URGENT: The CEO of UnitedHealthcare - the largest private health insurance company in America - was just shot and killed in Manhattan in an apparent assassination

New York City police say Brian Thompson, who became the insurer's top executive in 2021, appears to have been targeted in this morning's attack

Brian Thompson, the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare, the massive and powerful Minnesota-based health insurer, was shot to death in an apparent targeted killing in midtown Manhattan this morning.

At roughly 6:45 a.m., Thompson was shot outside at a Hilton hotel on 53rd Street and 6th Avenue - the center of midtown Manhattan, and only a few hun…