Officials Insist ‘Net Is Tightening’ on Assassin Who Shot UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive, as Manhunt Enters Day 5
As the search persists, left-leaning press and social media users are rushing to justify and celebrate the murder.

As the national manhunt for the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, Brian Thompson, enters its fifth day, a national firestorm has erupted as some rush to justify, and even celebrate, the killer’s actions.
The left-leaning New York Magazine published an article this weekend arguing that the killing was “inevitable” and noting that to some the shooter is “more folk hero than murderer.” The article echoed what many on social media are saying, as the Sun has reported, as users unleashed a torrent of anger at the healthcare industry for letting patients suffer and suggesting that Thompson’s death was deserved. Another leftist outlet, the Daily Kos, is celebrating the shooting suspect as the “co-pay killer.”
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