Officers found Thompson on the ground outside the hotel with gunshot wounds to his back and right calf, according to Joseph Kenny, the police department’s chief of detectives. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital at 7:12 a.m.

Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning. Thompson was shot in the chest just after 6:45 a.m. outside the New York Hilton Midtown, according to the police report obtained by the New York Times. Thompson was then taken to Mount Sinai West in critical condition.