

[jon-nyc]

@Horace said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

I have found almost no sympathy for this guy anywhere on social media. I think America is united in its hatred of our health insurance system.

I’ve seen too many jokes about whether he was waiting to get his treatment approved when he died. I’ve not seen the glee which I’m sure is there from haters. Because I’ve gone out of my way not to look.

[jon-nyc]

What an age we live in that 12 hours after the guy is assassinated there’s a random dude breaking down the video with 1000s of views.

[jon-nyc]

When Reagan was shot in 81 all we got was a slo-mo video on infinite loop.

[jon-nyc]

Back to the shooting, how was the guy expecting him to be out on the sidewalk at 6:45am?

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

a random dude

Not really. I started following Runkle during the Johnny Depp/Kyle Rittenhouse trials.

He has over a hundred thousand followers on X and more than a quarter million on YouTube.

[jon-nyc]

Fair enough

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

Fair enough

He also REALLY knows guns. He's a firearm defense attorney in Canada (Edmonton), and has argued cases before the Supreme Court in Canada.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

I don't understand why he put a suppressor on the pistol. According to RUnkle (in the video), that might have been the cause of the gun misfiring.

Possibly, because the gases don't bleed the same way. Besides, for a suppressor to be at its best, you need subsonic ammo, which has to be loaded down in almost all cases. Depending on the pistol, some are a lot more finicky about pressure than others. At the least, you should probably put in different weight recoil springs or buffers.

Pistols silence better than revolvers, because of the cylinder gap. Some guns just won't work with suppressors. An M1 carbine will blow a suppressor apart (don't ask me how I know) because the .30 carbine round is a hot pistol round in truth and generates a good deal of gas to work the action

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

Back to the shooting, how was the guy expecting him to be out on the sidewalk at 6:45am?

People are creatures of habit? Or he knew the victim's meeting schedule and staked out the site?

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

Back to the shooting, how was the guy expecting him to be out on the sidewalk at 6:45am?

I've read one report that he was there all night long, waiting. That would be a bit suspicious, no?

[Renauda]

@Jolly

He's not a pro. Bad location. Bad shooting. Too many cameras.

Okay, so he was a nonchalant and cold blooded amateur with a firearm he ought not to have had possession of in the first place.