# UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in Manhattan \[breaking news: 2024-12-04\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news\ **Created:** [December 4, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-in-manhattan-breaking-news-2024-12-04/1011159 "2024-12-04T16:11:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 133
**Author:** ![El\_Famous\_Burrito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_famous_burrito/32/3954_2.png) [@El\_Famous\_Burrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Famous_Burrito)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-in-manhattan-breaking-news-2024-12-04/1011159/133 "2024-12-05T05:34:10Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I wouldn’t wager we’re in the era of [The Propaganda of the Deed](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_deed) 2.0. I wouldn’t make that wager either… but I’ll say that I _wish_ we were entering such an era. It would do this country some good. Happy to take further thoughts to the spinoff threads. I think it’s overwhelmingly likely (99%) that the perpetrator is: 1) a pissed-off policyholder/family member of a policyholder, or 2) a disgruntled UHC employee. I’ll give 1% to the other possibilities floated here – gambling debt! business rival! jilted lover! – which, frankly, strike me as fantastical (and a gross violation of Occam’s razor, to boot). And if it proves to be door #1 – pissed off policyholder – let me further hypothesize that The Propoganda of the Deed will indeed turn out to be a secondary motive. (With the primary motive, of course, being the whole pissed off/revenge thing.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-in-manhattan-breaking-news-2024-12-04/1011159)._