Brian Thompson shooting live updates: Major breakthrough in hunt for health care CEO’s assassin

Police have searched a hostel in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan where they believe the suspect had been staying.

Sources told CNN on Thursday morning that detectives obtained a search warrant for a property in the city.

NY1 reporter Ben Feurerherd said Thursday that a worker at the Kama Central Park Hostel was interviewed by uniformed police around 7am, and ‘showed him a photo of a hooded man with a backpack and asked if he recognized the person.’

‘He said no, and the cops left after about 2 mins,’ Feuerherd tweeted.

Insiders also told ABC News that the suspect was seen outside the Frederick Douglass Houses, a public housign project also in the Upper West Side, a 5am on the morning of the shooting.

With cops saying they are closing in on the killer, it comes as the force previously released a slate of surveillance images alongside a $10,000 reward.

NYPD sources revealed that detectives have obtained a usable image of the suspect’s face without a mask.

Cops previously released a series of images showing the suspect around Midtown Mnahattan before the slaying, however his face was obscured by a balaclava.

Detectives have not released the latest image of the suspect’s face.

Chilling footage captured the moment the gunman rode a bicycle through the streets of Manhattan on Wednesday morning after assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Detectives zeroed in on the path they believe the killer took when he fled the scene.

Officers had originally thought that the assailant fled on an electric Citi Bike near the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan.

But by early afternoon, spokesperson for the bike share operator Lyft said that police officials had informed them that it was not from their fleet.

Thompson was separated from his wife when he was shot dead outside Manhattan’s Hilton Hotel on Wednesday morning, it has been revealed.

The father-of-two, 50, was estranged from wife Paulette and the couple had been living in separate homes less than a mile apart in Maple Grove, Minnesota, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Thompson purchased the $1million home near his family home in 2018, according to public records, with neighbors telling the Journal that he spent much of his time traveling.

His wife Paulette, a practicing physical therapist, admitted in her first reaction after hearing of her husband’s death that he had been receiving threats.

She referenced a ‘lack of coverage.’ Despite the reported, threats,

New surveillance footage of the suspect reveals he exited a subway station nearby to the shooting, as cops continue to map out his movements.

The killer was seen in a new image first shared by the Washington Post emerging from the 57th Street F train station at 6:15am Wednesday.

Detectives say the killer then walked to a Starbucks around 100 feet away, and released images showing the suspect ordering at a counter with his face obscured by a balaclava.

The suspect lay in wait outside the Hilton until 6:46am, until he saw Thompson walk in front of the lobby.

Detectives with the NYPD revealed late on Wednesday that the assassin who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson left bullet casings reading ‘depose’, ‘deny’ and ‘defend.’

The cryptic words resemble the title of 2010 book ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ by author Jay M. Feinman, which details ‘why insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about itt.

With the search for the killer ongoing, the message has left it to cops to determine if they could hint at a motive for the slaying of the CEO.