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The FBI had joined the investigation into the brazen murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of a luxury Manhattan hotel, the bureau confirmed Friday.
The manhunt for the assassin who killed Thompson outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown has expanded beyond the five boroughs and perhaps the tri-state area as the NYPD announced that they believe the suspect has left the Big Apple.
“The FBI is assisting the NYPD with the investigation,” a bureau spokesperson said.
The FBI put out a wanted poster Friday night of surveillance images of the suspect previously released by the NYPD and are offering up to a $50,000 award for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said during a media blitz earlier Friday that the suspect was seen near the Port Authority bus center on West 178th street about an hour after the Wednesday morning shooting.
“Those buses are interstate,” Kenny said “That’s why we believe he may have left New York City.”
“We have video of him entering the Port Authority Bus Terminal. We don’t have any video of him exiting so we believe he may have gotten on a bus.”
The suspect’s face can be seen in security camera footage obtained from an Upper West Side hostel where believe he stayed before the shooting.
The brazen killer was also seen at a Starbucks, where he purchased coffee, water, and protein bars, police and sources have said.
The NYPD says it recovered a water bottle believed to have been dropped by the masked gunman as he fled from the shooting.
The water bottle, along with a coffee cup possibly used by the gunman, were recovered by police and are being tested for DNA evidence.
