Who was Brian Thompson? UnitedHealth CEO shot dead in NYC [Video]

MINNETONKA, Minn. — Brian Thompson, CEO of Minnetonka-based UnitedHealthcare, is dead after he was fatally shot while attending the company’s annual investor conference in New York City Wednesday. 

New York City police say Thompson was killed in a “brazen, targeted attack.” In a press conference late Wednesday morning, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney said the gunman showed up outside the New York Hilton five minutes before Thompson walked up, approached and fired multiple shots, then escaped on foot before jumping on an eBike. 

The last time he was spotted was riding through Central Park.  

“Brian was a wonderful person with a big heart and who lived life to the fullest,” his wife Paulette Thompson told KARE 11’s Lou Raguse. “He will be greatly missed by everybody. Our hearts are broken and we …