The masked gunman wanted in connection with the ambush shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Wednesday morning fled the crime scene using various modes of transportation before police believe he got on a bus out of the Big Apple, authorities told Fox News.
Police traced his route from the crime scene near 54th Street and Sixth Avenue up to Central Park, which he exited at 77th Street and Central Park West, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told Fox News Friday.
Kenny’s boss, new NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, added that investigators have picked up an abundance of video and digital evidence in addition to physical evidence they hope can lead them to the killer.
“We actually have a tremendous amount of forensic evidence in this case that we’ve collected- DNA evidence, fingerprint evidence, which is all at the lab now being processed,” she told Fox News Friday.
That could include a sample from a drink the killer discarded near the scene and a dropped burner phone, which police recovered a few steps away.
He walked with the bike to Columbus Avenue and then ditched it in favor of a taxi, which he took to an uptown bus terminal, where investigators found video of him entering about an hour after the murder.
He entered the park wearing a backpack and emerged without it, prompting the NYPD to spend most of Friday searching for evidence. They found the backpack over the weekend, reportedly stuffed full of Monopoly money, and sent dive teams to ponds in the park.
Authorities are now conducting an interstate manhunt for the suspect, whose identity has not been made public.
