Last week, the CEO of United Healthcare, a major insurance company, was shot and killed in Midtown Manhattan.

And the story, in subsequent search for his killer, has captivated the nation.

Meantime developing now, a manhunt is underway in the deadly shooting of United Health Care's CEO.

He was shot and killed this morning outside of a New York City hotel.

It has the kind of makings of like a thriller.

You know, this top executive is in the middle of Midtown Manhattan, in the middle

of holiday season, and he is gunned down by an assassin in the sort of pre-dawn darkness.

That's our colleague Joshua Chaffin, who's been covering the story.

Somebody with a pistol with a silencer who seemed to know what they were doing, and it's utterly mysterious as to the story. Somebody with a pistol with a silencer who seemed to know what they were doing and it's utterly

mysterious as to what has happened, why this has happened.

And then, yesterday.

We begin with that breaking news out of Pennsylvania after a six-day manhunt, a man is

in custody in connection with the murder of the United Healthcare CEO.

Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, was arrested hundreds of miles away from the scene of the crime,

Adam McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He's been charged with murder.

But the story is far from over.

There's yet another layer to the story, which is the response from the public and the

deep, deep anger at the health care system, at the health insurers in particular.

And so we've actually seen a case where you have

a murdered executive who's a father of two. And yet you have all sorts of sympathy online for the

killer, which is unusual. Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Ryan Knutzen. It's Tuesday, December 10th.

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