CEO of UnitedHealthcare had received threats, wife tells NBC News NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

The UnitedHealthcare CEO shot and killed outside a Manhattan hotel in a “targeted” attack Wednesday morning had received multiple threats, his wife told NBC News.

Brian Thompson, 50, was shot in the back and calf outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in what police officials described as a “premeditated, preplanned, targeted attack” against the insurance giant CEO.

Thompson was shot around 6:45 a.m. as he walked to the Hilton Midtown from where he was staying at a nearby hotel. UnitedHealth Group was set to hold an investor day at the Hilton on Wednesday but canceled it after reports of the shooting, CNBC reports.

Thompson’s wife, Paulette Thompson, told NBC News that the executive told her “there were some people that had been threatening him.” She said she didn’t have details, but suggested they may have involved issues with insurance coverage.

“Speaking to other employees that traveled with him to New York, it doesn’t seem like he had a security …