Police are questioning a man in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, they told CNN two police officers.
Based on a tip, police stopped a person traveling on a bus and recovered a silencer and a number of fake IDs, one of the officers added.
The suspect was arrested at a McDonald’s after an employee thought he looked like the man wanted in photos released by the NYPD, calling authorities to the scene, multiple law enforcement sources told CNN.
Altoona police responded to the call and arrested the man, who they say is 26 years old, and searched him.
In the search, they found a gun with a silencer — a device that muffles the sound of a firearm — like the one used in the homicide and several fake identities, including one that the New York Police Department believes was used by the suspect in the homicide. city.
The man was in possession of some documents that investigators also want to examine and which could be related to the motive for the crime.
Altoona police are waiting for New York Police Department detectives, who are on their way.
This content was originally published in Man is questioned in investigation into the murder of a CEO in the USA, sources say on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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