A man has come forward with an astounding claim: he claims that Citi Bike’s tracking information may have helped him track down the assassin who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
In a shocking post, Riley, a data scientist who goes by @rtwlz on X, disclosed that he has been harvesting Citi Bike data every minute and that he is able to see the precise location of individual bikes.
I am fairly confident of where the United Healthcare assassin escaped to. He escaped on an electric Citibike, according to police.
I happen to continuously scrape Citibike data every minute, so I can see where individual bikes go.
The only northbound Citibike to leave within…
— Riley (@rtwlz) December 4, 2024
The worst part, according to him, is that the sole northbound Citi Bike that departed within ten minutes of the shooting near the Hilton hotel where Thompson was entering did so at 6:44 AM and went directly to a place at Madison Ave & 82nd St at 6:52 AM that same day.
4 AM and went directly to a place at Madison Ave & 82nd St at 6:52 AM that same day. Riley posted a screenshot of a map that shows the route, which seemed to support his claim.
While it was an E Bike it doesn’t look like it was a citibike.
CNN is reporting that according to an unnamed source in law enforcement, the person who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan fled on an e-bike, but not a Citi Bike, as NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenney previously said during a press conference.
Detectives are already on the lookout for the UnitedHealthcare CEO murderer
Whether Riley alerted detectives to his post or they found it on their own is still unknown. Even though the Citi Bike lead is being described as “small,” police enforcement is actively investigating it and a number of other leads in their quest for information.
Investigators are sifting through video from the NYPD’s “Ring of Steel” cameras, which are positioned around Manhattan. It’s simple to follow a suspect from block to block because there are so many cameras, particularly in the Midtown region.
Police are quite positive that they will be able to follow the suspect’s actions from beginning to end and that their face is visible throughout the CCTV film.
The disturbing security footage was first released by the NYPD outside the Hilton hotel on Wednesday morning. A masked gunman can be seen in the video approaching from behind 50-year-old Thompson, drawing a revolver, and firing at least three times from a distance of less than ten feet. Then he disappeared down the other side of the street into an alley.
Flip the page for the shooting video.
