My speculation is a Venn diagram. In one very large circle is people whose loved ones have been wronged by this insurance company. There’s an overlapping circle of people whose loved ones with insurance from this company who have died badly. And there’s a third, very small circle of people who work as professional assassins.
The killer may be from the intersection of the three circles: a professional killer whose wife, or mother, or brother, had a claim denied. Or maybe the killer was hired by someone already involved in organized violent crime whose loved one died.
As for grief? I’m not going to dance on the grave, because I’m just not much of a grave-dancer. But around 170,000 people died yesterday. We’re not hearing about this death because he was a good guy, but because he was rich and because he died dramatically. I’ll mourn his death, but he’s got to get in a line of 170,000 deaths to mourn, and he’ll be near the back.
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you [ed: health insurance executives]. If you let my daughter go now [ed: cover her surgery] that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.
Nobody grieves for random strangers. That’s not a thing that exists.
But according to you being ambushed and assassinated on the streets of NYC for being the CEO of a company who may have denied an insurance claim is completely unremarkable and not very different to the tens of thousands of people who died peacefully in their sleep of old age yesterday? No word of condemnation, sympathy for the family, nothing?
That’s what I came in here to say. A pro would know where all the cameras were, would not have bought water and snacks at Starbucks, would not have dropped a phone, even if it was a burner. A pro would appear out of nowhere and vanish, not hop a bike. My humble opinion is the CEO has the goods on something or someone big and was murdered to keep him quiet.
One of the commentators commented that the bike was actually quite effective:
“The e-bike is actually a shockingly effective tool in New York City because of the traffic… they can weave in and out of traffic even if he was being pursued by a police-marked vehicle.”
Faster than on foot, able to navigate the streets, and got him quickly to Central Park which is a big open area with fewer security cams. His trail ended there.
Maybe, maybe not. The massive and chaotic environment of that area certainly makes it easy to just fade into nothing. After all, they have no idea where he is or what he looks like (aside from the pic from Starbucks, which as I mentioned is what makes me think not a pro)
