Man with gun interrogated in Pennsylvania

Police in Pennsylvania are questioning a man Monday in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, NBC News reported.

According to NBC, the man was found with a weapon similar to the one a masked gunman used to kill Thompson, 50, in New York City last Wednesday.

The unknown man was also in possession of a silencer and a fake New Jersey ID.

Police approached the man after receiving tips from customers at a McDonald’s restaurant who thought he was suspicious.

The New York Police Department had previously said that a person of interest wanted for questioning in the case was staying at a Manhattan hostel before Thompson’s shooting after checking in with a fake New Jersey ID.

The New York police are on their way to Altoona, Pennsylvania, where the man is being questioned.

The development in the case came on the same day Thompson’s funeral was scheduled to take place in Minnesota.

It is not known whether the man being questioned in Altoona is the same person previously seen in surveillance footage of a person involved in the murder previously released by the NYPD.

Thompson’s company, which is a division of UnitedHealth Groupis the largest private payer of health insurance services in the United States.

The CEO was on his way to an investor meeting for UHG at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan early Wednesday morning when a gunman shot him from behind.

The suspect then fled the area on his bicycle and cycled to nearby Central Park.

The NYPD said the suspect was seen leaving the park on foot, about 20 blocks north of the shooting, and that he then took a taxi north to the Washington Heights neighborhood, where he was last seen leaving the bus station the Port Authority entered.

Police also said the person is believed to have arrived in New York City on a bus from Atlanta on November 24, immediately went to the Hilton that same night and walked the surrounding streets for about half an hour.

– Tom Winters of NBC News and Jonathan Dienst of WNBC contributed to this report

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