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Police Capture Suspect in CEO's Killing

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The suspected gunman in the killing of a health insurance CEO is apprehended in Pennsylvania. Syrian refugees come streaming back into Damascus following the exile of Bashar al-Assad. And the Marine who choked a man to death on the New York City subway is acquitted by a jury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, December 10th, and police say the country's most wanted fugitive has been found.

0:06.3

You start here.

0:09.6

Days after a health insurance executive was guns down in New York, there is now an arrest.

0:15.2

They are convinced this is the suspect they've been looking for.

0:19.1

How cops say they found him hundreds of miles away.

0:22.5

Bashar al-Assad is out, so now Syrians are flooding back in.

0:26.7

For so many years, Syria was a fortress.

0:30.1

Now, we're just driving straight in.

0:32.6

Our team is on the ground in Damascus, where there's jubilation and concerns about what comes next.

0:38.7

And another accusation of vigilantism ends in a dramatic acquittal.

0:42.9

Which makes you say, wait a second. What just happened here?

0:47.0

Why jurors said a minutes-long chokehold wasn't enough for a conviction.

0:53.2

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

0:56.6

I'm Brad Milky.

1:03.5

Years from now, the reason many Americans will remember the killing of health insurance CEO

1:08.5

Brian Thompson is not just because he was the head of United

1:11.9

Healthcare. It's not just because he was assassinated, guns down in the street on his way

1:16.9

into an investor conference. Eventually, people might not remember the circuitous route the alleged

1:21.5

shooter took to evade police detection. What everyone will remember is how Americans reacted to the news.

1:28.3

Usually people say things like our thoughts and prayers, but people are saying things like our thoughts and co-pays.

1:33.3

Some online commenters started describing this murder as a denial of care to make a play on health care jargon.

1:40.3

Some gave him nicknames, bestowing a mantle of righteousness on him for standing up to a health care system.

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