Newly-released images of the suspect within the deadly taking pictures of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson sparked wild conspiracies on-line Thursday — together with that the potential killer bears an eerie resemblance to film begins like Timothee Chalamet and Jake Gyllenhaal.
The grinning suspected gunman — accused of taking pictures the manager execution-style on a Midtown avenue Wednesday — was unmasked Thursday in surveillance digital camera footage launched by the NYPD that some observers in comparison with a Hollywood headshot.
“We got him, it’s Jake Gyllenhaal!!!” one X consumer quipped.
“Jake Gyllenhaal wanted in connection with United CEO assassination,” one other wrote subsequent to a picture of the smile-flashing accused shooter.
Others stated the alleged murderer was a lookalike of the 28-year-old star of “Dune.”
“The United Healthcare CEO killer is …. Timothee Chalamet??” a commenter wrote on X — as one other joked, “Did Timothee Chalamet kill the United Healthcare CEO?”
The surveillance photographs launched by the NYPD confirmed the suspect, who has not been named, flashing a smile with a black masks hanging from his chin.
Cops had beforehand launched a photograph of the hooded man standing at a Starbucks counter at West 56th Road and Sixth Avenue, simply minutes away from the Hilton lodge the place he allegedly shot Thompson, 50, at point-blank vary.
The accused killer was sporting the identical grayish hoodie he wore when he’s believed to have fired repeatedly at Thompson on Wednesday morning because the sufferer walked as much as the lodge.
Police stated the gunman fired a number of bullets earlier than fleeing rapidly on foot after which grabbing an e-bike to finish his getaway.
